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I must be behind the times. What the heck is 1.1 ?

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In Reply to: RE: you don't always have to post something nasty anytime posted by Jack G on August 30, 2007 at 05:11:59

I insert the disk, hit the play button, hit the select button, the movie plays (wonderfully, I might add). What more could you want in a player ?

Interactivity, PIP, and other bells and whistles don't really interest me that much; Video and audio quality does. I'll grant that may not be the attitude shared by the mass public.

Eventually, I'd expect the Bells and whistles (e.g. BD-J, PIP, seamless branching, game playing, etc) on Blu-Ray to be even cooler than on HD DVD. The trick is to keep HD DVD from stealing the market before Blu-ray gets their "bells&whistle" act together.

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RE: I must be behind the times. What the heck is 1.1 ? - 4season 06:19:36 08/30/07 (0)
For you, B-D 1.1 is hopefully nothing more than a firmware update that will give you access to more advanced features of future movies. Whether players can be updated in this manner, and whether movies using 1.1 features can be played back on 1.0-spec players, and to what degree, isn't at all clear.

Personally, I'm not worried: If my PS/3 is indeed the 800-lb gorilla of the Blu-Ray world, either it will be updateable to the 1.1 spec, or the 1.1 spec likely will go nowhere.
RE: I must be behind the times. What the heck is 1.1 ? - Jack G 05:46:47 08/30/07 (0)
> > > Interactivity, PIP, and other bells and whistles don't really interest me that much; < < <
That may be, but they certainly interest the studios, especially Warner. All players introduced after October 31(delayed from June), have to be compliant with the new specs [extra memory, dual video processors etc.]. The 2 new Samaungs, plus their combo player are coming out just before the deadline-unless the deadline gets pushed back again.
Paidgeek has already said that no PiP titles will come out before '08, so we'll see if any players come out before that.
We won't even go into video 2.0.
Don't you just hate it when a new format can't even finalize their specs a year after launch? :-)
Jack

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