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Red vs. Blue Lasers Complicate DVD's Future
bnavarro writes: "The EE Times is reporting that the DVD Forum's Steering Committee voted this week to approve the use of low-bit-rate compression for high-definition DVD. The DVD Forum's decision, made at a meeting Tuesday (Feb. 26) in Tokyo, to stick with a red-laser-based scheme but switch to low-bit-rate compression, came only a week after nine of the world's biggest electronics companies agreed to promote a blue-laser-based format for next-generation video and computer optical disks."
better porn?
I don't know about you, but I'm still bitter about the movie houses stopping the release of Laserdiscs.
I've got a couple of DVDs, but as a 'Universal' digital media, it falls real short
I wish that high-end MO disks, or DVD-RAM got as popular in the states as it is in Japan.
--- Do you believe in the day?
They are even worse than spammers! Hell, at least the spammers admit that they're trying to make money. These cultists prey on people's fears - guess what was the topic straight after 9/11 - and make money by ripping off the flock.
And they won't take no for an answer. Do they have a quota to fulfil or something? They come to my door and keep shoving these unsolicited leaflets to me and waste my time talking crap. One of them spouts out a prepared sales talk while the other one just stands there (looking for reactions, I guess). If I am not home, they drop the same leaflets in my mailbox. I've told them every time that "I don't want to see you guys again", but they keep coming back. I wonder if I could sue the slimy bastards for trespassing.
The owls are not what they seem
lol, good analogy :)
I really hope that studios don't look at people's acceptance of divx and say "hey look! people accept the quality of movies that fit into 700MB!", and then start compressing their releases like this.
The reason people accept 700MB divxs is because:
a) they are free
b) the quality is a league ahead of the mpg2 of the same file size
People damn-well want dvd quality if they're paying for it, but most people would prefer free divxs instead. With only mpg2 there were more people who were willing to buy the dvd because the mpg2 encoding that fitted on a cd was sub-optimal quality.
graspee
The Hershey's Times is reporting that the Colored Coating Forum's Steering Committee voted this week to approve the use of low-sugar-rate coating for high-definition RED M&Ms. The Colored Coating Forum's decision, made at a meeting Tuesday (Feb. 26) in Tokyo, to stick with a red-color-based scheme but switch to low-sugar-rate coating, came only a week after nine of the world's biggest candy companies agreed to promote a blue-coating-based format for next-generation coating and coloring optical appeal.
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Dose anyone know a good place to get Laser Disks online? I still have my old player. The only reason I've kept it is because I have the special Akira disk set.