| Dohhh!!! 2006-06-24, 9:25 pm |
| bryandailey@audiorevolution.com wrote:
>http://modernhometheater.com/howto/early_adopter/
What a serious load of self-serving crap.
We should all buy $500 to $1,000 players to encourage the studios to release
titles?
Are you fucking insane?
How about the studios get off their fat money grubbing asses and release some
titles so we can see whether it's worth spending $500 to $1,000 to buy a new
player, idiot.
By the way: the HD DVD H264 encoding engine is currently made by Microsoft,
and is pretty much beta software, with all the quality you've come to expect
from the incompetents in Redmond, whose business plan is always to cater to
the lowest common denominator. The current plan is to compress the living crap
out of HD DVD format titles to make room for every piece of shit you could
imagine on the disk. You will be watching a half hour of commercials and
promos you can't skip before the heavily compressed movie with endless behind
the scenes and on camera commentary starts. I have seen HD DVD titles playing
on a first class set, and they look no better than normal well encoded
standard def titles playing at 480P on a 1080p set. No better. From a $13
movie on a $79 player. Welcome to the future of home video, where crap is
king.
Wait for BluRay to see if things get any better quality wise before you buy
anything.
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