Re: Dead format outsells Blu-Ray!!

LOL

majortom you are the man. You're officially my favorite poster here now. I just like it when legitimate points are made regarding the state of affairs between Blu-ray and HD DVD pre and post "format war" , yet a certain faction of HD enthusiasts just refused to accept them as such. Oh well, that doesn't make them any less true.

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So again I ask, where's this bluray advantage of higher bandwidth? Nobody has seen a single title look better on bluray that is available on both formats. Why is that? Are they waiting for the format to mature? Bluray has been out since 2006.

You can't tell me every movie that was released on both formats is using the exact same encode and that the companies used HD DVD as the "limiting factor". That's halirious. I would love to see a reputable link confirming this.

Please tell me which studio would be dumb enough to spend double the money to produce the same movie on two different formats? There weren't any. That's why you saw HD port overs released on Blu-ray. It's obvious that it couldn't be done the other way around due to HD DVD's limitations in both disc capacity and/or bandwidth.

So, there you have it. That's why format neutral studios didn't release superior quality titles on Blu-ray.

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I just like it when legitimate points are made regarding the state of affairs between Blu-ray and HD DVD pre and post "format war" , yet a certain faction of HD enthusiasts just refused to accept them as such. Oh well, that doesn't make them any less true.

When I see a bluray movie look better than HD DVD I will agree with you. Until I see one you can spew all the garbage in the world but people need to see it and hear it. Excuses like the studios are saving money to port an HD DVD over to bluray are not only laughable, they are not based on fact. Link please I say.

Considering these studios spend major money to have some of these movies remastered for high definition it doesn't make sense that they would then go and save some money and not take advantage of this higher audio and video bandwidth on bluray.

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When I see a bluray movie look better than HD DVD I will agree with you. Until I see one you can spew all the garbage in the world but people need to see it and hear it. Excuses like the studios are saving money to port an HD DVD over to bluray are not only laughable, they are not based on fact. Link please I say.

Considering these studios spend major money to have some of these movies remastered for high definition it doesn't make sense that they would then go and save some money and not take advantage of this higher audio and video bandwidth on bluray.

See Falcon, you're beyond hopeless, so I'm not even going to waste anymore of my time to argue with the likes of you. It is you who's spewing garbage, not me. I've been enjoying my Blu-rays for quite some time now and will continue to do so for many-many years. You on the other hand can stick with your beloved HD DVD for all eternity for all I care.

[Post edited by gvortex7 on Mar 2, 2008]

Thank you and I will.

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Thank you and I will.

It's a match made in heaven, I'm sure.

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So again I ask, where's this bluray advantage of higher bandwidth?

I'm not sure how anyone could make a legitimate argument for lower bandwidth. This should be a no brainer even for the non-technical. Higher audio bandwidth for one has allowed Blu-ray to place 5.1 tracks in a dozen languages on disk in addition to the English lossless. Higher bandwidth would have allowed HD DVD to put a lossless audio track on Transformers without compromising PQ. Higher bandwidth would have allowed HD DVD to include PiP streams in HD rather than standard. We could go on and on with the advantages of higher bandwidth. If Blu-ray had twice the bandwidth that it does now, it would be even better - not the same, certainly not worse. As I said, this really should be a no-brainer.

And space counts too. I'd rather watch Lawrence of Arabia on one disk and spend the intermission listening to the music with the black screen like the director intended, rather than get up and switch disks.

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majortom you are the man. You're officially my favorite poster here now.

gvortex7, I agree with you. Those were some fantastic posts!