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lyd
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Location: Lake Mills, Wi
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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| ecrabb wrote: | | won't even be the quality we're used to with satellite and cable. |
Maybe not. Cable is pretty heavily compressed, and only getting worse. I haven't seen any HD sat content in quite a while, but I suspect it is similar. I have seen a number of direct-comparison reviews lately that rate Apple HD above those options. Here's one with a lot of frame grabs.
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AnalogRocks
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Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| lyd wrote: | | ecrabb wrote: | | won't even be the quality we're used to with satellite and cable. |
Maybe not. Cable is pretty heavily compressed, and only getting worse. I haven't seen any HD sat content in quite a while, but I suspect it is similar. I have seen a number of direct-comparison reviews lately that rate Apple HD above those options. Here's one with a lot of frame grabs.
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I love this false quote:
It’s also worth noting that the Blu-Ray Disc’s biggest video and audio advantages are real, but will be lost on many HDTV users. Since the majority of HDTVs sold before 2007 were not capable of displaying true 1080p output—most were capped at 720p or 1080i—the superior video quality of the Blu-Ray versions of movies won’t be noticeable on such sets, and the difference between the Apple TV and Blu-Ray versions will be less noticeable. If you’re using a TV without the ability to display 1080p video—especially if you don’t have a receiver capable of decoding the Blu-Ray Disc’s DTS-HD signal—an Apple TV rental will be an almost complete substitute for renting the Blu-Ray.
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Haven't we proven this here? I know even if I watch an HD-DVD at 1024x768 on the projector I can tell the quality difference. Anyone else?
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MikeEby
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Location: Osceola, Indiana
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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| lyd wrote: | | ecrabb wrote: | | won't even be the quality we're used to with satellite and cable. |
Maybe not. Cable is pretty heavily compressed, and only getting worse. I haven't seen any HD sat content in quite a while, but I suspect it is similar. I have seen a number of direct-comparison reviews lately that rate Apple HD above those options. Here's one with a lot of frame grabs.
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I think thats what he is saying lyd, the quality is already marginal on cable now, and yes it does suck on DBS too. I think it will be some time before HD downloads are the norm, at least to maintain the quality of HD-DVD or BR.
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deronmoped
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The thing is most people will believe anything. They will think they are getting HD downloaded to them because they are told so. It will look OK on their small TV's so who's going to complain. They or the cable guy may even convince them that even if they know it isn't HD it looks good so why bother to spend the money on a disc. People want quick, easy and cheap. We have all seen this with the introduction of digital PJ's and I do not see it changing with how people get movies.
I think if we do not see a big enough move towards high definition disc's in the next couple of years, you may find there will still be a limited selection of movies that are produced in it. If the studios are not making enough sales/money of these HD discs, they may just opt to offer only the blockbuster ones in it or the ones they think they can sell enough of. Pulling the rug out from under the people that bought into HD DVD players/discs may back fire on them too. There is going to be a lot of people pissed off that they have been burned and even with people that have not bought anything, they are going to take a look at the mess that was created and ask themselves if they want anything to do with it.
Instead of a battle to be king of the hill, they should have just agreed that both formats can live side by side. Sale dual format players from the start and be done with it. They then could of concentrated on saturating the market with players and disc's, getting people away from SD DVD and used to buying HD and BR. All it is right now is one big mess, with no real winner. I mean the idea was to get people buying into a new format that the studios could make buco bucks on. It's not happening and technology moves so fast nowadays they do not have time to mess around.
Deron.
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voodoo7869
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Location: Chicago, IL USA
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just as a note toshiba just sent out a response that they are dropping hd-dvd they will still make the product for some time but will no longer be developing the tech anymore. the article is located here in the righthand collum http://www.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/ the article is called Toshiba to end HD-DVD production the war is over. I really liked hd-dvd better blu-ray is to easy to damage the disk and way to expensive.
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