In Reply to: "Food for thought"...then start thinking, auph posted by Jazz Inmate on December 4, 2007 at 13:34:08:
In Auph's case, lossless audio just isn't a priority and I guess he's perfectly satisfied with the video presentation he's getting on HD DVD; maybe he hasn't had much exposure to the later Blu-ray releases with high bit rate AVC encodes on 50G discs. I've found a number of HD DVD releases to have inconsistent PQ with too many "soft" scenes sometimes intermixed with scenes with superb PQ (though I've seen the same thing with the Blu-ray releases on 25G discs). I suspect this is a result of lower average bitrates because of bandwidth/storage limitations; but I can't really point to any proof until we have a number of "re-releases" of the same film using significantly different video encodes/bitrates for comparisons.
HD DVD does have one argument going for it concerning the Blu-Ray sales advantage: Blu-ray has thus far had a big edge in day/date releases of new movies because of the better studio support and the biggest HD media sales have been with day/date new movie releases. This may or may not swing the other way depending on which studios have the biggest blockbusters down the road.
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Follow Ups
- To be fair, the differences in audio/video are subtle/non-existent to J6P. - oscar 15:36:33 12/04/07 (29)
- RE: - Jack G 05:12:35 12/05/07 (0)
- you're hinting at one reason I'm impatient with studios like Warner playing both sides - Jazz Inmate 16:49:00 12/04/07 (27)
- RE: you're hinting at one reason I'm impatient with studios like Warner playing both sides - Jack G 04:55:30 12/05/07 (22)
- RE: you're hinting at one reason I'm impatient with studios like Warner playing both sides - Jazz Inmate 09:10:24 12/05/07 (21)
- Once again you missed the point - Jack G 09:57:41 12/05/07 (20)
- Ok, lets evaluate your "point", but first let's look at Paramount's agenda - Jazz Inmate 11:26:09 12/05/07 (19)
- RE: Ok, lets evaluate your "point", but first let's look at Paramount's agenda - Jack G 11:36:37 12/05/07 (18)
- RE: Ok, lets evaluate your "point", but first let's look at Paramount's agenda - Jazz Inmate 11:59:01 12/05/07 (4)
- This is getting old... - Jack G 12:14:29 12/05/07 (3)
- Tell me about it - Jazz Inmate 13:18:20 12/05/07 (2)
- Try to focus - Jack G 13:36:44 12/05/07 (1)
- RE: Try to focus - Jazz Inmate 14:12:09 12/05/07 (0)
- RE: Ok, lets evaluate your "point", but first let's look at Paramount's agenda - racerguy 11:54:54 12/05/07 (12)
- LOL - Jack G 13:39:02 12/05/07 (11)
- Yeah, I thought it was funny too - racerguy 14:11:21 12/05/07 (10)
- RE: Yeah, I thought it was funny too - Jazz Inmate 14:16:05 12/05/07 (9)
- Where do you come up with these strange ideas? - racerguy 18:07:17 12/05/07 (6)
- RE: Where do you come up with these strange ideas? - Jazz Inmate 21:36:53 12/05/07 (5)
- Once again, you've made a big mess and embarrassed yourself. I'm worried about you - racerguy 09:02:36 12/06/07 (4)
- amazing how you can ignore every salient point and call yourself reasonable - Jazz Inmate 10:09:02 12/06/07 (3)
- You are a real piece of work - racerguy 10:20:08 12/06/07 (2)
- Don't be dishonest, racer - Jazz Inmate 10:36:15 12/06/07 (1)
- More stupidity from Jazz (nt) - racerguy 10:41:17 12/06/07 (0)
- "Why would I then want to waste my time and money on the inferior format? - Jack G 15:22:39 12/05/07 (1)
- RE: "Why would I then want to waste my time and money on the inferior format? - Jazz Inmate 16:15:40 12/05/07 (0)
- "We then get airheads telling us there is no difference between formats." - Rah! Rah! Shake those pom-poms! - Audiophilander 00:08:34 12/05/07 (3)
- Put on your thinking cap ZS AUPH - Jazz Inmate 08:59:10 12/05/07 (2)
- Here ya go: - Audiophilander 10:24:09 12/05/07 (1)
- Wow, not even ZS KEKL posted googled photos - Jazz Inmate 12:06:29 12/05/07 (0)