Video Asylum

Posted by oscar (A) on June 18, 2007 at 16:10:31

In Reply to: RE: Good strategy? Maybe; maybe not. But it could help drive prices down in the sell through market that much quicker... posted by Audiophilander on June 18, 2007 at 15:01:00

I suspect a lot of people are sitting the format war out until there is a clear winner. Which means HD video will continue to stagnate until one side wins. Blockbuster may be attempting to help pick the winning side more quickly so that their business base can start to thrive on HD video as the DVD rental market starts to dry up. The quicker one format can thrive, the better the chances of it competing with SD-DVD and/or surviving the HDVOD onslaught in the coming years.

Yeah, I'm not too happy with Blu-Ray concerning Region coding and DRM, but I'd rather have Blu-Rays's better technical specs for movie watching. There's quite a bit of subjective, anecdotal evidence that low bit rate video codecs can suffer if the TLC by the compressionist ain't up to snuff. Or even that high bit rate encodes on 50G discs are already better than anything possible with 30G discs. Still, that's all subjective, but when you've got the supersized screen, you want the best possible PQ from the source and I'm far from convinced HD DVD can give me that with 1080p. [BTW, I put your screen in the "supersized" category :0)]

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