The crap doesn't stop there. HDTV signals are also being highly compressed so that more content can be squeezed in the limited bandwidth they have to work with. So instead of a few VERY good looking HDTV shows, we get a lot of shows with blurry pixel noise in the picture, worse than analog!
I've gotten a few regular DVD's that were made with really bad transfers or were highly compressed. I'm going to be really ticked off if I get a Blu-Ray disk that way.
As for VOD, here's a sad commentary on why we get lousy download speeds, in the U.S. at least. So much for the old line that competition will bring us better telecommunications. WTF! http://spectrum.ieee.org/jan08/5832/bbrates
Obviously it is easier to wire an island (or 4) for broadband.
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:03 pm
by Red_5
If that high-capacity multi-layer disc tech comes to market here soon, a 1TB iPod is sure to be inevitable
And then think about external drives and net servers.
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:19 pm
by Krom
1 TB disks... Ahh how that would be nice, backing up my entire DVD collection in 2 disks instead of over 400...
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:30 pm
by Red_5
400 Disks?! Owch! I recomend blowing about $500 on a 1TB WD drive. In the long term, it'd probably be worth it.
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:41 pm
by Krom
Why would I spend $500 on a 1 TB WD drive when I could get two for that price including shipping?
And besides the point, I already have over 1 TB of hard drive space, but I've seen to many hard drives fail to trust them. Which brings us back to optical media, in the long term when properly cared for it is far more reliable than hard drives.
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:45 pm
by Red_5
Dang it, I meant 2 drives...
A good point though, concerning drive life. I pray that they get those multilayer discs into stores in the near future here.
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:55 pm
by Krom
Yeah, never trust a hard drive. Fine one minute, click of death the next. I've seen it happen to a bunch of people around here. If I wasn't so paranoid about it I would be using a couple big drives because it is so convenient compared to all this burning.
Fortunately DVDs are way cheaper by the gigabyte than hard drives of any capacity so even though I go through so many disks its still affordable.
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:57 pm
by Red_5
True true.
I gotta find me some DVD-RWs. Have any idea where I can get those?
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 9:00 pm
by roid
knowing Krom he probabaly has a few terrabyte HDDs already full
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:32 am
by MD-2389
Red_5 wrote:True true.
I gotta find me some DVD-RWs. Have any idea where I can get those?
...umm, everywhere? Why worry about an RW when the R's are like....50 cents a disk now? (sometimes cheaper if you know where to look)
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:25 pm
by Tunnelcat
Newsflash! I was listening to the morning newscast and it was reported that Universal and Paramount are considering going to Blu-Ray only!
If that happens, then Blu-Ray will probably win out. Microsoft will probably not be very happy since they support HD. I'm guessing that their operating systems will not support Blu-Ray in the future out of spite.
It took forever for Microsoft to support DVD, they're always behind the curve. I've got third party software (Ravisent) on my old Win 98 computer because the OS didn't really support the DVD format back then.
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:56 pm
by Red_5
MD-2389 wrote:
Red_5 wrote:True true.
I gotta find me some DVD-RWs. Have any idea where I can get those?
...umm, everywhere? Why worry about an RW when the R's are like....50 cents a disk now? (sometimes cheaper if you know where to look)
I can't seem to find them locally. I do a lot of movie editing and I don't want to waste a whole DVD on like 2 minutes of test footage.
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:47 pm
by MD-2389
Red_5 wrote:
MD-2389 wrote:
Red_5 wrote:True true.
I gotta find me some DVD-RWs. Have any idea where I can get those?
...umm, everywhere? Why worry about an RW when the R's are like....50 cents a disk now? (sometimes cheaper if you know where to look)
I can't seem to find them locally. I do a lot of movie editing and I don't want to waste a whole DVD on like 2 minutes of test footage.
Dude, even Wal-Mart carries them.
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:13 pm
by CDN_Merlin
hahaha great video
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:42 pm
by Tunnelcat
Sweet! Sony's going to have a victory party yet. They want to win at all costs. No more Beta max debacles on their record.
