When I see an insult, intentional or otherwise in the opening sentence of a post, my eyes automatically glaze over, and I discard anything from that point onward, so you're wasting keystrokes - I didn't and won't even bother reading your posts. Fix your attitude.
Obviously, since you didn't bring a single fact to the table but smeared the thread in more misinformative nonsense. It doesn't matter how cordial or non I am, you got called out on several points and it bruised your ego.
Every assertion you made has been proven incorrect (do I need to list them in a bullet list?) and you haven't even bothered to try to dig your way out of the hole you made. Drive-by, hit and run, spray a hail of misinformation and don't look back.
And FWIW my opening line was "more tripe".
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That's not a
personal insult. You seem to be confused on this point. Things along the line of "your momma" are personal insults.
FYI, those are bandwidth comparisons.
To compare 'resolution' is slightly different, since to "double" resolution classically requires making the pixel half as small in both dimensions...which means that achieving 2x the resolution invariably requires 4x the bandwidth.
Regardless, the point is quantifiable, the magnitude of the increase in pixels on screen -- 2X to 6X. Whether you want to measure it in pixel density as I have, etc. The old way was to measure horizontal pixel resolution because frankly NTSC scan lines are constant at 480 and no device could exceed that.
On that level, it isn't bad. However, there's also a big bag of DRM which is still changing, which makes supportability a PITA.
I've have a really old player in my living room (a Samsung HD-DVD/Blu-Ray combo player), a cheap player that's a couple years old in my bedroom, and a brand new 3D player in my home theater. Oh and a PS3. None of them has ever refused to play a disc. Aside from popup messages from AnyDVDHD on my HTPC, I wouldn't even know about DRM being there. Has a legitimate/legal consumer ever really been effected by it?
Oh, goodie: now I only need 4 BD disks to store a single backup of my personal photos ... instead of one single Hard Drive...oh, and the HDD is still cheaper, too.
I agree optical media isn't that great for backup/archive and if it is you usually have something small enough to fit on a CD or DVD. I use hard drives myself -- but beware, that means multiple copies and lots and lots of hard disks, usually at least a RAID array if not a NAS. Between a master archive and the working copy on a NAS, I have about 40TB of hard disks at work (and that's without a complete offsite backup 3rd copy, for that I only have 4TB for really important stuff).
Now the other problem is sharing HD home video with family and friends. Thumb drive? Youtube? Give everybody hard drives? No good solution without BD short of making a DVD, which defeats the purpose of having an HD camera.
Frankly, too few people care about such geek minutia. They simply want to push a button and have it work.
And they can. They never have to know about the codecs. But it's one of the reasons Blu-Ray is better (which was sort of the idea of convincing someone who doesn't understand it that it's better) than even broadcast HDTV because frankly MPEG-2 isn't that good anymore and you can easily pick out artifacts on HDTV broadcasts.
Spoken like someone who hasn't pulled the cotton out of his ears to hear what the "Average Consumer" is literally saying today..?
What "average consumer" is bemoaning that they have to buy an HDTV in 2011? Grandmothers?
HDTV household penetration is 60% (meaning 60% of homes have at least one HDTV) so now we're on the tail end of Rogers' bell curve and into the late adopters and laggards, the people who listen to AM radio and watch Matlock.
Now, all those people who have HDTVs are looking for something that can do their new TV justice and Blu-Ray just happens to be the best picture quality you can get.
This approach works fine, for as long as there's "combo" BR-DVD players.
Every Blu-Ray player plays DVDs. And CDs. Probably VCDs too but I haven't checked.
Just a random thought. If Apple doesn't want to support Blu-ray then what are they going to do when Ultra High Definition stuff comes out or 4K cinema stuff?
Still going to be stuck with their 720p Apple TV "HD"?
Good point. Ironically Apple pioneered the "higher than HD" consumer product with the 30" cinema display at 2560x1600. And they do offer QT movie trailers in 1080p. Just not anything on iTunes.
This is the new Apple here, I would bet we're going to see 720p stay entrenched because it's the iDevices that matter. If they won't even support Blu-Ray since it went mainstream in 2007, does anybody think they're going to support the next thing? And even if they did, does anybody think that there will be acceptable 4k/red media via streaming? Probably not, so we're back to physical media, on disc or memory card and unless the economies of scale change by then, it will be disc. We've already discussed discs are cheap and memory cards are not.
