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Quote: Originally Posted by Walter Slocombe week ending 1/5/08, Blu-ray Disc player sales were at 15,257 units, and HD DVD player sales were at 14,558 units. week ending 1/12/08 showed Blu-ray Disc increased lead by 42 percent, to 21,770 units…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer Digital will eventually take over. Give it 5 years. Its not so much just online distribution as much as the fast availability of cheap rental packages (Netflix and BlockBuster) combined with ever expandi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer What country are you from? Oh. CANADA. Do you have Costco in CANADA? Everyone I know collects DVDs. Costco has them dirt cheap. WalMart has them dirt cheap. They sell in the hundreds of millions. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Walter Slocombe partly because I'd rather have the physical media, (HDD failure risks) I keep hearing this, and just don't by it. In all my years of owning and operating computers, I have never once had a HDD fail. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by icfireball I'm too lazy to split this quote up, so I'm just going to respond to a few things that come to mind at first. I'll probably miss a few items. Do TV shows have that warning when they are broadcast on TV? …
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Quote: Originally Posted by icfireball You can bet your bottom dollar that digital copies will have FBI warnings as well. Current cost of storage is prohibative of any mass collection of movies on hard disk right now and probably for the next few …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cory Bauer Yep. That and the only way you can lose your entire movie collection with physical media is a housefire, act of god or theft; not very common. But with digital downloads, a hard drive failure means you los…
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Quote: Originally Posted by shetline Future titles may use new keys, but those keys have to be built into the current hardware, or some master key to decrypt new keys stored on the disc, or else old Blu-Ray players wouldn't be able to play newer …
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Quote: Originally Posted by onlooker I'm not sure why people keep saying Blu Ray DRM will be cracked when it is already cracked? It was cracked before the first Blu Ray disk player was ever sold in the US. http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-ente…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. H Not at all. Do you know what the suggested retail price, for example, the Pirates of the Caribbean 3 blu-ray is in the U.K.? £29.99. That's $60! For one movie! The region-coding DRM layer allows studios to con…
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Quote: Originally Posted by marzetta7 ??? AACS is the standard that is on both HD DVD and Blu-ray. I haven't read anywhere where AACS is required for Blu-ray and optional for HD DVD. Could you please provide evidence of your claim? According to …
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Quote: Originally Posted by JLL We we're talking about Sony Pictures specifically and they don't use BD+. And here I thought we were discussing Blu-Ray vs HD DVD. What is the purpose of picking one studio out of the lot when Frank was talking …
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Quote: Originally Posted by JLL And yet Sony's movies use the same DRM as HD DVD movies (AACS). Except that AACS is required for Blu-Ray and optional for HD DVD. And Blu-Ray further allows for BD+, which is even more DRM. You can't argue this …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Walter Slocombe Do you SERIOUSLY believe that M$ has "sold" 15 million units? shipped maybe, but how many of those are going to replace broken units? Honestly, no not really. But the person I quoted was talking abou…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Galley Early reports indicate that the PS3 has sold a total of 8.4 million units so far. Take that, Toshiba! I didn't realize that Toshiba was competing in the video game console market? We all know not 100% of PS3…
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Quote: Originally Posted by onlooker Here is a decent explanation of Uncompressed "Lossless" PCM, and TrueHD which are both on Blu-Ray disks. HD-DVD can not fit both due to space constraints. Why would you want or need both? If both are lossle…
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Quote: Originally Posted by onlooker What the h3ll are you talking about? You just pull this crap straight out of your a$$ and start a sh*t smear campaign? WTF? I like it when the teeny-boppers come out to play: h3ll a$$ sh*t Maybe try…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer A critical mass of consumers have 5:1 systems. Channel separation necessary on the extra storage will make a huge difference without having the compression artifacts being a barrier. I would agree that a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cam'ron I am not sure how you missed the part where having extra space makes it possible to add higher quality audio, the HiDef formats aren't just about video. True, but it is easier for a person to see a differenc…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Frank777 I'd love to know the actual status of BD+. If it is indeed broken, and I will be able to use HandBrake-like tools to rip BR discs in the future, I would actually consider switching sides. As I've always …