Re: Paramount and Dreamworks drop Blu-ray

In article <fahats2bqt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx
wrote:

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:46:04 -0500 Lloyd Parsons <lloydparsons@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
| In article <fag3bv21fl6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx
| wrote:
|
|> On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:21:13 GMT WGD <wgd.roaming1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|>
|> | Good for Paramount and Dreamworks. Hurray for HD-DVD! That will give
|> | SONY
|> | something to think about. SONY is a follower, not a leader. Too
|> | overtly
|> | aggressive for their own good. What is more important is the good of
|> | the
|> | buyer. (Target & Blockbuster blew this one didn't they?) Regardless,
|> | see
|> | no reason to add either format until such time that I add a LARGE
|> | screen.
|>
|> With 25 GB or 50 GB per disk instead of 15 GB or 30 GB per disk, Blu-Ray
|> is still the superior format _with_ a price point that is closing in on
|> the lesser quality format.
|
| You should read the interview excerpts with the CTO of Paramount on
| avsforums.com. It is interesting in that it pretty much debunks the
| theory that the extra space is needed.

Not a reputable source.

The Chief Technology Officer of a major studio isn't a reputable source?

Of course, you'd sing a different tune if he had said just the opposite.



| 30GB gets you about 4 hours of recording time according to him, more
| than enough for any movie being produced these days, with space left
| over for extras.

50GB would get you the same 4 hours of recording time with even less
compression pressure to fuzzy up the picture. Or it would get you
6 hours and 40 minutes at the same level of compression (like having
one of the Star wars trilogies on a single disk).

Then hi def dvds should be fuzzy now? Sorry, other than some movies
that were made that way, I hadn't noticed. Nor have the reviewers all
over the 'net


| As for the 'lesser quality format', well the reviews don't back that up
| at all.

It's a matter of how much compression is needed to fit the content.
This is something the industry can and does tweak. The reason they can
find HD-DVD acceptable is that they know how to tweak that compression
to get it to fit. The consumer loses some quality. There won't be any
side-by-side comparisons for most consumers to see, though, so they will
just accept it. It is like the VHS/Beta thing ... consumers got less
quality, but accepted it.

The quality of many, but not all, of the hi def dvd releases is
excellent, with both formats having lots of titles that show off the
benefit of hi def dvds. Compression techniques are better now than
before, with lossless compression really getting better.

And sure, there will be compromises. But why would you expect there not
to be?


| Then of course is the 'closing in' on the pricepoints. Is $250 your
| idea of closing in?

Look at the difference across time.

As a percentage, the difference has changed quite a bit. As a result of
the phony 'format war', the actual prices of both are much less than
they would have been without it.

But regardless of all the posturing on both sides of the hi def dvd
camps, it is pretty apparent that 98% of the market doesn't give a damn.
And until the current pricing of the players and media takes a serious
tumble, they won't.

If it hadn't been for the 'format war', BD would still be a $1000 entry
point and would be gathering dust on the very few shelves that would
carry them. Hell, one of the big HW announcements in the BD camp was
the $2000 Denon BD player that is coming out. Kind of demonstrates that
the BD side still hasn't got a clue about consumer electronics.
.

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