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Anybody has seen a Blue Ray movie?
Is it really that much better?
Is it really that much better?
What do you mean HDTV will come into effect in 2009? It's been around for years already...Don't forget everything is going large flat screen requiring the higher resolutions. HD tv will come into effect in 2009. Still many do prefer to stay with the dvd format despite the lower resolutions offered there.
[-0MEGA-];764677 said:What do you mean HDTV will come into effect in 2009? It's been around for years already...
Yeah, if Blue-Ray discs weren't putting out a better resolution, that would defeat the purpose of its larger disc capacity.
o yeah. i can wait to see all the crt out on the streat. that is going to kill the enviriment
I'm not disagreeing with you at all, but I wanted to comment. Even though 1080P TV's have a higher resolution, they generally are much larger, such as 42", 61", etc. LCD monitors have a resolution of 1920x1200 on a 24" display.The 1080p HD screens have more detail than than most computer screens 1080p is 1920 x 1080 resolution. The new Sony HDTVs have a mega high contrast ratio so you get far more colour brightness and darkness range to take advantage of whats on the BluRay.
A few points to make
1.) The discs don't provide a higher resolution, the discs provide more storage, which enables the content to have a higher resolution. A DVD9 can old just over 8GB, a BR disc can hold 50GB, if you wanted to you could split a high def. video onto a few DVD9s and pop it in a DVD player that has HDMI or 720p+ over component and you'd get the same high def.resolution.
2.) There will be adapters to allow older, non-high def. sets to work properly, this was announced long ago. Therefor, I doubt that you'll one day see hunreds of old CRT TVs on the streets
3.) I had a BR player for awhile and I have to say that the resolution wasn't the greatest thing out there.. sure it output 1080p to my set, but I could barely see the difference between that and an upconverted DVD, and I'm picky.
That's not to say that there isn't a huge difference in resolution, that's just me sayng that DVD is 100% acceptable and there's no real need for me to make the move to one of the higher def. formats.
4.) Most people won't make the switch to HDDVD/BR until the price comes down, or until they're forced to.
All that aside, BR is a great format if you've got the $900 for a good player and a few videos
most consumer DVD-Video disks use either 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio MPEG-2 video, stored at a resolution of 720×480 (NTSC) or 720×576 (PAL).
Just a little clarity on the issue... I work for comcast and here is what we are doing. By law all of our cable must be broadcast in HD format in 2009 january 1 2009 to be exact. As of january 1 2008 all of our HDTV subscribers will recieve all channels in HDTV. There is even talk to take the charge off their bill. But in 2008 all cable will be hd so we will take it off then as we cannot legally charge for it anymore. Also we are providing as required by law free converters for those who cannot afford a new tv or do not want a digital cable box(does it for you already) free of charge. This will be a major new change and i'm ready for it. There is a slight problem that has yet to be addressed though as the older shows will look really really really bad when broadcasted in hd if you have a hd now just go to a non hd channel imagine that but worse...