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Ray007 on 08 September 2007
Caey said:

For the people stating that HD content looks better even on sd-tv's. That can be true, yet it's like sattelite vs cable: if you switch between twice the same channel you can indeed notice that it is sharper and brighter (and delayed) but we did a test afterwards in witch we had to guess if we were watching the one of the other: you just can't tell the difference.
It's like having a photo printed by two firms: you will always notice a difference when you compare them but you just can't tell what firm printed it by just looking at one picture.


I think that's more to do with the quality of transmission rather than picture resolution.  

The advantage of HD is the extra resolution, but on an SD TV, it's useless.  A standard NTSC TV has 480 scan lines, and that is the maximum it will EVER display – no matter what you feed it.  Playing an HD movie will not magically increase the resolution of the TV.



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dallas on 08 September 2007

I don't get all of this "because Blu-ray/HD-DVD is small" it won't survive kind of talk. Hey the internet was just 3 colleges when it started and keep in mind that HD TV is the future of tv, so HD media will see a lot of growth, whether or not it will eventually replace DVDs.



Starscream on 08 September 2007
dallas said:
I don't get all of this "because Blu-ray/HD-DVD is small" it won't survive kind of talk. Hey the internet was just 3 colleges when it started ...

 The internet was free, man.



dallas on 08 September 2007

ok, well that's a bad example, but a mere bad example doesn't undermine the fact of a format being small, that it won't be able to grow and do well.



W29 on 08 September 2007

To be honest I would like to use my regular DVD player for the next 5 years or so. I don't need a switch its just isn't worth it right now. We just got into DVD's 6 years ago. Why a new format? The HD for the Xbox 360 and PS3 for graphics is cool. But why buy a Blu-ray or HD-DVD player and most people out there like myself don't even have a HDTV.



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dallas on 08 September 2007

why upgrade your computer when what you have is ok? Why get a bigger TV or a nicer car? Nobody is saying that you have to ( or even should) get into the whole consumerism beat the neighbors kind of lifestyle, but some people get into that, and whats more, the movie industry seems to be very positive on HD media's future judging by the amount of attention it has been getting.



FishyJoe on 08 September 2007

The only reason the movie industry is interested is so they can charge more money for the same movies.



johnsobas on 08 September 2007

60k a week for both combied sales, that is awful.



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BenKenobi88 on 08 September 2007

Don't get me wrong, HD is great and will get more accepted later, but that doesn't mean Blu-Ray or HD-DVD will be the formats to carry it. Higher quality discs incompatible with the two, or downloadable content, there's a number of things that could beat out BluRay and HDDVD in a few years.



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konnichiwa on 08 September 2007
BenKenobi88 said:
Don't get me wrong, HD is great and will get more accepted later, but that doesn't mean Blu-Ray or HD-DVD will be the formats to carry it. Higher quality discs incompatible with the two, or downloadable content, there's a number of things that could beat out BluRay and HDDVD in a few years.

 Who knows but then I think the thing that will beat HDDVD or Blu Ray in a few years has to be damned expensive.