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"Have you had the chance to play around with lossless/uncompressed audio yet?" - Nope, but ...

Posted by Audiophilander (A) on November 30, 2007 at 11:47:06

In Reply to: We can agree to disagree. posted by oscar on November 30, 2007 at 05:19:19:

...with rare exception I'm more into two channel for music (as it was originally recorded and mixed). Surround sound for movies is great, but for most consumers lossy or lossless is meaningless jargon. Note: And as an audiophile, I know that lossless doesn't really mean "lossless" when compared with the analog original because it still utilizes compression codecs.

I've even considered getting another turntable and acquiring some classic recordings on vinyl (shudder) because in some instances there are no satisfactory digital recordings available of desired music, but to get back to the original point the term lossless is deceptive.

>>> "We can agree to disagree." <<<

That's fine; I wasn't trying to make this into a personal issue, Oscar, and I'm sorry if you took it that way. If you prefer Blu-ray that's hunky dory. My only bias is toward buying the movies and TV series I want and paying a reasonable admission price with no strings attached.

The blue/red format wars won't be resolved by heated debates here; I'm sure that there are dedicated fans in both camps. There will probably come a time when I'll purchase a Blu-ray player as well when the price becomes more competitive with HD-DVD and they resolve some issues, but there's no rush.

BTW, would you mind addressing the robust region blocking issue which SONY touts to endear themselves to the pirate paranoid studios? For some folks this may be a deal breaker for acceptance of Blu-ray.

>>> "But I find the 50G Fox/Sony/Disney releases consistently have better picture than Universal/Warner releases." <<<

Since you have both HD-DVD & Blu-ray, have you made any A/B comparisons? Oh, wait! That's right, there aren't any because the Fox/SONY/Disney consortium have blocked the release of corresponding titles in HD through exclusivity deals; that's why the HD camp retaliated this fall by signing Paramount & Dreamworks to exclusivity deals of their own! So, the customer is forced to choose between the formats based upon favored titles rather than best reproduction.

As I stated in my prior post with the intentionally humorous analogy regarding cranial capacity, the available space is less important than what's in it.

The bottom line: When compared, movies which have been released in both formats are virtually identical PQ-wise.

Cheers,
AuPh :o)

PS: E-mail me if you're still interested in the extra HDMI switcher; I'd rather offer it to a friend than auction it off on eBay.

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