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Topic - 51G HD DVD media [screendigest.com] - 4season 09:53:32 09/10/07 (20)

• 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)
• Its mostly a PR move - Jack G 05:14:14 09/11/07 (0)
• you skipped the best part!! Well, so much for the Bluray size advantage! - Duilawyer 22:11:14 09/10/07 (2)
• blu-ray can do 200 gigs - Jazz Inmate 10:28:24 09/11/07 (1)
• Ahem...works the other way, too, Jazz. (NT) - jeffreybehr 10:13:47 09/14/07 (0)

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• It will be backward compatable - Jack G 07:05:37 09/11/07 (0)