HD DVD vs. Blue Ray SETTLED?

Loki said:
The amount of TV that can display a full 1080p signal over analog component cables is miniscule. And those that are 1080p all now have HDMI so this option is pointless now anyways.
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Go back and read what I said. I said that people who have older HDTVs which ONLY have component input (no HDMI) will need to buy new TVs in order to obtain the full benefit of either Blu-Ray or HD-DVD. That was my only point.


You seem to have it out for blu-ray based on your postings... any particular reason?
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Where do I say anything "bad" about Blu-Ray that I didn't also say about HD-DVD? I'm pretty sure my entire point was about HD disc of any kind.

I said I don't care about PS3, and I don't. But that's not the same thing.
 
From Wikipedia:

"MPEG-2 was used by many studios including Paramount Pictures (which suprisingly used the efficient VC-1 codec for HD DVD releases) for the first series of Blu-ray discs that were launched throughout 2006. Modern releases are now often encoded in either H.264/AVC or VC-1 allowing film studios to place all content on one disc reducing costs and improving ease of use, using these codecs will also free many GB of space for storage of bonus content in HD (1080i/p) as opposed to the SD (480i/p) typically used for most titles. Some studios (such as Warner Bros.) have released bonus content on discs encoded in a different codec than the main feature title, for example the Blu-ray release of Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone uses VC-1 for the feature film and MPEG-2 for bonus content (presumably because it is simply ported from the DVD release)."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu_ray#Codecs_.28coding-decoding.29
 
Supposedly PS3's are the only Blur-ray players worth buying, as they are the only upgradeable ones on the market right now. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Is there another Blu-ray player you can hook up to the net and upgrade it's firmware?
 
I think Play Station 3 is the only way to go. Play Station 3 plays my burned Data DVD's with no problem but a regular Blu-Ray player always spits these discs out. I suppose I could convert HDV to AVCHD to enable playback but then I would have long render times.
 
Daygola814 said:
Supposedly PS3's are the only Blur-ray players worth buying, as they are the only upgradeable ones on the market right now. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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Well, the PS3 is arguably the best BD player out right now due to much, much more powerful and advanced hardware than standalones. The Panasonic BD30 is supposed to be pretty nice, and its the standalone player I'm recommending to people. But the BD30 is Profile 1.1 (bonusview) and will not be upgradable to Profile 2.0 (internet connectivity). All other standalones currently available are Profile 1.0 (excepting the LG dual format player and possibly the Samsung duo player as well).


Daygola814 said:
Is there another Blu-ray player you can hook up to the net and upgrade it's firmware?
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The Samsung BD-P1400 has an ethernet port that can be used for upgrading the firmware. Of course it can't download new hardware to support more profiles, so its limited to standard firmware fixes only. The PS3 is now - with latest firmware - Profile 2.0 capable.

Oh and I own the BD-P1400... not so hot. Unless someone finds a 1.0 standalone for much less than a PS3, none of them are really worth it in my opinion. They're all slow, don't support 1.1 or 2.0 features and, frankly, they can be a bit buggy. I cross my fingers every time I spin up a movie in my Samsung, as it has frequent HDMI dropouts and/or lockups (and thats with the latest firmware updates). There are people with Samsung BD-P1200s that actually have to choose which version of the firmware to install based on which bugs it fixes/introduces.
 
nah blue ray for xbox

nah blue ray for xbox

PatrickLawler said:
there's also talk of bringing blu ray to the xbox 360, which was originally made for microsoft's hddvd haha
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nah microsoft wont have 360 blue rays yes workstation support but i dought blue ray whould step into th e360 relm just a commen sence feeling why whould xbox give blue ray the helping hand for there market nah man itll be non volitile add ons like nintendo back in the day microsoft still has to compete in the game councile department ,i just dont for see blue ray support thru 360 xbox its not a competive move on the xbox360,maybe droped prices on downloadble games
all thouh microsoft is the 800 pound gorilla of computer companys and literaly needs no compition or have any but boys will be boys and competing is what they do.
 
androbot2084 said:
I think Play Station 3 is the only way to go. Play Station 3 plays my burned Data DVD's with no problem but a regular Blu-Ray player always spits these discs out. I suppose I could convert HDV to AVCHD to enable playback but then I would have long render times.
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besides all of the other stuff, you can connect a usb drive to the ps3 to view your HD footage at full rez on your tv. no other BD player does this to my knowledge. so until BD burners and media come down in price, this still seems like the best way to get your footage on an HD screen.

and it plays BD discs, and it plays games, and you can watch youtube vids on your tv, and surf the web. no brainer....
 
plus with Nullriver's MediaLink ($20 app) you can stream your itunes library (and any folder on you computer) to your PS3. I've got a 1TB drive with a bunch of my DVDs ripped with Handbrake on there and they look great streaming over. Once I get around to converting my DVDs, I plan on boxing them up into storage to make room for my growing BD collection.

Of course Nullriver has a similar app. But as far as BD players go, PS3 ftw.
 
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