The High Definition Report

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SAM33		#2801	[-]
(06/11/08 6:57 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Is it true that this is about the only other "full feature" Blu player besides the Playstation and that it lists for 700 bucks? Yow! SAM33
dhtreptow		#2802	[-]
(06/11/08 11:28 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	The price I was less attracted to I'm guessing it will be $500 by X-mass, but that's still pretty steep.
Michael Elliott		#2803	[-]
(06/11/08 11:50 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	You've also got this upcoming machine, which should have every middle class household in America grabbing up: Panasonic DMP-BD50 MSRP: $699.95
dhtreptow		#2804	[-]
(06/11/08 12:17 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	That's the one were talking about. It's getting good reviews, and if I didn't have the Panny BD30, I'd get it, but no it's no a sell-through model.
Brent Gair		#2805	[-]
(06/11/08 12:56 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I just found the first review of BATMAN The Movie from 1966. I have to say that it is a very, VERY impressive review: http://www.highdefdiscnews.com/?p=985#more-985 Clearly, this is one early review and can't be considered a definitive word. I wish the reviewer would stop saying that Lee Meriwether "looked good, for her time". But the specs are outstanding and it looks like the reviewer was impressed. A 50GB disc with a very high bitrate AVC encode. Furthermore, it seems that SEVERAL of the extra features are in high definition (something usually lacking in catalogue titles). Go figure...BATMAN '66 getting the royal treatment. I'm looking forward to this one.
Jeffrey Allen Rydell		#2806	[-]
(06/11/08 1:52 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	You suckers have about 2 hours to talk me out of buying the 40gb PS3. Get with it! Dang! - Jeff
Bill Warren		#2807	[-]
(06/11/08 2:18 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	You mean you hope a Bluray disc is forthcoming, correct? ?? No, I was wondering IF one was.
riotengine		#2808	[-]
(06/11/08 2:38 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Jeffrey Allen Rydell wrote: You suckers have about 2 hours to talk me out of buying the 40gb PS3. Get with it! Dang! Why don't you just get the 80 gig version that comes out tomorrow? GREG ESPINOZA I made it possible for you to come here! I welcomed you to this Earth, you made it a charnel house! http://www.comicspace.com/gregespinoza/
Jeffrey Allen Rydell		#2809	[-]
(06/11/08 3:02 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	riotengine wrote: Jeffrey Allen Rydell wrote: You suckers have about 2 hours to talk me out of buying the 40gb PS3. Get with it! Dang! Why don't you just get the 80 gig version that comes out tomorrow? It's the 40gb being offered in conjunction with a bonus $100 Wal-Mart gift certificate. Will more hard drive space get me anything on the Blu-ray end? I'm not interested in its gaming features. Oops - according to gaming board scuttlebutt, the 80gb may start showing up in the promotion after midnight. Still... - Jeff Last Edited By: Jeffrey Allen Rydell 06/11/08 3:16 PM. Edited 3 times.
dhtreptow		#2810	[-]
(06/11/08 4:17 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Brent Gair wrote: I just found the first review of BATMAN The Movie from 1966. I have to say that it is a very, VERY impressive review: http://www.highdefdiscnews.com/?p=985#more-985 Clearly, this is one early review and can't be considered a definitive word. I wish the reviewer would stop saying that Lee Meriwether "looked good, for her time". But the specs are outstanding and it looks like the reviewer was impressed. A 50GB disc with a very high bitrate AVC encode. Furthermore, it seems that SEVERAL of the extra features are in high definition (something usually lacking in catalogue titles). Go figure...BATMAN '66 getting the royal treatment. I'm looking forward to this one. Can't polish a turd.
dhtreptow		#2811	[-]
(06/11/08 4:19 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Jeffrey Allen Rydell wrote: You suckers have about 2 hours to talk me out of buying the 40gb PS3. Get with it! Dang! Do it, do it, do it! The minimum PS3 is gonna have more power than any standalone, I'd get the cheapest if your not a gamer.
kolchak72		#2812	[-]
(06/11/08 6:58 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Jameson281 wrote: Bill Warren wrote: F.F. Coppola and Robert Harris are reportedly doing a digital restoration of all three Godfather movies. Can a Blu-Ray release be far behind? I sure the hell hope not. The restorations are already finished, and I think new discs have been released in one country--I think it was Italy or France. The rumor is they'll be released in the U.S. in the fall. Coppola reportedly had little direct involvement, and just told Harris to make Gordon Willis happy. Here's 3 pages of screengrab comparisons of the old DVD VS the foreign release DVD of the restored version: http://www.zonadvd.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=843 and 3 more pages of comparisons for the restored Godfather 2: http://www.zonadvd.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=848
dhtreptow		#2813	[-]
(06/11/08 7:08 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	kolchak72 wrote: Jameson281 wrote: Bill Warren wrote: F.F. Coppola and Robert Harris are reportedly doing a digital restoration of all three Godfather movies. Can a Blu-Ray release be far behind? I sure the hell hope not. The restorations are already finished, and I think new discs have been released in one country--I think it was Italy or France. The rumor is they'll be released in the U.S. in the fall. Coppola reportedly had little direct involvement, and just told Harris to make Gordon Willis happy. Here's 3 pages of screengrab comparisons of the old DVD VS the foreign release DVD of the restored version: http://www.zonadvd.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=843 and 3 more pages of comparisons for the restored Godfather 2: http://www.zonadvd.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=848 Interesting, they pulled a lot more out out the shadows. How do people feel about the amber hue. They pulled a lot stronger blues out of the sky and such, but the fleshtones are now much warmer too. I know when I watched VISIONS OF LIGHT they talked about that type of coloring for the film.
Brent Gair		#2814	[-]
(06/12/08 10:46 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	In keeping with the "report" spirit, I pulled this story off blu-ray.com this morning. There is no attribution other than blu-ray.com. I would have preferred a more independent source such as reuters because I must admit that even I'm surprised by the big numbers. Having no second source for the numbers provided, I'm in no position to make further comment. But here's the report for your examination: "Sony has announced that they have inked a deal with Indiana Secretary of Commerce Nate Feltman to expand the Terre Haute facility. The $133M expansion project will add 85 jobs at the facility which already cranks out 425,000 Blu-ray discs per day (in addition to CDs, DVDs, and UMDs). Mastering, replication, packaging, and distribution areas of the facility will all be expanded to meet ever-increasing demand. Dieter Daum, Executive Chairman of Sony DADC Global, commented, "The rapid adoption of the new Blu-ray Disc format by consumers allows us to quickly expand Blu-ray Disc capacity in the United States. Based on the past experience with manufacturing in Terre Haute, the selection of this facility for the expansion was logical." By October, Sony expects that their three Blu-ray manufacturing facilities (United States, Austria, and Japan) will more than double Blu-ray disc output from 21 to 47 million discs per month."
dhtreptow		#2815	[-]
(06/12/08 12:26 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Now, were not talking BD-R here right? Some times recordable disks and disks destined for gaming get mixed in the soup.
Brent Gair		#2816	[-]
(06/12/08 12:56 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	dhtreptow wrote: Now, were not talking BD-R here right? Some times recordable disks and disks destined for gaming get mixed in the soup. Honestly, I'm not in a position to say. Even as a confessed BD booster, numbers this week are looking almost too good to be true. However, I have now found independent confirmation of the above story (though no iron-clad confirmation that these numbers are all commercial BDs). This info is so new that one report is actually date tomorrow (June 13) because it was filed from Tokyo. Fom the Tribune-Star (I've edited out redundant info): "TOKYO (June 13, 2008) - Indiana Secretary of Commerce Nate Feltman met with senior Sony Corporation executives here Thursday to ink a deal with the technology giant to expand its Blu-ray Disc manufacturing operations in Indiana. The announcement, made during the state's five-day Japanese trade mission, is expected to create up to 85 new jobs in the western Indiana city of Terre Haute as the company invests more than $113 million to expand its one million plus square-foot manufacturing operations. Sony DADC, which currently employs approximately 1,180 associates at its U.S. manufacturing and distribution center in Terre Haute, will hire professional staff, engineers, technicians and operators in connection with the expansion plans. The facility is Sony DADC's only Blu-ray Disc manufacturing facility in the United States and currently produces 425,000 Blu-ray Discs per day in addition to compact discs, DVDs and UMDs. Blu-ray Discs are high-definition, high-capacity optical media discs. "The rapid adoption of the new Blu-ray Disc format by consumers allows us to quickly expand Blu-ray Disc capacity in the United States. Based on the past experience with manufacturing in Terre Haute, the selection of this facility for the expansion was logical. We are thrilled with the support of the State of Indiana," said Dieter Daum, Executive Chairman of Sony DADC Global. As part of the multi-million dollar project, the company will expand its Blu-ray Disc mastering and replication operations at the Terre Haute, Indiana facility and expand its packaging and distribution center to handle the increased production volume, Daum said. Since Blu-ray Disc manufacturing began in Terre Haute in May 2006, the company has produced more than 100 million Blu-ray Discs in its manufacturing facilities in Indiana, Austria and Japan. By October, the three facilities combined will have more than doubled its Blu-ray Disc manufacturing capacity of 21 million discs per month to 47 million discs per month. Source: Indiana Economic Development Corp." Athird source basically repeats the info so You know as much as I know.
Brent Gair		#2817	[-]
(06/12/08 1:50 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I visited thedigitalbits and I noticed that they've updated their system of tracking software sales. Remember when they used to have the weekly BD vs. HD DVD numbers? Now it's BD vs DVD. Once again, the numbers are impressive. In fact, I'd read these numbers on another site yesterday but they were raw and you have do dig through the charts. The numbers are based on the standard Neilsen/Videoscan reports. For the first week of June, the numbers were: BD: 10/DVD: 90 Some might look at that and ask what's so impressive about a 9:1 lead for DVD. But, for those who've been in this thread for a long time, remember back to last year when we were talking about combined BD and HD DVD market shares which were 1% or 2% of the market and DVD had a 50:1 lead. The top 20 BDs for that week sold about 300,000 copies. If you look at the state of HD media one year ago, and look at it today, the landscape has changed significantly. One title in particular caught my eye: NATIONAL TREASURE. It just came out on BD. It had already been out on DVD. Because it was already out on DVD, many regular buyers already had a copy so you, quite naturally, wouldn't expect it to remain a big seller on DVD. Still, for that week, Blu-ray accounted for about 25% of all copies of NATIONAL TREASURE sold. You'd expect BD to have an advantage but that's a real good chunk of sales. This is a fairly popular, recent Disney title and for BD to grab a quarter of the sales for a week is not something that should go unnoticed.
Jeffrey Allen Rydell		#2818	[-]
(06/12/08 2:37 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Bought the Playstation, by the by. Of course. Only picked up a few flicks so far (with the Wal-Mart promotional gift card that came with purchase) - RATATOUILLE, THERE WILL BE BLOOD, FACE/OFF, and DIE HARD. All look varying degrees of awesome. I did spot check some DVDs, and I think the Playstation may actually offer more detailed upconversion than did the XA2 - which is saying something. No viable zoom-up option for 4:3 content, as I'd suspected and Brent confirmed. I'll bet they could add an 'Incremental Zoom' option to the Upscaler Settings via firmware, were they so inclined... At any rate, it's nice to be back in the game after that little 'dead format' hiccup. - Jeff
Michael Elliott		#2819	[-]
(06/12/08 2:42 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I wouldn't trust those numbers too much for one little reason. There aren't many BD discs out there. Please correct me if I'm wrong but the sales numbers only track like the top 100 or top 200 titles being sold. Of course, these are the titles that are selling millions of copies so something like that Hammer/Pirate set wouldn't even hit anywhere close to this. I think these "new" titles are going to do well because they show off the format. It still needs to be seen how something like that Hammer set would sell or if Blue Underground can sell more than a 1000 copies of TWO EVIL EYES. From reports, catalogue titles still aren't selling very well and this here is what I'd keep on eye on more than stuff like INDIANA JONES, NATIONAL TREASURE or PIRATES.
dhtreptow		#2820	[-]
(06/12/08 4:27 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Jeffrey Allen Rydell wrote: Bought the Playstation, by the by. Of course. Only picked up a few flicks so far (with the Wal-Mart promotional gift card that came with purchase) - RATATOUILLE, THERE WILL BE BLOOD, FACE/OFF, and DIE HARD. All look varying degrees of awesome. I did spot check some DVDs, and I think the Playstation may actually offer more detailed upconversion than did the XA2 - which is saying something. No viable zoom-up option for 4:3 content, as I'd suspected and Brent confirmed. I'll bet they could add an 'Incremental Zoom' option to the Upscaler Settings via firmware, were they so inclined... At any rate, it's nice to be back in the game after that little 'dead format' hiccup. Sounds cool, I probably should have gone PS3 in hindsight, but I've not had any issues so far either.

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