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DVD Format War Already Over?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the there-were-these-things-called-laserdiscs dept.

An anonymous reader writes "'Nobody likes false starts' - claims the assertive and risky article "10 Reasons Why High Definition DVD Formats Have Already Failed" published by Audioholics which outlines their take on why the new Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD formats will attain nothing more than niche status in a marketplace that is brimming with hyperbole. Even though the two formats have technically just hit the streets, the 'Ten reasons' article takes a walk down memory lane and outline why the new DVD tech has a lot to overcome."

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  1. They left one out by Nybble's+Byte · · Score: 5, Funny

    Vinyl sounds better.

    1. Re:They left one out by Tumbleweed · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually in my Honda Civic the vinyl sounds mostly like a room full of cats regardless of the source material.

      Yeah, but that's probably the Civic you're hearing, not the vinyl. :)

    2. Re:They left one out by Odin's+Raven · · Score: 5, Funny
      Actually in my Honda Civic the vinyl sounds mostly like a room full of cats regardless of the source material. I haven't figured that out yet but I assume it's just that the awesome bandwidth of the vinyl sound is just overloading my system.
      Hey, like I had like the same problem, but then I upgraded the factory radio to a 'Type R' radio (incredible deal from this guy - he's like into the import/upgrade business, and sneaks out a couple of Type R radios each month and sells them from the back of his car - they're like over $1000 if you could even get one, which you can't cuz you need like this special license so don't even try, but that import dude will part with his "extras" for $200 which is just so schweet cuz he can like write them off on his insurance or something). And then I got these like special audio spoilers that clip onto the speakers (the dude I got them from - no, not like the import/upgrade dude, this dude is like a different dude - hangs out with that other guy, yeah, the one with the weird hair), and he said they keep the higher-velocity notes from producing delaminated/nonlabial/nonlaminar/whatever-the-hell airflow - I guess that's like 95% of the distortion once you upgrade the radio. So like the sound now is just so freaking incredible, and like everyone I meet is like all "hey Raven dude, we can't believe you actually have a Type R radio and speaker spoilers" and like roll their eyes cuz they're so jealous ROFLMAO.
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      A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
  2. Re:Troll article by Tumbleweed · · Score: 5, Funny

    The article is a troll. Don't feed the trolls.

    But what about the troll children? Won't anyone think of the troll CHILDREN?!

  3. Re:They might have a point by StikyPad · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's why I laser etch all of my important data into diamond. Sure, it's expensive, but once it's done I can just toss the gems into a bag and I have nothing to worry about. After all, the only thing that will scratch diamond is another.. oh crap!

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    https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
  4. Re:What is the porn industry doing? by greg1104 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not so sure the porn industry needs high-definition.

    My first encounter with higher quality porn came from my days of working on high-end hotel entertainment systems a few years ago. We'd gotten in some samples of DVDs where the manufacturer was touting the high video production quality of the product, all the way to using a higher than average bit-rate when encoding; none of this soft focus stuff. My boss wanted to know whether there was a big enough difference there that it would make for a good demo (the real money in hotel video on demand is all in the porn). As a single guy who had a 65" HD-capable Toshiba rear-projection CRT setup at home, I was the obvious flunky to check that out. I watched for a bit that night and brought the DVDs back the next morning, frown on my face. When asked "what's the problem?", I said "two words: razor bumps. I don't need to see that much detail."

    Fast forward to last year. My sister had a nice HD LCD TV, so she jumped at the chance to get her cable upgraded with Comcast's HD box ("The Sopranos" in HD was the big draw). Late one night I stopped by, wired up the component video, sorted out the surround sound issues, and went browsing around the channels for good HD content to show the result off. After going through a few channels of "HD" that was obviously just upsampled junk, I found an unexpected source for some great quality video obviously shot in real high-def: HBO's "Cathouse", a documentary series about the goings on at a Vegas brothel. This was just amusing for a bit, and then I saw her eyes get big and she moved closer to the TV. She works in cosmetic surgery, and her first comment about the picture was "my God, I can tell you what they did wrong when they stitched her boobs back together".