Video Asylum

Posted by Jazz Inmate (R) on August 20, 2007 at 17:07:35

In Reply to: RE: "It's about specs and physical limitation of the respective formats. " posted by Jack G on August 20, 2007 at 16:49:15

You can't honestly think that it's advantageous or doesn't matter to go with a lower capacity audio/video format over a higher capacity format.

I'm not a Sony employee but I stood there in Dolby Labs and heard for myself. Even with blu-ray, there is not enough room for all content with LPCM and that is why TrueHD is becoming the standard on more titles. Already there are sacrifices being made to fit content on these discs.

We're on a glorified audio website so you can't tell me you don't care about audio, and while you can tell me you don't respect my observations, it isn't really conducive to a conversation about quality, is it?

Again, the Prestige Blu-ray had 14 gigs more data than the HD DVD, by your numbers. What happened to all that data? Is your contention is that it was just wasted, irrelevant content that has no bearing on the product? That's kind of hard to believe.

I do care about 7.1 because I want to be able to hear a movie as the producer and the audio engineers intended. I am going to have to deal with TrueHD for that. Fine. But I don't want to have to keep making compromises like that. The greater the disc capacity, the fewer the compromises.
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