Video Asylum

Posted by Joe Murphy Jr (A) on September 18, 2007 at 20:33:04

In Reply to: RE: As far as I'm concerned, there are already audible differences when movie releases are examined as a whole. posted by oscar on September 18, 2007 at 19:21:56

Even with the new "approved" triple-layer discs, storage capacity may be up but bandwidth hasn't budged. It's also kind of interesting that Toshiba hasn't outright made a statement as to the ability of today's players to actually play triple-layer discs. You'd think that they would have tested this already. I guarantee that the line from HD DVD fans will be something along the lines of "Oh, well. That's the price early adopters have to pay. I'll just get a new player to play the triple-layer discs. HD DVD players are cheap, anyway." if those discs, should they ever make it out of the lab, refuse to play (thus rationalizing their "investment" and quietly dismissing the crap they threw at Blu-ray owners for purchasing -- incorrectly -- so-called "obsolete" Profile 1.0 players).