Naughty america does it better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Advocate
Back on topic. HD sucks, digital distribution is the future.
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Naughty america does it better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Advocate
Back on topic. HD sucks, digital distribution is the future.
Sure, digital distribution is the future, but how long off is it? There needs to be faster downloads and much larger and cheaper storage. Until then, I will be happy to keep on buying HD DVD and BD.Quote:
Originally Posted by avatar
I think it right here, right now. Torrenting is huge and HDD are becoming less expensive all the time. The dl speeds are bad, but people I think are willing to wait. the dl speeds are only getting faster while torrenting is done by more and more people.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElCapitan
All it needs is the last peice of the puzzle, a device that will connect the media from your PC to your TV in a cheap, easy to use way that doesn't rely on using certain codecs (windows media center). If someone can release that device to the mainstream then they might have something.
Until then most people I think will stick to dvd. This is ancedotal, but no one I have ever met off the internet has given a shit about HD-DVD or BR. I think for most people that will be the case, and this "war" is being fought over the elitist videophiles, not the majority of people who just want to watch a movie.
But what do I know. I don't really follow this stuff so much.
Torrenting is a horrible and painfully slow way of downloading anything. HDDs aren't yet to the capacity where one can have a library of movies. We've been over this here though. The Key points were this, 1080p movies in a good bitrate are fucking HUGE, you're talking 15 - 20 gigs per movie. If you had 50 movies you're looking at 1 terabyte of storage, which is far far far from affordable right now. and thats for 50 movies, I have a 200 movie library. And again download speeds with news groups I can usually hit 1.1 - 1.5 megs a second which for right now is pretty damn good but it would still take 3 1/2 - 5 hours to download a full 1080p movie. Physical media just offers a higher quality picture and sound level than you can get with downloading. It will be that way for awhile too I bet. I built a home theater PC to play HD movies I download and most of them are in h264 format, 720p, and about 6 - 7mbps data rate. They look good, no where's near as good as full 1080p movies at like really nice and high bitrates like you get on Blu-Ray and HD-DVD though.Quote:
Originally Posted by avatar
I hate the Fifth Element.
I don't know. FTNA is okay. My first sex teacher and my best friends sister is good.Quote:
Originally Posted by avatar
But Big Tits round ass and Ball honeys are off the charts.
Porn decided VHS vs Betamax because before that, you had to go to an adult theater for it. These days we have teh intarnet. Porn won't matter in this format war, but neither will anything else for a good five to ten years (no way Joe Sixpack is going to consider upgrading any earlier), and by then we'll probably have something even better anyway.
HD-DVDs are getting bigger.
http://www.cepro.com/news/editorial/16862.html
If this works out well things are going to look pretty bad for Sony's camp. Well, you know, more so.Quote:
Fujii announced that the technical feasibility for a 51 GB, triple-layer HD DVD disc has been confirmed, with the standardization expected by the end of the year. Currently HD DVD discs are 15 GB per layer, but the capacity is currently being expanded to 17 GB. Single-layer Blu-ray discs are 25 GB, with dual-layers clocking in at 50 GB.
Unless they counter with their own triple-threat!
isnt blu-ray already hitting 200gb marks? Not to mention 50gb on a single layer?Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
Why don't you research it and get back to us.