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Blu-ray vs. HD DVD Round Two
An anonymous reader writes "A second set of four movies are now available on both high-def disc formats, allowing for another set of head-to-head comparisons — and unlike last month's first round comparisons, Blu-ray fared much better this time. In fact, in comparing Warner's four latest Blu-ray disc releases ('Firewall,' 'Lethal Weapon,' 'Blazing Saddles' and 'Full Metal Jacket') to their HD DVD predecessors, High-Def Digest found three of the four titles to be more or less at picture quality parity. The key difference between these titles and Warner's Blu-ray launch titles last month? On all three of the titles receiving high marks, Warner switched from using the MPEG-2 compression codec to VC-1, which the studio has been using from the start on its counterpart HD DVD releases."
Hurry! We have to replace our media collection before the next format comes out!
Nothing like seeing tenticle rape in 1080p.
If the problem might be the microwave oven, it means you need to disconnect it from your home entertainment system ASAP.
What??? and miss the chance to a high def version of blazing saddles???? I think the high paid suits at the studio are a little smarter than your average /. reader and they realize that the sure way to entice people to buy an overpriced, overhyped, underperfoming, DRM laden, format constrained, cumbersome way to watch overpriced movies is to lead with a film that is best remembered for a cowboy farting contest as ones as one of the first titles to be offered!
I work in porn, and I couldn't possibly agree with you more. Unfortunately, it's a great marketing point amongst online distributors to offer ever higher resolutions of the content. It puts a strain on storage systems, media manipulation tools, the bandwidth required to serve it all, you name it. The worst part is, you really can see every little blemish, and it ain't pretty. I'm all for halting shit at 640x480. Have you ever seen a close up still of a vagina in 4k resolution? Damn things look like monsters.
Perhaps the answer to the problem of teenagers dropping bricks from motorway and railway bridges is to sue Tetris.