Video Asylum

TVs, VCRs, DVD players, Home Theater systems and more.

Use this form to submit comments directly to the Asylum moderators for this forum. We're particularly interested in truly outstanding posts that might be added to our FAQs.
You may also use this form to provide feedback or to call attention to messages that may be in violation of our content rules.

You must login to use this feature.

Inmate Login

By default, logging in will set a session cookie that disappears when you close your browser. Clicking on the 'Remember my Moniker & Password' below will cause a permanent 'Login Cookie' to be set.

Moniker/Username: The Name that you picked or by default, your email. Forgot Moniker?	Examples "Rapper", "Bob W", "joe@aol.com".
Password:	Forgot Password?
	Remember my Moniker & Password ( What's this?)

If you don't have an Asylum Account, you can create one by clicking Here.

Our privacy policy can be reviewed by clicking Here.

Inmate Comments

From:
Your Email:
Subject:

Message Comments

Original Message

as of today, it's over 50%

Posted by Joe Murphy Jr on January 5, 2008 at 18:21:13:
As of today, 50.35% of Blu-ray releases are using 50GB discs. This is from the stats site that I posted a while back. That's a strong showing for "vaporware", don't ya think?
:-)

As to DTS-HD Master Audio decoding, the blame lies equally with DTS and the chip manufacturers. DTS: they said it would take more processing power than DTS-HD High Resolution (which manufacturers knew the numbers for), but they didn't say how much more. Chip manufacturers: they should have pressed DTS for better info or at least designed their chips with significantly more processing power. By the way, Keith Jack of Sigma Designs admits that his company dropped the ball. I'll cut him some slack -- they only deserve half of the blame.

Scroll way, way down past that ever growing number of Blu-ray discs to see the