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In Reply to: Re: Blu-Ray's not competing against HD-DVD though - they're both competing against DVD.... posted by Ole Lund Christensen on March 18, 2007 at 23:53:22:
"Sales of HDTV in USA are soon close to 30% of population.So the USA Blu ray have an easy fight against DVD."
I'm not arguing that HD isn't superior to SD (although the difference isn't as pronounced as some suggest), I'm saying that genuine HD software through a HD source component isn't sufficiently superior to SD (DVD) through an upscaling DVD source to justify the increase in price of the software and hardware as things stand.
Companies who provide HD broadcasts use the same upscaling chip as used in Denon DVD players so obviously there's every users of the Denon players are geting HD broadcast quality in the home via DVD.
Broadcasts filmed in HD will no doubt be a vast improvement and I've seen genuine HD quality on relatively humble 42" and 50" displays which knocked upscaled DVD into a cocked hat, but it wasn't via a HD-DVD or Blu-Ray player. :0)
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so far Blu ray has a chance, and HD DVD is far from mainstream.
see linkthank you for being a civilized opponent :-)
"...thank you for being a civilized opponent :-)"
I'm not your opponent but am civilised. :0)I do hope Blu-Ray or HD-DVD succeed, because if they do it'll mean the price of the software has come down, but where is the battleship build, over engineered player to showcase either format and impress 'videophiles'?
Once again the race to get one format out before the other has resulted in poor implementations of the technology with the audio side in particular suffering, and........
We could both go on and on but as you say, only time will tell and I think I'll be contributing to another thread of yours in a few months time Ole when we'll have a better idea of how things are developing; if you become involved in manufacturing a player once the technology is more advanced I'll look forward to hearing about it and will be confident it'll tick all the right boxes when it comes to playback.
For now I've just got the news that my partner's pregnant so I've got other things to concentrate on for the time being. :0)
Have you seen this link?
....she's a massive Elvis fan but I've banned her from playing any of his music or videos while I'm in the house.I can imagine her bombarding our unborn child with her vast collection, and eventually giving birth to a son with a predisposition for burgers, banana fritters and ridiculous sideburns. :0(
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