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Troll_Bait
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Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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 Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 3:36 am Post subject: Blu-ray Vs. HD-DVD: Have to replace video libraries AGAIN?! |
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High-definition DVD market facing static
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Hollywood is hoping high-definition DVDs will reignite a slowing market for movies at home, but they have drawn mixed reviews from retailers and analysts due to technical issues and a bitter format war.
The competing formats, Sony Corp.-backed (6758.T) Blu-ray and Toshiba Corp.-championed (6502.T) HD-DVD, aim to provide better picture quality and interactive features, but some early viewers have been underwhelmed.
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One format is expected to win, just as VHS ultimately triumphed over Betamax in the video standards war. |
First VHS tapes. Then DVDs. In the near future, will we have to repurchase our favorite movies again?! |
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SuperHero
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 3:41 am Post subject: |
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| you wont' have to repurchase because the machines that play next generation DVDs will also be backwards compatible. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 3:58 am Post subject: |
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| SuperHero wrote: |
| you wont' have to repurchase because the machines that play next generation DVDs will also be backwards compatible. |
Well, if the format is truly mindblowing, videophiles will naturally want their favorite films in the best format available.
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JongnoGuru
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 4:58 am Post subject: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
| SuperHero wrote: |
| you wont' have to repurchase because the machines that play next generation DVDs will also be backwards compatible. |
Well, if the format is truly mindblowing, videophiles will naturally want their favorite films in the best format available.
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Perhaps others, but not me. The average DVD today (that is, the not-utterly-crap-pirated DVD) is already streets ahead of the average cinema experience in terms of image quality, especially if you're watching on a big-screen/projector setup. And even budget-priced 5.1 or 7.1 home-theatre systems now provide a better sound experience than the average cinema, because you're always ideally positioned and there's no chatter/distractions/farts from other movie-goers.
Whatever the next format could possibly give us isn't going to persuade me to upgrade my DVD library. Simply put, there's not enough realism left that I'm not already getting from DVD. "Blisteringly realistic image quality" or "cutting-edge special effects" -- those descriptions have zero to do with the kind of movies I like or why I like them. "oooo, but what about sci-fi movies??" Yeah well, I loathe watching sci-fi movies other than to laugh at them & the people who like them. |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:36 am Post subject: |
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And as well, just like those ridiculous, rip-off "20-bit CDs" that came out years ago, there will only be an improvement in the Hi-DVD if the original source is good. For old movies or most television shows the quality of a DVD is already higher than the original and there will be no improvement at all in a better format.
This could be a very welcome occasion if the media companies shoot themselves in the foot and the new formats tank. They push a new standard on the public to make some bucks and nobody buys it, because it doesn't offer the sort of improvement like the difference between DVD and VHS.
Personally, what's needed to me is to make DVDs much more rugged and durable. After all those silly 80s commercials of people playing frisbee with CDs, I find I have to really baby my DVD-Rs or my computer won't read them a year later.
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