Completely off-topic:

Diomedes, you failed me. You never showed your face in the Media Create thread to back up their numbers.

URNotE said: i wish hd dvd would just roll over and die already you got paramount you got universal seem like you had warner too and came out with lower prices seemed like a firesale to me... die already die!!!! we dont need this format war.. sony shoulda just payed off toshiba from the start on an agreement or whatever

Em actually Sony should have not gone against the DVD forum and create a new format when HD DVD had been approved by the DVD forum.  But of course Sony is ruled by greed and so had to create a new format as it has done countless number of times.  Of course Sony is finally going to win a format war after several attempts but at the cost of the console war. 

Dolla Dolla said: Completely off-topic: Diomedes, you failed me. You never showed your face in the Media Create thread to back up their numbers.

There have been quite a bit of those threads ,I showed up in one of those and sticked to MC numbers even if this week ,and last week too ,they were far worse for Playstation plattforms that the Enterbrain data .I dont know how I can be more coherent than that .

etuoyo said: URNotE said: i wish hd dvd would just roll over and die already you got paramount you got universal seem like you had warner too and came out with lower prices seemed like a firesale to me... die already die!!!! we dont need this format war.. sony shoulda just payed off toshiba from the start on an agreement or whatever Em actually Sony should have not gone against the DVD forum and create a new format when HD DVD had been approved by the DVD forum.  But of course Sony is ruled by greed and so had to create a new format as it has done countless number of times.  Of course Sony is finally going to win a format war after several attempts but at the cost of the console war.

Uh ,look ,its true the DVD forum approved the HD DVD as the succesor of the DVD back in 2003 but it was after a bitter voting that finished 6 to 4 and with the four against being the bigger companies out there .Besides ,nearly all the DVD forum members are backing BR now .Toshiba has had a lot to do blocking the agreements for a unified plattform due to "his " being the approved one .But wich legitimity gives HD DVD the endorsement of the DVD forum when nearly all the DVD forum members (excepting Toshiba and LG )are actively producing and marketing the BR player ?

Before i sold my PS3 i had casino royale... i got it for free with the console. Lol

Diomedes1976 said: Well ,thanks makingmusic476 ...it still looks awesome.I just wanted the movie and thought it was a good one to start my BR collection ,outside of Casino Royale that Sony offered the first european buyers of the PS3 ,so I bought it . Wich movie do you think would show off the HDTV and BR player +

Oh, I know, 300 kicks ass. I'm just saying, if you think that's good, it gets better. :)

PotC3 is coming out on Dec. 4 (though if you live in Europe, it's already out), and the reviews coming in have said it sets the new benchmark for picture and audio quality.

Check out this thread on AVS to see how BR releases rank in terms of PQ. It seperates all released BR movies in tier threads, from tier 0-5. Tier 0 has the best PQ, and so far only seven movies have made it that high (not including PotC3).

Diomedes1976 said: etuoyo said: URNotE said: i wish hd dvd would just roll over and die already you got paramount you got universal seem like you had warner too and came out with lower prices seemed like a firesale to me... die already die!!!! we dont need this format war.. sony shoulda just payed off toshiba from the start on an agreement or whatever Em actually Sony should have not gone against the DVD forum and create a new format when HD DVD had been approved by the DVD forum. But of course Sony is ruled by greed and so had to create a new format as it has done countless number of times. Of course Sony is finally going to win a format war after several attempts but at the cost of the console war.   Uh ,look ,its true the DVD forum approved the HD DVD as the succesor of the DVD back in 2003 but it was after a bitter voting that finished 6 to 4 and with the four against being the bigger companies out there .Besides ,nearly all the DVD forum members are backing BR now .Toshiba has had a lot to do blocking the agreements for a unified plattform due to "his " being the approved one .But wich legitimity gives HD DVD the endorsement of the DVD forum when nearly all the DVD forum members (excepting Toshiba and LG )are actively producing and marketing the BR player ?

 Sony and Panasonic began working on blue laser technology way back in 1995.  Blu-Ray was announced in early 2002, almost a fully year before HD DVD was.  The only reason HD DVD was approved by the DVD forum was because the members of the BDA abstained from voting.  Even then, so many people abstained that HD DVD shouldn't have been able to pass, but Toshiba (the head of the steering committee) altered the voting rules so that abstantations were not counted.

Besides, who says the DVD forum has a right to decide who's the successor to anything?  Associations like the DVD forum and the BDA are formed around a product to provide support for that product.  They don't create products themselves. 

I have a hddvd player and I admit I chose the wrong format. It seems HDdvd is on its way out.
however, my brother has a BR player and it takes a long time for it turn on and be able to read the disc. Is this normal for BR players? or is it just this particular Sony product. My HDdvd player is much much faster loading.

Coca-Cola said: I have a hddvd player and I admit I chose the wrong format. It seems HDdvd is on its way out. however, my brother has a BR player and it takes a long time for it turn on and be able to read the disc. Is this normal for BR players? or is it just this particular Sony product. My HDdvd player is much much faster loading.

It depends on the player. The new Sharp BD player loads up a disc in less than 16 seconds, on average, while many older BD palyers take well over 30 sec., some over a minute.

What model HD DVD player do you have? It's hard to compare without knowing that. The A1s, for instance, took a long time to boot up (1 min.+), but the A2s took less, and the A3s have improved upon that. Then there are differences between the A2s, the A20s, and the XA2s, etc.

The ps3 and the 360 add-on load the fastest by far, because of the powerful processors in the two consoles.

All of my dvd players will only rewind or fast forward a movie up to either 15 or 32 times normal speed....PS3 goes up to 120x.