Bluray vs hddvd - HD-DVD Buyers Beware

[Kwaad]

Ok, first of all, the microsoft side of the fence is saying digital, or BluRay. The Nintendo side is saying HD-DVD. I am not throwing insults at the microsoft boys. (for once)

Just for your all information, a 21minute video of SouthPark at 480i should be almost an identical size of SouthPark at 1080p. Running h.264, the file-size would be fairly close to being the same. I know the current formats out there.

Also, for those of you saying 1440p and such as new formats, with 10.1 audio.

The new digital movie theaters run 2048x1080. 1080p is 1960x1080. Not that much of a diffrence.

1440p runs 2560x1440. Quite a bit higher than the new digital movie theaters. The old film theaters dont look quite as crisp as the new digital ones. I dont think the commercial movie industry will improve beyond that for the next few years. (10-20years)

1440p is stupid and senseless.

7.1 is stupid and senseless, fuck 10.1

It's a proven fact that a properly setup 5.1 sounds almost identical to a 7.1

I dont know how many of you deal with compressing/de-compressing and online file transportation...

But I can tell you. h.264's compression is too low for streaming HQ 720p on a 5mbit line. Screw a 1080p. You would need over a 20mbit connection, and I would hate to see the servers that provide that much data. I dont know how many of you have looked into doing a webserver, but most of the ones that I know that not very many of them allow you over 10gb of data/month.

I have trouble dreaming of a server that can send data almost as fast as your HDD in your computer, to around 100,000 people at a time. That sounds like YouTube x10,000.

and sieanr about downloading it off BT. I dont know what kind of internet connection that you have, but I spent around 48hours downloading my HD download off BT, and it was only 720p. Also, I will confess, it was NOT lossless.

I mean it was free and all, but not if I paid 20-30$ for it... no-way in hell would I wait over 2 hours to download it. And then I would want to be able to archive my stuff... however I would be looking at 10 movies on a 200$ HDD. So add 20$ to each movie for data storage. Even if you could download it at full quality. It would still cost roughly 30$ in todays market. I'm sure in 3 years that would be cheaper... but then agian, so will BluRays.