Wow, dumbest thing I've heard in awhile. So those people who jumped on the HD bandwagon by purchasing a new cutting edge player for their home theater, based on the selling point "the best picture quality available" have been suckered. "..."Congratulations, you only thought you purchased the best possible movie playing machine for your home...What, you thought we'd give you the best quality right outta the gate? HAHAHA......."Explains why no one has been impressed with the video quality of any of the "new" movie disc formats. The early adopters just purchased a normal DVD player with a fancy new "HD-DVD" logo on it.
@rick....yeah, you could buy that apple thing.....or just get a dvd burner and copy your dvd without the warnings and commercials. sure its technically not legal....but i think that if i buy a dvd, i should be able to make a copy and store the original so that if something happens to the dvd, i can always go back to the original and make another copy...as opposed to buying the movie again.
"BR is using inferior codec"Somewhat misleading as both BR and HDDVD support MPEG2, VC1, and H.264. So at best, there would be no difference in quality between the two. However, according to Wikipedia, the first wave of BR movies used MPEG2 instead of the other, more efficient two which could explain why there was lower video quality.
mrzopSep 18, 2006
"will offer better picture quality than earlier models."Does that mean they play Blu-Ray now?Oooh Snap!
dan0368Sep 18, 2006
My upscaling dvd-player is doing a fine job on my new tv. I can wait this war out a couple of years.
mrgreen4242Sep 18, 2006
Ya, I'm holding out for sub-$200 as well... and HDDVD burners... and cheap HDDVD blanks... and HDDVDShrink... :p
v3rocitySep 18, 2006
Wow, dumbest thing I've heard in awhile. So those people who jumped on the HD bandwagon by purchasing a new cutting edge player for their home theater, based on the selling point "the best picture quality available" have been suckered. "..."Congratulations, you only thought you purchased the best possible movie playing machine for your home...What, you thought we'd give you the best quality right outta the gate? HAHAHA......."Explains why no one has been impressed with the video quality of any of the "new" movie disc formats. The early adopters just purchased a normal DVD player with a fancy new "HD-DVD" logo on it.
jeebugornSep 18, 2006
@rick....yeah, you could buy that apple thing.....or just get a dvd burner and copy your dvd without the warnings and commercials. sure its technically not legal....but i think that if i buy a dvd, i should be able to make a copy and store the original so that if something happens to the dvd, i can always go back to the original and make another copy...as opposed to buying the movie again.
mavereSep 19, 2006
"BR is using inferior codec"Somewhat misleading as both BR and HDDVD support MPEG2, VC1, and H.264. So at best, there would be no difference in quality between the two. However, according to Wikipedia, the first wave of BR movies used MPEG2 instead of the other, more efficient two which could explain why there was lower video quality.