http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Fri, 23 Apr 2004 23:19:34 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/04/20/103035.php#comment-60059 As long as the new DVD players play the old DVDs, I don't really care what they do. I've seen HDTV, and looks very pretty, but I'm not going to re-buy DVDs just so they can be "optimized" for HDTV. I'm perfectly happy with the picture quality of DVDs now. 60059@blogcritics.org Fri, 23 Apr 2004 23:19:34 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/04/20/103035.php#comment-60018 I am still mad they stopped making Divx disks. ;) 60018@blogcritics.org Fri, 23 Apr 2004 18:54:07 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/04/20/103035.php#comment-59229 <blockquote>The music industry tried it with DVD-Audio, and has yet to take off.</blockquote> The music industry has a tough battle convincing consumers that DVD-Audio is substantially better <i>sounding</i> than what they already listen to. The same couldn't be said for the introduction of CDs... it was blatantly obvious the audible difference between CDs and tapes, for instance. So, the difference between a 480p-displayed anamorphic DVD and either 720p or 1080i display is more comparable with CD versus tape argument rather than the CD versus DVD-Audio. 59229@blogcritics.org Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:33:18 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/04/20/103035.php#comment-59209 High definition DVD will be for (wealthy) videophiles only. Current generation DVD is in no immediate danger. As for Blu-Ray, it's the better technology of the two. Sony hung on to Beta for damn near forever. They'll do the same with Blu-Ray. 59209@blogcritics.org Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:33:02 EDT