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The Espresso from On Demand Books brews you up a copy right fresh {Engadget}
Dec 21st 2006 10:36AM Cool concept, indeed!
I wonder if there are different text file transfers for longer books. For example, a lot of the Harry Potter books go well past 550 pages, but the formatting is with a larger font and spacing. If there were a print image or file with smaller fonts and spacing, then they may fit within that limit. Are they working on this as well?
Sony Pictures first three 50GB titles officially announced {Engadget HD}
Oct 9th 2006 2:39PM Xyzzy - HD-DVD discs have had lossless since their inception, remember, Phantom of the Opera was one of the first introduced back in April? Quite a few discs have TrueHD tracks. Firmware 2.0 allows its playback and the IME on discs like Batman Begins, Tokyo Drift, and Troy. So yeah, like HD-DVD already has. ;)
More details on Toshiba's European HD DVD launch {Engadget HD}
Sep 5th 2006 12:46PM @johnnyc, #13:
1) WRONG. Almost all BD titles currently out now are MPEG-2. Some future BD releases are slated to be MPEG-4 (H.264), but AVC is NOT currently used by both. In fact, neither of them is using it in the US right now. All US HD-DVDs (except some stray some obscure HD TV channel's shows, like one or two discs) are encoded in VC-1, NOT H.264. And those very stray few in HD-DVD are MPEG-2. Some titles in HD-DVD in Japan are H.264, but none in the US are at this time. Both formats are capable of reading all these formats, but again, both ARE NOT using this same codec at this time.
2) WRONG AGAIN. 1080i run through most displays that properly handle the 3:2 pulldown give you the EXACT information, bit by bit, as 1080p. Where's this "widely accepted" nonsense published? 1080i and 1080p are both superior to 720p.
Hopefully, you haven't mislead people who don't know any better. You're a FUDdy guy.
Fox announces first Blu-ray releases: 8 titles, BD-J, MPEG-4 AVC, 50GB {Engadget HD}
Aug 31st 2006 1:24PM Correction to above, I meant to say "Dolby TrueHD"
Fox announces first Blu-ray releases: 8 titles, BD-J, MPEG-4 AVC, 50GB {Engadget HD}
Aug 31st 2006 1:21PM I'm glad the advanced audio codecs and MPEG4 are finally being used, as well as BD-J. I'm afraid I REALLY disagree with the article when it states, though, that they're worth the $40 MSRP.
HD-DVD can already have long movies with great PQ (via VC-1), interactivity (iHD), and lossless audio (DTS TrueHD) without being that expensive. You shouldn't have to pay more for BD to get the equivalent quality of HD-DVD, they should be the same price.
If the PQ and AQ are at the same level, it makes no sense at all for one format to charge more for software and twice as much for the hardware.
