In Reply to: 51G HD DVD media [screendigest.com] posted by 4season on September 10, 2007 at 09:53:32:
That and the development cycle needed to bring replication plants up to speed. Maybe 2 years (if ever) before you see product ?
This doesn't solve the bandwidth limitation issue either which will probably stop HD DVD from combining reference quality high def video with 5.1 24.96 lossless audio tracks.
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- It's a marketing ploy. I've yet to see some announcement of backwards compatibility with existing players. - oscar 06:17:47 09/11/07 (15)
- Most of this "format war" is a marketing ploy - 4season 09:37:34 09/11/07 (13)
- (20% of HD DVD movies have lossless track.... - oscar 10:54:19 09/11/07 (12)
- I probably wouldn't assume that "LPCM" necessarily means "lossless" - 4season 11:34:07 09/11/07 (1)
- 24bit converted to 16 bit PCM still sounds pretty good. - oscar 14:07:42 09/11/07 (0)
- 57% of BD is Lossless according to Blu-raystats.com - Jack G 11:10:48 09/11/07 (9)
- But How Many Players Can Successfully Access Certain Tracks? - Robertc88 05:49:54 09/12/07 (7)
- It means you have to do your homework if your end goal is lossless audio playback. - oscar 06:45:23 09/12/07 (5)
- Not Sure Homework Is The Issue - Robertc88 05:46:52 09/13/07 (4)
- Homework is figuring which of those combinations of receivers/source players will allow lossless playback. - oscar 17:22:10 09/13/07 (0)
- Then get a player with analog out - Jack G 07:04:01 09/13/07 (2)
- Slim Pickings For HD DVD Right Now - Robertc88 10:46:29 09/14/07 (1)
- RE: Slim Pickings For HD DVD Right Now - Jack G 05:55:53 09/15/07 (0)
- ????? - Jack G 06:17:47 09/12/07 (0)
- Low bitrate/inefficient encodes result in less-than-stellar PQ. - oscar 13:58:12 09/11/07 (0)
- It will be backward compatable - Jack G 07:05:37 09/11/07 (0)