In Reply to: new to forum, what's up? posted by davej on December 6, 2007 at 08:22:55:
At the core of the debate is whether blu-ray's greater capacity is important.
That's it in a nutshell. The rest of the debate is inconsequential.
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Follow Ups Full ThreadTopic - new to forum, what's up? - davej 08:22:55 12/06/07 (58)
- What's up? Unfortunately, not a lot; time to leave this asylum - 4season 07:42:30 12/08/07 (4)
- Good luck finding another forum where the fan-boys aren't on the attack - racerguy 08:06:25 12/08/07 (3)
- Strangely enough, the AVSforum might actually be a reasonable place to go.... - oscar 18:59:29 12/08/07 (2)
- RE: Strangely enough, the AVSforum might actually be a reasonable place to go.... - racerguy 11:21:04 12/09/07 (0)
- while i decided to go with blu-ray, i also don't want to inflate which to be fair mainly comes - jaiva 19:18:46 12/08/07 (0)
- Hopefully by Christmas 08 - johnvb 17:45:13 12/06/07 (3)
- I agree. - Audiophilander 00:20:57 12/07/07 (2)
- that's because you don't understand the industry or market - Jazz Inmate 09:38:31 12/07/07 (1)
- Baloney; pure speculum on your part; contributed by the blue-boys, natch! - Audiophilander 12:22:36 12/07/07 (0)
- RE: new to forum, what's up? - Rod H. 12:40:46 12/06/07 (0)
- Shills or fanboys - 4season 10:36:49 12/06/07 (0)
- RE: new to forum, what's up? - racerguy 10:33:10 12/06/07 (44)
- it's a funny place - tunenut 09:25:30 12/07/07 (5)
- The journey may ultimately take us nowhere, but what a ride! - 4season 10:49:06 12/09/07 (1)
- good recommendations - tunenut 18:45:28 12/11/07 (0)
- HDTV Will Be Forced Upon The Consumers Soon - Robertc88 03:35:45 12/08/07 (2)
- I will apparently be forced to digital... - tunenut 13:55:28 12/08/07 (0)
- Just because it's digital doesn't mean there won't be black bars - racerguy 08:11:16 12/08/07 (0)
- small error and bigger corrections - Ole Lund Christensen 11:58:46 12/06/07 (26)
- I looked up your credentials, and they are very impressive - Duilawyer 16:19:57 12/06/07 (1)
- RE: I looked up your credentials, and they are very impressive - Ole Lund Christensen 13:33:42 12/07/07 (0)
- Sorry for misspelling your moniker - racerguy 12:23:33 12/06/07 (23)
- RE: Sorry for misspelling your moniker - Jazz Inmate 13:40:15 12/06/07 (19)
- "You mistake an informed decision..." - ...INFORMED DECISION!!! - Really, informed by what? Oh, wait a minute: - Audiophilander 08:07:17 12/07/07 (2)
- You chose a format that has 20 GB less capacity and can't even accommodate 5.1 lossless PCM with - Jazz Inmate 09:35:24 12/07/07 (1)
- You're the feller getting the "chip implant" like Clockwork from the Blue authority: - Audiophilander 12:16:16 12/07/07 (0)
- "gloating" was the word I was looking for, Ole "gloats". - Duilawyer 19:00:02 12/06/07 (11)
- Ole's not "politically correct". He has (correctly) identified the superior format and makes no bones about it - Jazz Inmate 19:30:52 12/06/07 (10)
- Unfortunately, Blu-ray sales advantages have more to do with studio support and PS3s.... - oscar 20:14:05 12/06/07 (9)
- well stated analysis - Ole Lund Christensen 22:31:57 12/06/07 (8)
- Have you read this Businessweek tidbit concerning Warner ? - oscar 06:24:31 12/07/07 (7)
- Very informative, thank you - Ole Lund Christensen 14:10:59 12/07/07 (0)
- High Def will go as Warner goes. - Jack G 09:47:24 12/07/07 (4)
- I don't see Sony/Disney/Fox defecting no matter what Warner's does. - oscar 10:04:58 12/07/07 (3)
- I disagree - Jack G 10:41:20 12/07/07 (2)
- The Blu-ray studios like BD+/region coding as well as the bandwidth/storage advantages. - oscar 11:23:00 12/07/07 (1)
- Aren't these the same studios that supported DIVX for many of the same reasons? - Jack G 12:02:30 12/07/07 (0)
- That would be awesome NT - Jazz Inmate 09:05:55 12/07/07 (0)
- that's where you go wrong, big time, You confuse Ole's right to choose - Duilawyer 14:12:03 12/06/07 (3)
- Nonsense...when Jack finds a juicy news item in support of HD DVD, no one attacks him for it - Jazz Inmate 14:22:41 12/06/07 (2)
- you are right! I think becuae there is balance in Jacks posts. - Duilawyer 16:25:15 12/06/07 (0)
- That's not true - you do (nt) - racerguy 14:37:25 12/06/07 (0)
- Well said. (nt) - Jack G 13:27:07 12/06/07 (0)
- RE: Sorry for misspelling your moniker - Ole Lund Christensen 13:13:39 12/06/07 (0)
- Nicely stated, and I concur. (nt) - Audiophilander 13:05:35 12/06/07 (0)
- * sigh *...now you're lying - Jazz Inmate 10:40:04 12/06/07 (10)
- "We visited Dolby labs, not Sony." - Did they supply you with free tin-foil hats? (nt) - Audiophilander 13:01:44 12/06/07 (0)
- There's a difference between a lie and an error, but I don't expect you to understand that - racerguy 11:13:49 12/06/07 (8)
- There are actually some pretty darn good technical reasons why... - oscar 13:06:48 12/06/07 (1)
- Indeed. However... - racerguy 14:19:32 12/06/07 (0)
- Is it like the difference between a cheerleader and acknowledging capacity as critical in HD media? - Jazz Inmate 11:38:43 12/06/07 (5)
- You really ought to be careful about cavalierly calling people liars, Jazz... - racerguy 11:52:51 12/06/07 (4)
- I've heard the same "propaganda" from another source..... - oscar 19:11:52 12/06/07 (2)
- Dolby Digital has always had Dialog Normalization metadata - racerguy 20:19:18 12/06/07 (1)
- True, I trust my LG's decoding implementation not at all... - oscar 06:03:49 12/07/07 (0)
- You really ought to be careful about cavalierly calling people cheerleaders, racer... - Jazz Inmate 13:10:30 12/06/07 (0)
- the "signal to noise" ratio - Jazz Inmate 10:32:27 12/06/07 (0)
- It's a fairly high stakes battle between good and evil. :) - oscar 09:08:55 12/06/07 (0)
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- the "signal to noise" ratio - Jazz Inmate 10:32:27 12/06/07 (0)