Serenity on HD in March!
POSTED BY: SimonWho
UPDATED: Monday, January 9, 2006 19:46
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The HD-DVD players released by Toshiba, will play back standard DVD content. BluRay will be more expensive to produce because, as usual, it involves Sony and their proprietary technology. That is one of the main reasons I boycott Sony products and I'm sure why some of their products have ultimately failed though supposedly superior to the competition (Betamax and Minidisc anyone.) The discs cost more to make than the HD-DVD discs which more closely resemble standard DVDs. As far as using the PS3 as a player I can only say what a waste. Historically consoles do not perform well as video players when compared to stand-alone players (of reasonable quality of course) and we are talking about HiDef. I think people with larger HiDef displays will likely be disappointed by the quality of a PS3 video player platform. It ashame that the competing camps couldn't come to an agreement like they did with DVD. Thank you Sony.
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Well, the good news is that someone will rip it and make it available for download.
Also, new compression algorithms such as H.264 means that, once ripped, one will be able to compress down with a more efficient algorithm and burn to a regular DVD-R much as one can rip a DVD, re-encode and burn to CDROM right now.
It actually looks like an HD movie (just the movie and only one language sound) will be able to fit on a standard DVD-R with no noticeable reduction in quality.
Of course this DVD-R will only be playable by an actual computer and not a standard DVD player.
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Originally posted by 69rdrnr:
As far as using the PS3 as a player I can only say what a waste. Historically consoles do not perform well as video players when compared to stand-alone players (of reasonable quality of course) and we are talking about HiDef. I think people with larger HiDef displays will likely be disappointed by the quality of a PS3 video player platform. It ashame that the competing camps couldn't come to an agreement like they did with DVD. Thank you Sony.
It may not be a top-of-the-line player, but neither was the PS2, and that machine is credited in great part with the current DVD boom. Many, many people's first DVD player was their PS2. And, the fact is, not many people have HD sets yet, and probably won't for a few years, and those without won't be able to tell a difference.
"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."
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Originally posted by 20thCentFoxHater:
God, I sure hope they do, because I don't exactly want my 85 DVDs' Box sets to go to waste and be a thing of the past after only about 4 years of collecting.
If that happens, I'll be extremely pissed off.
my friend I have a ... record player. Just because a format is obsolete doesn't mean you can't play it anymore. And, lest we forget, there are Commodore 64s hooked up to the internet now. The past never dies, no matter how forgotten it may become.
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