digital601 Posted April 6, 2007 Posted April 6, 2007 Sorry have to delete previous poll :-[ Please vote again. Me Toshiba XA2 ;D
htfreak Posted April 6, 2007 Posted April 6, 2007 Actually with the HD-DVD format celebrating its first year annivesary in 9 days time, the term early adopter seems a bit out of context leh. :P Regardless, I'm sure you are enjoying every minute of your XA2 now. ;D
c7221624705751 Posted April 7, 2007 Posted April 7, 2007 yea ur poll is too late already. long time ago there was already a poll. Anything bought in the year of 2007 is no longer an "early adopter".
SiriuslyCold Posted April 7, 2007 Posted April 7, 2007 its still relatively early what with the first models of whatever officially available locally those who bought from US were the bleeding edge, now got local early adopters
htfreak Posted April 7, 2007 Posted April 7, 2007 its still relatively early what with the first models of whatever officially available locally those who bought from US were the bleeding edge, now got local early adopters Let's hope I and a few others in XP don't bleed to death now... LOL!!!!
Audio Posted April 8, 2007 Posted April 8, 2007 Thanks to Jeffong, I got started off earlier than what I am used to..... I am buying less and less DVDs already ....the latest be "Man of the Year" which is a nice movie and knowing it would not be on HD anytime soon. Of late, I am buying more Blu-Rays also, not because it's better but the amount of new titles is really staggering. Casino Royale now set new Blu-Ray picture quality benchmark among my collection is for once, it give equally good satisfaction compared to HD-DVD previous releases. The new Destiny Child Concert "Live in Atlanta" Blu-Ray is really so exciting compared to the so-so quality on SDDVD. Oh, Alice Cooper on HD-DVD is great too. Don't think so much......if you are really serious into good picture quality, going to these 2 HD media formats is inevitable..... (Audio)
Norman_Chan Posted April 8, 2007 Posted April 8, 2007 So if you import in a HD DVD player from the US (Due to price cheaper ...) it will be region locked at code 1 and if you buy the PS3 local ...it will be region locked at code 3 ?
yellowhandman Posted April 8, 2007 Posted April 8, 2007 So if you import in a HD DVD player from the US (Due to price cheaper ...) it will be region locked at code 1 and if you buy the PS3 local ...it will be region locked at code 3 ? Dunno about HD-DVD, but PS3 local is region-locked to code 3 for DVDs. Blu-ray region coding is different. We are in the same region as US, so no problem with local PS3.
1AngMoh Posted April 8, 2007 Posted April 8, 2007 its still relatively early what with the first models of whatever officially available locally those who bought from US were the bleeding edge, now got local early adopters I would agree - its still early days for both BR and HD-DVD. How do we know this? Simple, much of BR's content is using old DD 5.1 for audio and HD-DVD is utilising DD+ which is a poor man's lossless TrueHD. The situation is improving but I remain on the sidelines until my ears will get the same treatment as my eyes.
Doggie Howser Posted April 8, 2007 Posted April 8, 2007 Considering most cinemas are still using DD or regular DTS, why is this a bad thing? In fact DD+ is actually BETTER than the low bitrate DD that is used in most cinemas.
tsammyc Posted April 8, 2007 Posted April 8, 2007 Simple, much of BR's content is using old DD 5.1 for audio and HD-DVD is utilising DD+ which is a poor man's lossless TrueHD. The situation is improving but I remain on the sidelines until my ears will get the same treatment as my eyes. Maybe its just me, but half of the Blu Rays' that I've been watching have uncompressed PCM 5.1 which sound great and is as lossless as they come. Me thinks by the time you get your perfect region free HD-DVD/Blu-ray combo player that plays bitstream SACD and DVD-A over HDMI 1.3 *and* all published discs have TrueHD and DTS MA, we will be well into 2008. By that time some of us early adopters will be looking out for 1440p displays ;D
1AngMoh Posted April 9, 2007 Posted April 9, 2007 By that time some of us early adopters will be looking out for 1440p displays ;D Ah yes displays.... I sure we all realise that our current displays are no good lah. They don't support HDMI 1.3 and True/deep colour. Neither for the matter does the current crop of sources. I Jest of course but early adoptors need not only to be brave, but financially fit - as the upgradis treadmill just keeps on speeding up. ;D Considering most cinemas are still using DD or regular DTS, why is this a bad thing? My definition of a rip off is a $70 BR disc with low rate DD encoding. Its all about the software.
tsammyc Posted April 9, 2007 Posted April 9, 2007 Well, the early adopters all look forward to the day when with shaking hands and nervous anticipation, you excitedly put your first Hi-Def movie into your system. My beer is still chilling in your fridge I hope.
Doggie Howser Posted April 9, 2007 Posted April 9, 2007 Low bitrate?? Most movies on BR come with a DD+ track even though it doesn't say so. Check out hidefdigest for more details. This is a HUGE jump from most cinema transfers. Heck, even regular DD is higher bitrate. Personally, I think virtually all my HD discs have given my speaker systems a thorough workout.
1AngMoh Posted April 9, 2007 Posted April 9, 2007 Low bitrate?? Sorry, should have defined Low bitrate as being 640Kb/s. Personally, I think virtually all my HD discs have given my speaker systems a thorough workout. Good to hear, imagine what Master Audio or TrueHD will do for those speakers - assuming of course the rest of the audio chain is up to the task. :)
Guest tonytakitani Posted April 9, 2007 Posted April 9, 2007 I would agree - its still early days for both BR and HD-DVD. How do we know this? Simple, much of BR's content is using old DD 5.1 for audio and HD-DVD is utilising DD+ which is a poor man's lossless TrueHD. The situation is improving but I remain on the sidelines until my ears will get the same treatment as my eyes. Check out this list : http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=3338 You'll be surprised at the number of blu-ray titles that have either multichannel PCM, lossless DTS HD-MA or DTS HD (lossy, but still up to 4 times the bitrate of "regular" DTS, almost 10 times that of plain old DD) I would argue that the content is more or less ready, it's the hardware that is lagging behind. We're all eagerly waiting for a player that can decode the high def DTS tracks.
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