LOL @ HD-DVD

[mollipen]

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

The BS is trying to justify piracy with BS excuses.

Anyhow, this is from the homepage of the AVS Forums today. This seems to play into the problem people were having with the HDMI output, because that goes through this Genesis chip, where as say 1080i doesn't.

Today is an all Blu-ray news day, with the latest on Samsung's BD-P1000, the status of Sony's PlayStation 3 and why both next-gen DVD systems are missing the crucial factor needed to succeed: content.

First off is news that early Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray players shipped with a chip problem, according to AVGuide.com (via HDBeat), which spoke to Sony and Samsung execs about the issue.
Don Eklund, executive vice president of advanced technologies at Sony Pictures, noticed that the player's image did not match the quality of the master tapes from which the Blu-ray titles were encoded. He contacted Samsung, whose engineers determined that the noise-reduction circuit in the player's Genesis scaler chip was enabled, causing the picture to soften significantly.

According to Jim Sanduski, senior vice president of marketing for Samsung's Audio and Video Products Group, "Samsung is currently working to revise the default settings on the noise-reduction circuit in the Genesis scaler chip to sharpen the picture. All future Samsung BD-P1000 production will have this revision and we are working to develop a firmware update for existing product."

Also, according to reports posted on the AVS Forum, Panasonic should have it's H.264 replication facility up soon, and the first titles produced by them should start hitting in September. Any discs produced at the Sony facility, however, will still be MPEG2, for whatever their stupid reason is. So, hopefully more studios will go through Panasonic.

[kingoffighters]

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

The dual layer disc holds 50 gigs right? That's like $1/gig, which isn't too bad for a new media and you can hold alot of crap on it.

[Wildkat]

Any discs produced at the Sony facility, however, will still be MPEG2, for whatever their stupid reason is. So, hopefully more studios will go through Panasonic.

Royalties.

Sony has tons involved in Mpeg-2, and none in .264


Sony will always use in house technology before using anyone elses stuff, consumers or quality be damned.

[Shin Johnpv]

the first direct HD-DVD and Blu-Ray comparrison is up thanks to Training day being released on both and in this case it's a win for HD-DVD I would put alot of that onto HD-DVD using the more efficient and modern VC-1 codec

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/trainingday.html

Some key things, it would seem that due to Space issues Warner had to drop the Dolby True HD and Dolby Digital Plus from the Blu Ray disc so it's only rocking standard dolby digital, the aspect ratio was off on the Blu Ray version and there were more compression artifacts

[Diff-chan]

the first direct HD-DVD and Blu-Ray comparrison is up thanks to Training day being released on both and in this case it's a win for HD-DVD I would put alot of that onto HD-DVD using the more efficient and modern VC-1 codec

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/trainingday.html

Some key things, it would seem that due to Space issues Warner had to drop the Dolby True HD and Dolby Digital Plus from the Blu Ray disc so it's only rocking standard dolby digital, the aspect ratio was off on the Blu Ray version and there were more compression artifacts

lol @ blu-ray.

[TobalRox]

Lame... I bought my first HD-DVD today... it's a dual one, just to future proof myself.

[gamevet]

the first direct HD-DVD and Blu-Ray comparrison is up thanks to Training day being released on both and in this case it's a win for HD-DVD I would put alot of that onto HD-DVD using the more efficient and modern VC-1 codec

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/trainingday.html

Some key things, it would seem that due to Space issues Warner had to drop the Dolby True HD and Dolby Digital Plus from the Blu Ray disc so it's only rocking standard dolby digital, the aspect ratio was off on the Blu Ray version and there were more compression artifacts

all three were released on HD DVD last month.

Sounds more like a poor conversion to me.

[Shin Johnpv]

Sounds more like a poor conversion to me.

No each one was mastered for it's particular format

Warner is not playing favorites and supporting both products to their fullest extent

Infact these 3 discs from warner while still not good as their HD-DVD brothers are some of the best PQ discs on Blu Ray

[Frogacuda]

Both formats are gay and pointless for movies. blu ray holds more data so win.

[Shin Johnpv]

Both formats are gay and pointless for movies. blu ray holds more data so win.

How are both gay and pointless for movies?

and right now Blu Ray holds less data untill they get their Dual Layer discs out if it ever happens

The quality of the video and audio on HD-DVD and Blu Ray is still much better than what your seeing on HD Cable and Satelite services