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souixan on 12 November 2007
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ssj12 said:
WEWdeadeye said:
Wow ssj12, wtf? Way to just rip on something because you aren't a supporter of it. That ps3 you and I bought is just a waste right now too, so what? Not only that, everyone who bought a BD player is going to have to upgrade to a new one once the new discs start coming out, since they wont support the new content and cant play the larger size discs, even with a firmware update...thanks toshiba, for looking out for your customers. Is it possible to leave your bias out of a topic regarding BD or sony for once?

1. The current gen palyers can pay the 100GB discs. That was announced in a firmware update ages ago.

2. Blu-ray 1.1 duiscs are out and current players can paly them just with reduced features.

3. I'm wasting my time with my PS3? I still havent beaten Folklore or R&C yet... and I bought 5 new Blu-ray movies.

4. If you noticed I used facts that I know of. The fact that Blu-ray is out selling HD-DVD is a well known fact.

5. Frankly I would have suggested the $250 HD-DVD player lol. Might be more expensive but it supports 1080p and higher colour depth.

6. Even I just admited Blu-ray will probably fall to the protein and holo-discs. And I'd be happy as hell to see it happen. 1 holo disc = 1 terabyte. =]


I'm just gonna comment on 2 things here. "2. Blu-ray 1.1 duiscs are out and current players can paly them just with reduced features." Shouldn't be reduced anything, up till recently BD players were 600$+ should play everything at any size regardless. If by reduced features you mean the fact that older BD players don't support 1.3 HDMI well that's just fine, I don't know of any tv's that do yet either. "5. Frankly I would have suggested the $250 HD-DVD player lol. Might be more expensive but it supports 1080p and higher colour depth." HDMI 1.3 offeres higher color depth but other then that 1080i and 1080p are the same short of frame rate. Everything recorded, as far as I know, is done so in 24 FPS. Any good LCD/Plasma TV actually will de-interlace the source before displaying it. Regardless of 1080p or 1080i there will be duplicated frames(that's you're 3:2 pull down) in order to fill the excess frame. The only place 1080p and 1080i will be noticeable is in larger tv's (42"+) from the perfect distance(varies for size) and only with a digital source(PC, game console etc) not for TV or movies.. as they're shot in 24Frames and the only real difference in 1080i and 1080p is 30 frames... (1080i= 30FPS 1080p = 60 FPS) Maybe in the future we'll have material shot in higher frame rates.. but by then we'll probably have better resolutions too.. End of the day yeah 1080p is -slightly- better than 1080i but don't worry about it unless you mostly use the TV for games/pc and other digital sources. Even then it's really not worth the price difference unless you're a total videophile and going for a huge TV than maybe...