Video Asylum

Posted by MDavis (A) on December 26, 2007 at 18:37:06

In Reply to: RE: Blu-ray will have price parity and probable features superiority within the year. posted by oscar on December 25, 2007 at 19:15:07

Within a year(?), do you know how many people were predicting that Blu-ray would finish off HD DVD by the end of 2007. Now Blu-ray needs another year (if it can even happen in a year) to compete on price. Have you considered that a year (or more) may be too long and will actually spell the end or the beginning of the end for Blu-ray. I believe the reason that Blu-ray is still around at its' higher prices is because of good marketing (market confusion and a cooler name!), not because people actually think it looks any better than HD DVD. And please, give us a break on the "features superiority" thing. Most people buy the players to put in a disc and watch an HD movie period. The features are at best just a novelty that will wear off with a bit of time. But if it really matters to you guess what - HD DVD has them NOW as well as being reasonably less expensive. I also see you are still harping about disc size and bandwidth as if either makes a difference because they certainly don't seem to to all the people who have chosen to go with HD DVD.

"And speak for yourself if you haven't seen/heard the differences. The technical differences pointing out theoretical reasons why Blu-ray PQ/SQ can be better are there."

No, speak for yourself and please give us another break on the "theoretical reasons" silliness. Even you question it in your answer. Of course there's technical differences between video and audio formats but that doesn't automatically mean that they can be seen or heard. Even if Blu-ray is technically better that doesn't mean that a difference can be discerned by the human eye. Videophiles seem to think that there are no limits to the resolution of human sight just as audiophiles seem to believe the same for human hearing. Audiophiles actually think that they can hear differences between SACD and DVD-audio [or for that matter and redbook CD]. The general public can't even hear a difference between CD and MP3. In a double-blind test not one of you Blu-ray fanboys would be able to tell the difference between the two HD video formats to save your life. It's purely subjective. And please spare me all the videophile/audiophile reasons why a scientific ABX test is invalid for video/audio testing. And that's why I stated "The majority of the public..." in my post and not videophiles/audiophiles. The public readily admits that they can not see/hear any differences in these audio and video formats. They just don't have those miracle eyes and ears! You can keep thinking in terms of a phile and believe you see/hear whatever you want but the format(s) can not survive on philes alone.