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Don't you mean Blue herring... :0)

Posted by oscar on June 7, 2007 at 10:45:57:
The jury is still out on low vs. high bitrate VC-1 or AVC1 encodes and until we see larger sampling of movies to judge, I'll have to give the high(er) bit encodes the benefit of the doubt. A quick survey of some HD-DVD and Blu-Ray movie material using a combo player and a 126" display system suggested the relatively low bit rate VC-1 encodes had issues with edges on fast motion sequences.

Soundwise, Is it merely coincidence, there are far more Blu-ray discs with uncompressed PCM soundtracks than on HD-DVD ? The Blu-Ray discs have far more flexibility adding decent soundtracks to the movies than HD-DVD. Or you want to blame the studios for not "putting out".

As far as "Blood Diamond" is concerned, the fact that Warner's did such a lousy job, PQ-wise putting this in high definition means I'm disinclined to buy it (it's only plus is the presence of an uncompressed LPCM track you won't see on the HD-DVD version0. For similar reasons, I'm disinclined to buy "Fifth Element" or "House of Daggers" until the studios get it right. "Blood Diamond" might be the best example of what happens when you try to use relatively low bitrate encoding while skimping on the necessary TLC to prevent the video artifacts (e.g. macroblocking) from showing up on the endproduct. Heck, they probably could have gotten a much better result using well-established MPEG-2 encoding on a 50G Blu-Ray disc.

I want the studios to give me the best possible PQ and SQ on the disc before I buy it. The Blu-ray disc gives the studios the best flexibility to get it done plus still have the extra leftover space for the frills/extras some people seem to like.

Anything specifically that Bill Hunt didn't get right in his comparisons of the two formats ?