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RE: Really? Until the prices are equatable and more desired titles are available, HD is still on the leading e

Posted by oscar on June 21, 2007 at 14:58:08:
>As I stated below, I have no dog in this hunt, but I'd rather purchase a universal player or a cheap HD player and buy the movies I want than purchase the theoretical front-runner technology with more data space that is ALSO

>1) more expensive,

for now, but what's $100-200 for an "early adopter" ?

>2) fraught with QC issues,

Early Blu-Ray releases might have had PQ issue and early firmware issues because the standards are still evolving: but the software releases are hitting their stride with the release of high bit rate AVC encodes with lossless audio tracks on dual layer discs. Arguably exceeding the PQ of anything currently on HD-DVD. In contrast, check out the grumbling about half-baked PQ from current Universal releases. Granted these are older catalog releases but still they probably could have put more TLC into the getting the possible PQ (and they need the PQ to be far better than the DVD versions because of the price premium and doubledipping).

Most of the hardware/firmware issues have been ironed out except for the advanced features which haven't made it into the hardware (e.g. DTS HD MA decoding, the java crap I'm not interested in, etc). If I didn't already have a 720p display, I would have held out until the hardware/firmware was more mature.

>3) robustly region locked,

I agree with you here but for me that would be concerning UK releases I might be interested in but which likely won't be available for years anyway.

>4) and doles out fewer desired titles than the competition.

that's a matter of taste. There are very few HD-DVDs on my Gottahave list including "Matrix"; but I'm holding out for the Blu-Ray version later this year. I have "King Kong" and "Serenity" but both could have been better; maybe when they re-release on Blu-ray, I'll get versions with lossless audio and even better PQ (particularly with "Serenity") :o)

Oh yeah, I expect size to matter when/if the "Lord of the Rings" trilogies become available. E.g. it might mean the difference between a single Blu-ray disc or two (2) HD-DVD 30G disks to hold the movies.