LOL @ HD-DVD

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Originally Posted by Shin Johnpv

I think it's going to take more than a few years.

Just look at some numbers, even if an on-demand service offered a minimalist set of 300 movies (which in the grand scheme of things is a mere drop in the bucket compared to how many movies there are out there) at all times in HD with DTS or DD you're looking at needing to store 9 terabytes of data (average HD movie taking up about 20 - 30 gigs) then to meet the same level of picture and audio quality seen on HD-DVD or BR you have to stream these movies out at 15 - 30mbps rates to each house, along side cable tv, regular internet and VoIP. Which in some areas that amount of bandwidth would be possible thanks to fiber optics being in place but it's going to be awhile till the entire country is laid with fiber optics. And even then I would imagine they'll have to upgrade it to fiber optics running to each house and not just to the curb.

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That was the craziest thing I've ever read.

Or maybe I'm stoned.

I've heard rumors that Sony's latest batch of BR discs (Ultraviolet, some other one) look better than the initial release, but as I've seen none of the discs, I have no idea if that's true or not. Sony still needs to get their ass in gear and move away from MPEG2 though - for no other reason than I'd like Blu-Ray to take off due to it having less retarded region encoding than HD-DVD. (Though supposedly Toshiba's unit ignores region encoding...)

All region coding is retarded. It's just one more reason why I'd rather pirate than buy the original.

Yeah, uhm, region encoding sucks, but it doesn't give you a valid excuse to then turn to piracy.

If a publisher deliberately encodes a disc not to work in my region, and there's no domestic alternative, then they clearly don't want my money anyway.

One Blu-Ray single-layer recordable disc is $25. A dual layer disc is going to be $48. Ouch.

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Originally Posted by shidoshi

I've heard rumors that Sony's latest batch of BR discs (Ultraviolet, some other one) look better than the initial release, but as I've seen none of the discs, I have no idea if that's true or not. Sony still needs to get their ass in gear and move away from MPEG2 though - for no other reason than I'd like Blu-Ray to take off due to it having less retarded region encoding than HD-DVD. (Though supposedly Toshiba's unit ignores region encoding...)

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The rumors are true... all blu-ray I've seen looked like shit except for Ultraviolet.

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Originally Posted by kedawa

If a publisher deliberately encodes a disc not to work in my region, and there's no domestic alternative, then they clearly don't want my money anyway.

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Ferarri deliberately makes cars that aren't in my price range, so they clearly don't want my money. Thus, I'm allowed to just steal them!

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

One Blu-Ray single-layer recordable disc is $25. A dual layer disc is going to be $48. Ouch.

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To be fair, though, recordable DVDs were pretty expensive at first, as were recordable CDs. Like everything, they'll come down.

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Originally Posted by shidoshi

I've heard rumors that Sony's latest batch of BR discs (Ultraviolet, some other one) look better than the initial release, but as I've seen none of the discs, I have no idea if that's true or not.

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Ultra-violet looks good because it's allready a soft image (the image has some weird overall blur to the picture that was some style the director wanted) and it's pretty much very broad bright colors, it's almost on the verge of like animation, animation is really easy for encoders to handle cause it's simple broad colors, so UV looking good has more to do with the source Film than sony's encoding

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Originally Posted by shidoshi

Ferarri deliberately makes cars that aren't in my price range, so they clearly don't want my money. Thus, I'm allowed to just steal

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Oh please. Not this bullshit again. I thought it was well established that comparing unlawful duplication to theft is just absurd.