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Quote: Originally Posted by bitemymac Have you tried any of the BD+ titles and profile 1.1 movies?... I heard some standalone players were having trouble with extra long load time over a minute and some machines locking up at times. And I've …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cory Bauer Do you know what happens to optional features? They don't get support from the content creators because nobody can use them. Either BD Live has to become standard on all players, or Blu-Ray will never matc…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cory Bauer Glad to see this is getting some press. Consumers need to be aware that even if Blu-Ray is most likely the winner of this format war, it's still a half-baked format not ready for primetime. BetaNews? The…
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea Heh...same thing is true for HD-DVD now...
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cory Bauer Um, the part where the format will be updated twice ? once for picture-in-picture and again for internet-enabled features ? leaving all dedicated blu-ray player purchasers up 1st-gen creek without an etherne…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison Studios tell us that they are drawn to the superiority of Blu-ray yet the spec still isn't finished even to the point of matching HD DVD. Which parts of the specs aren't finished? Quote: Originally Pos…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cory Bauer I just watched Engadget's video interview with a Sony rep regarding BDLive, and besides the fact that they're only using it to pedal shit like ringtones (which didn't even work in his demo), their BDLive-cap…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Frank777 IThe Blu-Ray fanboys no doubt feel satisfied, knowing that Sony will now use a decade worth of Blu-Ray royalties to come up with all sorts of proprietary nonsense, with huge helpings of DRM. This is getting…
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My guess is that it's downloadable apps for iPhone/iPod Touch.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cory Bauer [P]So...how long before a consumer can buy a finished Blu-Ray player?[/P] A Profile 1.1 player is just as finished as a Profile 2.0 player. The current Panasonic player is 1.1.
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross In the old days they were. No, they were updated later in January. (unless you mean the really old days)
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Quote: Originally Posted by applestockholder In the past this announcement would have been the focus of a Steve Jobs Keynote. If this upgrade is such small potatoes that it happened without huppla, then that begs the question what great things a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by kupan787 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 about the format as a whole. "Sony will do their best to lock up thei…
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Quote: Originally Posted by kupan787 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 one, Blu-Ray has more DRM than HD DVD, and it will be more dif…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bitemymac Sorry, my fault. I assumed you would know better. Of course, there is no such movie master with audio encoded in 128k mp3, but there are movie masters that would sound worse than if it had been encoded in 1…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Frank777 This is the primary reason I favour HD-DVD. I know ripping will eventually be commonplace on this format. On Blu-Ray, Sony will do their best to lock up their content for sure, and make you buy it again for th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison Um why do I care that the extras are in HD? I think people typically view the extras once or twice and that's it. Did you just write that? You didn't believe any of us earlier when we said that extras…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bitemymac That is the point. There is no point offering Lossless audio track encoding from a 128k mp3 quality source master. As I said there are no 128k masters so there is no point in discussing it. Should we a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bitemymac Despite all the audio decoding options, it just all comes down to the original source material and intensity of audio track for the movie are the combined factors that determine the audio rating at the end. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cam'ron They can't, they support two formats. One of which doesn't have enough room for lossless audio on longer movies. That is exactly my point.