Blu Ray wins!

[Chugnut]

(ZG will be along with a Roy Batty quote in minute.)

"Wake up! It's time to die!" - Leon.

Gah! Wrong again.

[The Lone Gunman]

The LG multi blu reads and writes blu ray and reads HD.
HTPC is home theatre pc as previously stated.
HD is not necessarily dead yet as (I believe) it is quicker and may be the pc gamers platform of choice.
May revise the choice of drive if HD is dead.
Other features are graphics card with HDMI tv connection. 7.1 surround sound card and dual tv and satelite TV card allowing unit to be a PVR. Watch one record another digi recorder.
Planning v fast hard drive wit 1T of secondary storage.

Looking at approx 1500 quid dependant on spec. Mine will cost that in components.

[The Lone Gunman]

"The light that shines twice as bright shines for half as long and you have shone so very very brightly Roy"

[The Lone Gunman]

I think I might have got that wrong. Should I have used burn instead of shine?

[PAH]

New CGI sequences in BladeRunner? Chuffin' sacrilege! (ZG will be along with a Roy Batty quote in minute.)

Fortunately to the non-fanatical fan, they are very well done. Though obvious due to their superior clarity.

Isn't just releasing older films in HD shameless profiteering cos the source is the problem? I thought that the reason "Planet Earth" looked so good in HD was they were actually using new spangly HD cameras to showcase the medium.

You may have a point, up to a point. New HD digital cameras may be good, but older film based cameras had just as good resolution due to them being analogue, and it's the grain of the filmstock used that usually limits the overall quality.

Maybe it's true, only on very large screens 50-60+ inches will we notice the biggest difference.

[IR35 Avoider]

The source need not be a problem for films, as film effectively has a higher resolution than HD.

Of course it depends on the mastering process. I have two different releases of "Blue Velvet" on DVD, and they both look like they were copied from VHS tape. They are so bad that I can't even bring myself to sell them on Ebay - will probably just throw them away.

[oracleslave]

It's officially over

[TheFaQQer]

Hopefully Microsoft will do something quickly to put a dual player into an XBOX 360.

At least this one was over quickly, rather than the 10 years it took for Betamax to finally die off.

BUT - are Blu Ray still refusing to do p0rn??? Good job that bitTorrent does is fine

[Spacecadet]

BUT - are Blu Ray still refusing to do p0rn??? Good job that bitTorrent does is fine

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[oracleslave]

Hopefully Microsoft will do something quickly to put a dual player into an XBOX 360.

Get a PS3

HTH.