| dbot said: @HappySqurriel - Thanks for your response. I think the MP3 argument falls flat a little because a majority of the people that enjoy the cd quality encoding of MP3 audio are listening to the file via earbuds or inexpensive speakers. If you listen to a 128 encoding on decent loudspeakers you would notice a substantial drop in quality from a high def or analog source. The reason why the MP3 argument doesn't match fully is because the standard HD display devices are of much better quality than standard ear buds. Your typical viewer may not know what a compression artifact is, but they do see them in highly compressed video offered by download services. Not to mention the audio quality included in these dowload services is atrocious. I agree that that there is less of a difference between an upscaled DVD compared to a Blu-ray movie. All Blu-ray players upscale DVD's as well. There is a significant difference from a downloaded movie compared to an upscaled DVD or Blu-ray. IMO, I believe the typical HDTV owner would be able to correctly rank a downloaded movie, upscaled dvd, and Blu-ray in order of quality. The first DVD players launched in 12/1995 and 4 years later the Matrix was released and became the first DVD to sell over a million DVDs at launch. The first Blu-ray players hit the market in 6/2006. The Dark Knight releases on Blu-ray 2 and a half years later and will ship over a million Blu-rays at launch. |
No, the comparison is perfect. MP3 took off only because it was the standard chosen by the pirates... They were the majority and they still are. The pirates are choosing digital distribution. Right now, the average movie is 700MB (to fit on a cd) and the quality varies from DVD quality to lower than DVD. However, those movies are extremely portable and transferable just like MP3 were. As piracy goes up, it could seriously threaten Blu-Ray more than anything else. That's why the movie companies spend more in lawyers and bribes than promotion of the Blu-Ray format.
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