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  1. Comment - HD DVD: Blu-ray Has Problems

    (Jan 12, 2006 - 1:02 AM)

    There is a great big myth about BETA.

    1. on the consumer level SONY made the mistake of not allowing other manufacturers to have BETAMAX at its launch.
    2. In some markets such as Brazil BETAMAX was King for years.
    3. The idea that BETA technology lost is a very provincial consumer perspective. Betamax which was an off-shoot of 3/4 Umatic went on to became BETACAM which then became BETACAM SP which then became DIGIBETA. Digital Betacam has been used to broadcast 90% of all TV transmissions that you have watched since the early 90's. Recently hard-drives have begun to take over but DIGITBETA is the world broadcast standard for SD television. It is the format off which most of your SD DVD masters were authored to disc either directly or to hard-drive from digibeta then to DVD.
    4. SONY BLU-RAY has a great deal of professional and industrial usage HD-DVD has none. So SONY if they lost at consumer level could still take their disc format in the 50gb form to movie theatres, TV channels, hospital applications, oil industry, marine biology etc
    You name it.

  2. Comment - HD DVD: Blu-ray Has Problems

    (Jan 12, 2006 - 12:54 AM)

    The question of BLOCKBUSTERS to me means nothing. I have taste in cinema and the will power not to watch crap.

  3. Comment - HD DVD: Blu-ray Has Problems

    (Jan 12, 2006 - 12:31 AM)

    SD-DVD should remain in its existing form and NOT put on an HD-DVD.
    There is NO way to get SD playback off an HD-DVD without reducing the quality of the SD presentation by a reduction of 50%.
    SD must remain in its SD only form NOT as a reduced quality piggy-back!!
    If HD-DVD takes the market they will kill off SD discs and force SD to only be available as a single-layer on a HD-DVD creating a false difference in quality between SD and HD by having made SD only half as good as it is now.

  4. Comment - HD DVD: Blu-ray Has Problems

    (Jan 12, 2006 - 12:24 AM)

    Does it not occur to you that the SD layer is only 50% the spec of a normal proper SD DVD?

  5. Comment - HD DVD: Blu-ray Has Problems

    (Jan 12, 2006 - 12:17 AM)

    You people are deluded fools!!!

    Do you NOT understand that the ONLY way to put an SD DVD version of a movie on an HD-DVD is by reducing the bit-rate of a normal SD-DVD by 50%!!

    Normal DVD's are dual-layer for a reason.
    One layer therefore equals half the picture and sound quality!!!