Okay, first of all some studios are starting to shoot digitally these days, and the preferred resolution so far is 1080P. Also, 1080P/24 is used more and more on the work print of a movie. It's downsampled to 480P later for DVDs. A simple search on the internet will show that.
What you call real HD resolution are CONSUMER HD resolution.
HDTVs are about $2,000 for a cheap one 42 inch TVs are around 1500CAN$(boxing day specials) right now. You can also get a nice home projector for 1700CAN$ which does 480i, 480P, 525(575?)i, 525(575?)P, 720P and 1080i, so it's pretty handy if you're moving to a PAL region.
should at least go for 50 years 1080i already has a major drawback because it's interlaced and 1080P should just be on every monitor NOW, not in a few years. Use 1080i in combination with a 98 inch screen (with a home projector) and you'll realise we can already see the pixels. Of course, that's pretty extreme, but the fact that anyone with a sub-2000CAN$ (in this case the excellent Sanyo PLV-Z1) piece of hardware can see the limitation in something that isn't even widespread right now means that it could be much better.
Before you start spouting off about what should and shouldn't be, develop an understanding of what you're trying to talk about on Slashdot. I did. It's not because you've never heard of 1080P that it doesn't exist, and studios are not using it. Do a simple search on 1080P on google and you'll see what I mean.
Why is that? The new HDTVs (that haven't even caught-on yet) don't support it, and it's not like TV standards change every week.
Well, I see it this way : people right now don't see the point to buy a HDTV because so little content is in the HD format right now.
If the DVDs were already in 1080P or say, 2048P (I'm not sure it's a real HD resolution though), everyone who would have DVDs would have a use for HDTV2 TV sets when they come out in 5-10 years. Also, since a lot of studios are already shooting in 1080P, why not just transfer print in 1080P to the DVD?
Don't forget also that computers have been able to show HDTV resolutions for years now. So 1080P is definitel viewable right now.
Yeah, but clever use of VBR encoding at high bit-rates reduces audio to about 1/6th of the size and is still studio-quality sound, so why not take advantage of that? Same thing with the video. Uses VBR encoding at high-bit rates and you'll have a "perfect" picture and sound at a fraction of the uncompressed data.
I know there's more to DVDs than movies, but face it, the #1 use of DVDs are for movies.
First of all, make DTS-ES a standard. The only reason why movies that include DTS soundtracks also include Dolby Digital sountrack is because DTS is not standard. DTS is better than DD, so let's make it standard and forget about DD for movies. (audio commentaries should still be in DD though)
Second, make sure there's a lot of storage, cause every movie has to be encoded at least in 1080P (no, not 1080i) and mpeg4. Make sure the standard has room to grow and accept higher-resolution, while making sure players can keep up with every resolutions. The stream also has to include 4:3 fullscreen cropping coordinates so we can stop having fullscreen editions DVDs for folks that watch their DVDs on 4:3 telivisions.
Lastly, forget about the Internet-enabled DVDs and players. I want my content ON THE DISC, not on some remote server.
That's what everyone I know who plays these games have told me. The only Bio-RPG I played so far is KOTOR, which is awesome I have to admit, but I never had the chance to play Baldur's Gate or Neverwinter Nights because I never had a good enough computer to even consider running these. It's a shame really. I'd really like to have these guys opinion on RPGs like FFX, Xenosaga and the JRPGs gameplay.
bioware for president Sorry pal, they're canadians so the best they can be in the US is governor.;) I'm sure they'd make a better government here in Canada though than the liberals though...:p
I'm not sure what you mean by your post. I was just pointing out that Ikagura was originally a Dreamcast game, now ported to Gamecube and boasts the "Only for Gamecube" tag, which means it's not coming to the Xbox. It's a shame cause it seems like a really good game and I still enjoy mindless shooters like 1942 or Blackhack Striker.
The Star Wars franchise is probably the one that contains the most games, so you'd think that any game out of that franchise would be highly derivative? Folks who had the chance to play KOTOR on the Xbox and the PC realized that it was still possible to innovate in the Star Wars universe while preserving the Star Wars atmosphere. Heck, a lot of people have said that it was the best thing that happened to Star Wars after The Empire Strike Back.
Than play with the Xbox versions, it's even better. As for huge landscapes, see Amped, that's a game with a far horizon.
Some PS2 games look good, but all crossplaform games look better on Xbox. Visit websites like Gamespot to see which version is the best and the Xbox one always (except in a few very rare cases) comes first.
Well, less hardware lights means light calculations, but since games rarely use more than two hardware light source. (even games like Spinter Cell use only a light or two, everything else is lightmaps)
I think it's just a trend that started back a few years ago to have dark environments instead of colorfull worlds.
You're right, but if I'm not mistaken, Zelda games have proven to be more and more popular at each new release. (except maybe the GB and GBA games). Maybe people are getting fed up with Zelda games and Mario. Maybe I'm just spouting nonsense.;)
It depends, maybe it's the kind of problem that is really hard to solve, but simple to verify, something like a NP problem. So validating the email would be very quick on the receiving end.
Nintendo may be making money, but their sales are declining (Zelda:WW sold a lot less in a year than Zelda:OoT did in two months). What this means is that at some point they're going to take a hude drop in sales. I see these things as exponential. Sell a great game to someone, he'll show it to a few friends, some of which will buy it, who'll show it to more friends, etc. But if you don't make those initial sales, you're going to take a major hit in sales for your game. So taking a longer time to sell a lot less games could be seen as a real sign of decline.
Well, first of all it won't be any suprise coming from an Xbox owner : Halo 2. The first one was outstanding, and I'm still playing ti regularly even though I've bought 5 other games wince I bought my Xbox and none of these game were crappy (MechAssault, Splinter Cell, Soul Calibur 2, KOTOR and Amped). Halo is just that good.
Another game that doesn't seem to be getting a lot of online press these days is Sudeki. Gigantic 3D worlds with zero loading time, an action-RPG with 3 whole overlapping worlds to explore, every voice being recorded, none of that "Hi, I am Guyen the castle guard" crap we've seen too often if other RPGs **cough**Final Fantasy**cough** and just a whole lot of other things which if pulled of correctly will make for one hell of an RPG (which the big X needs badly).
And there there's Ninja Gaiden (also exclusive), Starcraft : Ghost and X-Files : Resist of Serve (I'm sure it'll be at most an ok game, but I'm an XFiles fan boy, so I can't just shrug it off).
There's Starcraft Ghost that would be really cool for them, but since it comes out on the PS2 also, the Xbox version would need some nefty features (Level downloads with Live? Way better graphics maybe?) to sell boxes.
... with some TECMO head, where he said that the guys who did the bathing suit designs were completely blown away by the female designers because the women were the one who came up with the most revealing bikinis and the most explicit poses for the DOA girls.
The problem is that products like SETI@Home strive for precision, and 32bit vertex shaders just aren't precise enough compared to the 72bits FPU of a x86 CPU.
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At first I thought DTS was VBR, but it turns out DD is the one who is VBR.... :p
;)
So my post doesn't really make sense when I say I'd use DTS and VBR...
VBR works on computers that can handle 2 - 50x the avg bitrate....
Well, since DD is already a VBR format, I guess your point is moot.
So let's all use DVD-Audio and everyone will be happy. Some other poster pointed out that it is better than DD and DTS, so why not use that instead?
Okay, first of all some studios are starting to shoot digitally these days, and the preferred resolution so far is 1080P. Also, 1080P/24 is used more and more on the work print of a movie. It's downsampled to 480P later for DVDs. A simple search on the internet will show that.
What you call real HD resolution are CONSUMER HD resolution.
HDTVs are about $2,000 for a cheap one
42 inch TVs are around 1500CAN$(boxing day specials) right now. You can also get a nice home projector for 1700CAN$ which does 480i, 480P, 525(575?)i, 525(575?)P, 720P and 1080i, so it's pretty handy if you're moving to a PAL region.
should at least go for 50 years
1080i already has a major drawback because it's interlaced and 1080P should just be on every monitor NOW, not in a few years. Use 1080i in combination with a 98 inch screen (with a home projector) and you'll realise we can already see the pixels. Of course, that's pretty extreme, but the fact that anyone with a sub-2000CAN$ (in this case the excellent Sanyo PLV-Z1) piece of hardware can see the limitation in something that isn't even widespread right now means that it could be much better.
Before you start spouting off about what should and shouldn't be, develop an understanding of what you're trying to talk about on Slashdot.
I did. It's not because you've never heard of 1080P that it doesn't exist, and studios are not using it. Do a simple search on 1080P on google and you'll see what I mean.
Hehe, why not. I just don't know a thing about DVD-Audio. DTS-ES 6.1 is the best I've heard so far, that's why I mentionned it. :)
every movie has to be encoded at least in 1080P
Why is that? The new HDTVs (that haven't even caught-on yet) don't support it, and it's not like TV standards change every week.
Well, I see it this way : people right now don't see the point to buy a HDTV because so little content is in the HD format right now.
If the DVDs were already in 1080P or say, 2048P (I'm not sure it's a real HD resolution though), everyone who would have DVDs would have a use for HDTV2 TV sets when they come out in 5-10 years. Also, since a lot of studios are already shooting in 1080P, why not just transfer print in 1080P to the DVD?
Don't forget also that computers have been able to show HDTV resolutions for years now. So 1080P is definitel viewable right now.
Yeah, but clever use of VBR encoding at high bit-rates reduces audio to about 1/6th of the size and is still studio-quality sound, so why not take advantage of that? Same thing with the video. Uses VBR encoding at high-bit rates and you'll have a "perfect" picture and sound at a fraction of the uncompressed data.
I know there's more to DVDs than movies, but face it, the #1 use of DVDs are for movies.
First of all, make DTS-ES a standard. The only reason why movies that include DTS soundtracks also include Dolby Digital sountrack is because DTS is not standard. DTS is better than DD, so let's make it standard and forget about DD for movies. (audio commentaries should still be in DD though)
Second, make sure there's a lot of storage, cause every movie has to be encoded at least in 1080P (no, not 1080i) and mpeg4. Make sure the standard has room to grow and accept higher-resolution, while making sure players can keep up with every resolutions. The stream also has to include 4:3 fullscreen cropping coordinates so we can stop having fullscreen editions DVDs for folks that watch their DVDs on 4:3 telivisions.
Lastly, forget about the Internet-enabled DVDs and players. I want my content ON THE DISC, not on some remote server.
That's what everyone I know who plays these games have told me. The only Bio-RPG I played so far is KOTOR, which is awesome I have to admit, but I never had the chance to play Baldur's Gate or Neverwinter Nights because I never had a good enough computer to even consider running these. It's a shame really. I'd really like to have these guys opinion on RPGs like FFX, Xenosaga and the JRPGs gameplay.
;) I'm sure they'd make a better government here in Canada though than the liberals though... :p
bioware for president
Sorry pal, they're canadians so the best they can be in the US is governor.
+1 Insightfull??? God dammit... I was going for +1 Funny!
I'm not sure what you mean by your post. I was just pointing out that Ikagura was originally a Dreamcast game, now ported to Gamecube and boasts the "Only for Gamecube" tag, which means it's not coming to the Xbox. It's a shame cause it seems like a really good game and I still enjoy mindless shooters like 1942 or Blackhack Striker.
who studies learning and memory, to explain what kinds of memory erasure are currently possible
What about the good old whack behind the head?
The Star Wars franchise is probably the one that contains the most games, so you'd think that any game out of that franchise would be highly derivative? Folks who had the chance to play KOTOR on the Xbox and the PC realized that it was still possible to innovate in the Star Wars universe while preserving the Star Wars atmosphere. Heck, a lot of people have said that it was the best thing that happened to Star Wars after The Empire Strike Back.
Originality is overrated.
Ikagura was also released on the Dreamcast originally and then re-released on the GameCube. It would be nice if it came over to the Xbox.
Than play with the Xbox versions, it's even better. As for huge landscapes, see Amped, that's a game with a far horizon.
Some PS2 games look good, but all crossplaform games look better on Xbox. Visit websites like Gamespot to see which version is the best and the Xbox one always (except in a few very rare cases) comes first.
Well, less hardware lights means light calculations, but since games rarely use more than two hardware light source. (even games like Spinter Cell use only a light or two, everything else is lightmaps)
I think it's just a trend that started back a few years ago to have dark environments instead of colorfull worlds.
You're right, but if I'm not mistaken, Zelda games have proven to be more and more popular at each new release. (except maybe the GB and GBA games). Maybe people are getting fed up with Zelda games and Mario. Maybe I'm just spouting nonsense. ;)
It depends, maybe it's the kind of problem that is really hard to solve, but simple to verify, something like a NP problem. So validating the email would be very quick on the receiving end.
Nintendo may be making money, but their sales are declining (Zelda:WW sold a lot less in a year than Zelda:OoT did in two months). What this means is that at some point they're going to take a hude drop in sales. I see these things as exponential. Sell a great game to someone, he'll show it to a few friends, some of which will buy it, who'll show it to more friends, etc. But if you don't make those initial sales, you're going to take a major hit in sales for your game. So taking a longer time to sell a lot less games could be seen as a real sign of decline.
Xbox is not doing any better thought.
Well, first of all it won't be any suprise coming from an Xbox owner : Halo 2. The first one was outstanding, and I'm still playing ti regularly even though I've bought 5 other games wince I bought my Xbox and none of these game were crappy (MechAssault, Splinter Cell, Soul Calibur 2, KOTOR and Amped). Halo is just that good.
Another game that doesn't seem to be getting a lot of online press these days is Sudeki. Gigantic 3D worlds with zero loading time, an action-RPG with 3 whole overlapping worlds to explore, every voice being recorded, none of that "Hi, I am Guyen the castle guard" crap we've seen too often if other RPGs **cough**Final Fantasy**cough** and just a whole lot of other things which if pulled of correctly will make for one hell of an RPG (which the big X needs badly).
And there there's Ninja Gaiden (also exclusive), Starcraft : Ghost and X-Files : Resist of Serve (I'm sure it'll be at most an ok game, but I'm an XFiles fan boy, so I can't just shrug it off).
2004 will be a great year for an Xbox owner.
There's Starcraft Ghost that would be really cool for them, but since it comes out on the PS2 also, the Xbox version would need some nefty features (Level downloads with Live? Way better graphics maybe?) to sell boxes.
... with some TECMO head, where he said that the guys who did the bathing suit designs were completely blown away by the female designers because the women were the one who came up with the most revealing bikinis and the most explicit poses for the DOA girls.
See Xbox.
If the round of chess is played first, I bet Kasparov could win the championship without even boxing.
And I bet he'd be okay if he ever needed to. I've seen a documentary about him a few months ago and this guy is really in top shape.
Tell me when the apocalypse is over.
The problem is that products like SETI@Home strive for precision, and 32bit vertex shaders just aren't precise enough compared to the 72bits FPU of a x86 CPU.
Well, games like Diablo are the closest we are to that at this point.