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Sony Announces Date for Blu-Ray Roll Out
yermoungder writes "Reuters is reporting that 'Sony Pictures on Tuesday said it aims to deliver its new Blu-ray DVD format to U.S. stores on May 23 to coincide with the entry of compatible disc players, a new step in an industry war for control of home movie viewing.'"
I have a 46" HD DLP TV. Standard DVD's look pretty good on that and I'm happy with them. HDTV looks really good, but a good DVD is pretty good.
I also have a projector that shoots onto about a 96" screen. Here the DVD resultion is lacking and I am pretty excited about HD DVD's. Though I'm not as excited about having to run a new cable through my ceiling due to the stupid HDMI requirement. If HDMI is the only sticking point I'll probably bow and give in. If they have stupid DRM crap that only lets you use one player then that is a different story.
If I just had my TV, I would be slow to upgrade to HD DVD's. With the projector it's a different story.
the fact that blu-ray's overboard drm scheme supposedly requires me to connect to the internet to watch a video
That is not correct.
and will reject home-made disks which lack the "digital imprimature".
Nope, that's also wrong. Several companies have announced "consumer" Blu-ray authoring software.
, provided you have quality equipment
More acurately: provided you have large screen equipment or sit rather unusually close to your tv.
Wish I could remember that site which had the mouseover comparisons of the two formats.
Precisely the sort of nonsense that I refer to by people sitting unusually close to their TVs. Mousing over the difference sitting under 36 inches away from the screen is meaningless. Have someone ELSE do the mouseover while you sit in a chair 8 feet away. Then decide if its worth a $1000 player, and re-purchasing all your movies again.
On a big projection system it can be a big difference at normal viewing distances, but on a regular size "hdtv" its almost irrelevant, unless you're in the habit of watching your TV from 3 feet away.
"should be almost no artifacting introduced (sorry, the BMP files were too large to use)."
jpg isn't really losless. How can you compare images being processed and compressed?
Added to that, two different players? (I used WinDVD 6 to capture files from the DVD, and Elecard Mpeg2 player to capture from the HD stream)
There will be more detail with the HD stream, but I think his cute mouseovers don't say much accurate in that way.
Here's the link.
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1