HIGH DEFINITION DVD

[JAKE-14]

CAN SOMEONE TELL ME MORE ABOUT HD-DVD? I KNOW IT WAS KINDA DISCUSSED IN THE STAR WARS DVD DISSCUSION, BUT I WANT TO KNOW IF IT WILL HAVE BETTER QUALITY THAN DVD, TAKE OVER DVD, OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. I GOT A DVD PLAYR IN JUNE, AND I ALREADY HAVE 15, AND I WANT TO KNOW IF DVD WILL BE TAKEN OVER JUST LIKE LASERDISC WAS. :CONFUSED:

[QUENTIN]

Ha ha your all caps has come back and bit you on the ass. you can't make a /ubb/confused.gif face becuase the word confused can't be capitalized.

[JAKE-14]

WELL, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, YOU WROTE IN ALL CAPS JUST UNTIL A BIT AGO WHEN JOBLO

SAID YOU WERE YELLING!!!!!!!!!!

[stefanb]

Jake-14,

Remove head from sphincter, then come back and join the forum when you've found the ability to type normally. Seriously, look at what you wrote:

Originally posted by JAKE-14:
WELL, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, YOU WROTE IN ALL CAPS JUST UNTIL A BIT AGO WHEN JOBLO SAID YOU WERE YELLLING!!!!!!!!!!

So you apperently know this is a stupid practice, but you still continue to do it.

Perhaps you're a little :CONFUSED: /ubb/confused.gif

[This message has been edited by stefanb (edited 06-27-2000).]

[stefanb]

More on topic, here's a brief page describing the whole LucasFilm/HD-DVD scenerio:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/Members/s.roberts/lucas.htm

As for the players themselves, the companies are still fairly tight-lipped. I don't think they want to damage their current sales of regular DVD players, by announcing they'll be introducing a new format.

[JAKE-14]

Now, is this better?? Thanks for the info, Stefan

[JAKE-14]

But will the picture in HDDVD look better? Dvd looks almost as clear as real life! The sound is great too, but if they come out with all this new whacked out shit, then I'll buy it, just to keep up with technology.

[stefanb]

Well, it's not really the type of thing you look at as being better or worse, just higher or lower definition.

Forget anolog pictures even exists for the time being. Take a TV like mine - I have a 50" Zenith that can handle 1000 lines of horizontal resolution. Now, your basic DVD player, like my Panasonic, can crank out about 525 lines of horizontal resolution. Quick math will tell you that the TV is cabable of way more then it's getting input to it, so the TV is displaying the the same infomation on multiple lines to compensate for the lack of input from the DVD player. Now, when I hook my computer into my tv at 1024x768, I'm using WAY more of the resolution lines my TV is capable of. Essentially, it's a better picture. Frankly, I don't see the difference at all, and the I personally think the DVD player gives a better picture then the computer screen bouncing around the Internet using the TV as a monitor. Let's say that HDDVD or even the next step beyond that -- UDDVD (Ultra definition DVD) puts out... (I'm only GUESSING HERE - I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE REAL NUMBERS ARE) Anyway, let's just say the new technology puts out 800 or 1200 lines of resolution. Then my TV is no longer needing to compensate for a lack of data input and it's using the full potential of the screen. My TV is a regular NTSC style TV. The new (and VERY EXPENSIVE) TV's are HD-TV's. They can crank out way more lines of resolution. Eventually, as the theory goes, they could present so much data on a TV screen that the human eye can't distinguish between the pixels. Sit really close to your TV sometime... you can see each individual squares that makes up the BIG picture. Well, logically, as you make those individual squares smaller, you make the picture better. However, you need an input signal that makes use of the smaller squares or else the whole concept becomes pointless. If we go several years into the future, lets say that TV's will be able to support 10,000 lines of resolution, and whatever DVD-type media we use at that point to watch movies can produce 10,000 lines of resolution, well, we've achieved perfection (or close to it).

You said DVD looks ~real~ already. One day, you'll look back on that statement and feel dumb you said it. Hell, nobody thought original TV would be improved on. Then they added color. /ubb/smile.gif Nobody though the sound quality of cassetts would by passed, and many years ago, a head executive at IBM once said "Computers of the future may one day weigh less then a ton" Well, he was right, I suppose. /ubb/wink.gif Everything can be made better. Theoretically, there's no limit to the increase in picture quality. Eventually you just can't tell the difference anymore (that's when you stop). But we certainly aren't there yet.

[This message has been edited by stefanb (edited 06-28-2000).]

[JAKE-14]

damn your smart

[stefanb]

Nah, I just spend the better part of my day sitting here reading movie reviews and surfing around to see all the latest toys at panasonic.com and various other pages of that sort. The scary thing is that I'm getting paid enough to have a 50" TV, DVD player, and every other toy in the room while I do this. /ubb/smile.gif