Meridian Unplugged - Powered by MrTechGuy.co.uk Forums Discussion Meridian - Systems BR Is the King OF HD.

Here's a review of my fav movie on BR.Mod' if you don't like please delete.You need an IA45 analog card to get the best audio out of this disc

http://www.hometheaterspot.com/htsthreads/dvd-review.php?sequence=1742

I will have to watch this in SD as I am holding off HD for now.
It Sounds a good positive film.

I am concerned that for all the Hype the picture is not thought to be perfect in every way by the reviewer. (The whole point of it all I thought).

I suppose this is so that in 5 years time we can all be sold it again with the next latest thing.

Super dooper Bluray extra perhaps.

Cynic, Moi?

Cheers, Chris

Why is he raving about the movie beeing 1080p when he is using a 720p projector to review it? It's like listen to DTS-ES with a stereosystem;)

See even a 720P in HD looks a lot better then the SD and even more the 1080p is NOT the end of the road. 720 has a lot to offer for a long time. Here's a link to his PJ.
http://www.shopandprice.com/App/Products/ProductDescription.aspx?ID=604

My point was that he is actually reviewing the scaler/de-interlacing performed by either the player or the projector. And I agree, a 720p projector looks darn good with HD, but if someone reviews the picturequality of a 1080p movie, it's kind of essential to actually watch the movie in that format also.

I have demoed 1080p and I am still impressed with my current system, I should say "1080p/24 and 1080p/60".Seen the Sony Cinza in action it's pretty good.

Anyone who declares either format a victor at this point in time is seriously misguided.

Both formats are having serious issues; but Blu-ray is having more serious issues. Between poor player performance, high pricing, low disc yields etc etc it isn't much to brag about.

Frankly, the way Blu-ray is going so far they are about 3-6 months away from snatching defeat from the mouth of victory.

HD-DVD isn't doing much better though; and unless things change I fear that both are heading down the path of extinction. I hope I'm wrong; but fear that I'm right.

Cheers,

I tend to agree, although still a bit early. But neither side is currently doing the things necessary to make HD-on-a-disk stick; So far Apple has sold more movies on iTunes at LESS resolution then DVD and only from 1 studio (DIsney);

Unless one side or the other steps it up; at best we'll just see both sides struggle along as niche high end formats...


ken

Amazon are posting healthy sales for both formats, with HD-DVD being the healthier by far. As long as they keep releasing titles I see no reason why that demand won't *increase*. And with the Xbox/PS3 support demand will become even stronger.

I find it an appalling prospect that we could lose the HD formats now that we have tasted them!

Mark

Utterly astonishing. Unless I've been missing something, I have seen no marketing of HD HVD or BD to the general public. What were they expecting? :rolleyes:

Edit: I'm also for one format failing as quickly as possible so that one may flourish.

John, you must be kidding about the future of BR & HD .Since the release PS3 my son was never was into BR or HD but now he wants to know how many movies are released in BR and how soon will SW coming to BR.PS3 already made an impact and it's only a few short weeks.

I think John's right and for these formats its a repeat of SACD and DVD-A. And the number of players out there which could play DVD-As in dolby digital at least is huge.

I don't think the majority of PS3 owners are going to use them for movies and I also don't think the number of PS3s in the market place is high enough to support a new format- at the moment at least.

JMHO.

best regards,
Jerry