| LordTheNightKnight said: VHS vs DVD is not a valid comparison. DVD didn't overtake VHS because of quality. It overtook it because of ease of use. |
Ease of use? People found using VHS tapes difficult? I think it was the convenient technology of not having to rewind, skipping through chapters of a movie, etc that were the big selling points for DVD over VHS.
Not only audiophiles dislike PLII, developers do too, unless they are not even bothering with surround sound. Its much harder to give spatial coloring using a faux-stereo conversion. For example, programming with Direct Sound in Direct X makes it basically a 4 click process to assign a sound to an element in 5.1 digital space, and allow that sound to be amplified or muffled based on its location to the listner and any obstacles between the two points.
Anyway, PLII gets buried next gen, so we'll have to tolerate for a few more years.
