 
|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
|
|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
141.156.130.199
In Reply to: RE: Some is, some is not. posted by racerguy on October 21, 2007 at 08:47:23
That's not good. When I realised, I looked around, and noticed that there were NO open box Samsung 1400 (doesn't need an update), and NO open box HD DVD players.
Jack
Follow Ups:
I asked the salesguy at the store if the sole factory-sealed box was the only sealed one they had, and he told me, "No, we have a whole warehouse full of new ones."
Between that comment and the fact that they were blowing them out at below cost says to me that the players, or at least this particular model, aren't selling well.
OTOH, flat-panel TVs and $100 upconverting DVD players appeared to be flying off the shelves.
Yet another "problem release" in the vein of what we have been talking about. And this is Transformers, perhaps the biggest HD DVD exclusive release yet. I don't care about Transformers or these interactive features, but you've been bashing blu-ray for exactly this kind of thing. Will you bash the HD DVD? Fair is fair, but are you capable of being fair?Seems like it's an Ethernet "Network interaction" that Dreamworks was hoping to exploit on HD-DVD...and it crashed the disc. Not very consumer friendly, eh?
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
Yea, I heard there were a few problems.
Regardless, HD DVD is FAR more consumer freindly than Blu-Ray.
Jack
Have you conducted a poll? Just because your personal experience and the HD DUD skuad over at AVS refuses to acknowledge any positives for Blu-ray or any negatives for HD DVD--that doesn't make it so. Since you're focusing on your own observations, I'll repeat my own experience with Blu-ray...not one glitch so far. Do you think that's unusual? Based on what evidence? Until you can provide some, you might want to back off of these sweeping generalizations in which you totally ignore HD DVD problems and spotlight the supposed problems with blu-ray.
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
No, I'm not surprised the PS3 has had no problems. that's part of the problem. I am well aware of the plusses and minuses of the two formats. After all, unlike you, I own both. BTW, if I had such hatred towards Blu-ray, why did I just buy another player yesterday? As I've said previously, I support both formats, but I do not like the way the BDA does things.
Jack
Yeah, I know that you say you are trying to give both formats a fair shot, but the fact is that you constantly rail on Blu-ray and you cannot say a bad word about HD DVD. That holds true even when HD DVD discs are shown to have problems and the format is known to have a lower capacity that manifests itself as an inability to include uncompressed PCM. In other words, you say you care about quality, but it's just not manifest in your take on the two formats.
I mean, your trip to the store to get a new BD player resulted in more ammunition for you to bash blu-ray. So no, it doesn't seem that you are interested in giving BD a fair shot. I wouldn't touch samsung with a 10 foot pole...that goes for their disc players, their display devices, etc.
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
They had no players on the shelves for Black Friday-second gen was delayed so they barely got any out for Xmas. I BLASTED them for not putting out many titles December through March. Dumbest thing I'ld seen in ages. I caught alot of flack for that too.
> > > That holds true even when HD DVD discs are shown to have problems and the format is known to have a lower capacity that manifests itself as an inability to include uncompressed PCM. < < <
I haven't had many problems with HD DVD-2 discs had glitches out of 75. That's not bad, its not perfect either. As I've frequently said, I like uncompressed PCM, but its low on my priority list. My priorities go like this-1) content, 2) PQ, 3) features, 4) AQ.
> > > In other words, you say you care about quality, but it's just not manifest in your take on the two formats. < < <
No, its just that my priorities are different than yours-I don't know why you cannot accept that.
> > > I mean, your trip to the store to get a new BD player resulted in more ammunition for you to bash blu-ray. < < <
That's certainly not my fault, I didn't go there looking for problems, it just kind of hit me in the face.
BTW, I've had no problems with my Sharp player so far.
Jack
If you continue to have good experience with it, maybe you'll reevaluate your take on BD.
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
> > Yeah, I know that you say you are trying to give both formats a fair shot, but the fact is that you constantly rail on Blu-ray and you cannot say a bad word about HD DVD. That holds true even when HD DVD discs are shown to have problems and the format is known to have a lower capacity that manifests itself as an inability to include uncompressed PCM. In other words, you say you care about quality, but it's just not manifest in your take on the two formats.
I mean, your trip to the store to get a new BD player resulted in more ammunition for you to bash blu-ray. So no, it doesn't seem that you are interested in giving BD a fair shot. I wouldn't touch samsung with a 10 foot pole...that goes for their disc players, their display devices, etc. < <
I'm preserving Jazz' post for posterity, just in case he thinks about deleting it, or realizes that he's again gone too far and decides to edit out the loony paranoid bits. :-)
what player did you buy?
I hear there may be issues with the seamless branching with Spiderman 2, but I don't intend to get any of those movies anyway. My preliminary testing has shown its played everything I've thrown at it (so far) without a glitch, and has a very good picture. Time will tell, I have 30 days.
JackPS. I decided not to wait for the Denon. It will be $2K, a little less for the lesser model, and that's just too much to spend on my tertiary format.
Since there are so few seamless branching Blu-ray discs on the market, Sharp may not have had enough evaluation material. Perhaps they can investigate why their player is being tripped up with that disc and design a fix to be implemented in a firmware update.
It's like arguing with a six-year-old.
> > BTW, if I had such hatred towards Blu-ray, why did I just buy another player yesterday? < <
I'm sure you did it just to annoy Jazz! ;-)
| FAQ |
Post a Message! |
Forgot Password? |
|
||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
Top of Page ]
[ Contact Us ]
[ Support/Wish List ]
[ Copyright © 2024, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]
