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In Reply to: It's a marketing ploy. I've yet to see some announcement of backwards compatibility with existing players. posted by oscar on September 11, 2007 at 06:17:47:
50 gigabytes HD DVD, 50 gigabyte Blu-Ray; it doesn't really matter to anyone except some marketing types. The bandwidth issue is a red herring, because you can get around that with lossless compression schemes like TrueHD. And your chances of encountering TrueHD on an HD DVD movie are actually pretty good, since mandatory support for same is part of the basic spec.
What's far more important than these technical tidbits is that you get movies you want to watch, and the transfer/restoration work is good.
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- Most of this "format war" is a marketing ploy - 4season 09:37:34 09/11/07 (13)
- (20% of HD DVD movies have lossless track.... - oscar 10:54:19 09/11/07 (12)
- I probably wouldn't assume that "LPCM" necessarily means "lossless" - 4season 11:34:07 09/11/07 (1)
- 24bit converted to 16 bit PCM still sounds pretty good. - oscar 14:07:42 09/11/07 (0)
- 57% of BD is Lossless according to Blu-raystats.com - Jack G 11:10:48 09/11/07 (9)
- But How Many Players Can Successfully Access Certain Tracks? - Robertc88 05:49:54 09/12/07 (7)
- It means you have to do your homework if your end goal is lossless audio playback. - oscar 06:45:23 09/12/07 (5)
- Not Sure Homework Is The Issue - Robertc88 05:46:52 09/13/07 (4)
- Homework is figuring which of those combinations of receivers/source players will allow lossless playback. - oscar 17:22:10 09/13/07 (0)
- Then get a player with analog out - Jack G 07:04:01 09/13/07 (2)
- Slim Pickings For HD DVD Right Now - Robertc88 10:46:29 09/14/07 (1)
- RE: Slim Pickings For HD DVD Right Now - Jack G 05:55:53 09/15/07 (0)
- ????? - Jack G 06:17:47 09/12/07 (0)
- Low bitrate/inefficient encodes result in less-than-stellar PQ. - oscar 13:58:12 09/11/07 (0)
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