High Definition Optical Discs (Blu-ray and HD DVD)
Blu-Ray discs have 20 GB more space than HD-DVD, but does that equate to better sound/picture? Can lower bitrate video look better than higher bitrate video? Is lossless audio better than lossy audio? Find out on this weeks A/V Mythbusters 🙂 Highdefdigest The truth of the matter is that all video compression codecs have the same purpose, to accurately represent […]
Read moreIt didn’t take 10 years to crack BD+ like Richard Doherty, Media analyist with Envisioneering Group, said according to Home Media Magazin (July 8-14). "BD+, Unlike AACS, Which suffered a partial Hack Last Year, Won’t likely be breached for 10 years." Doherty said "and if so The damage would effect one film and one player." It took them less than […]
Read moreIt looks like the studios are not as entrenched in the format wars as we thought…. Floppyhead Due to licensing agreements, Blu-ray exclusive movies in North America are being sold as HD-DVDs in other parts of the world, and vice versa.
Read moreIts nice to see the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD camps take time out of their busy schedule of predicting each others’ imminent demise via press release to sit down together and do it in person. Video Business Supporters of the HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc high-definition formats locked horns at the HDTV DisplaySearch conference here Wednesday, but all participants ultimately agreed […]
Read moreArs Technica has an article on the New Harry Potter DVD also having the movie encoded for your computer and portable devices. This could help make movie libraries on PCs legit. ArsTechnica At the DVD Forum conference in Universal City, CA, Warner Home Video announced that it will release the new Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix DVD […]
Read moreMuch time has been spend bitching about the format wars. However, we must not forget that we are getting a few decent features like improved "Extras". Universal is taking a web 2.0’ish approach to their HD DVD extras. Users will be able to log onto a website and have access to a download center and U-shop. Of course some of […]
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Daewoo is the first to announce a standalone Blu-ray player that actually supports the Profile 1.1 and BD Live, essentially bringing Blu-ray’s interactive features into feature parity with HD DVD. It’s pretty slick looking to boot. RegHardware The player supports the full BD specification, including the ability to access BD Live online content, to present picture-in-picture material and deliver BD’s interactivity […]
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Finally one of the cheap Chinese vendors, as rumored earlier this year, has actually introduced an HD DVD player today. No MSRP details yet, nor are the exact specs, but it’s a pretty safe bet this is based on the Broadcom/MS SoC reference design and is the probably just the first of quite a few more vendors using the same […]
Read moreThis is by far the best anayisis of the format war i’ve read anywhere on the web. Doom9 At the advent of high definition, hardware makers and studios once again teamed up in two competing groups, but this time, despite negotiations to get a single format, no consensus was reached. Interestingly, when the two groups had come together before the […]
Read moreCheap dual-format readers are getting cheaper and cheaper :). Buffalo Japan will be selling an external unit for around $440 in Japan, hopefully by the holiday season they are under $250. This is the only way most people are going to enter the format war, you can count me in as well. Everything USB There is no HD DVD burning […]
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