Recent content by KnightBreed

1) Finally a way of disabling images embedded within threads. Thank you. 2) It doesn't seem to work perfectly, as there are a number of emoticons that are coming up as links.

This thread got very large, very quickly. I read/skimmed through most of it, but I just wanted to add my two cents. And I say all of this with the assumption that Revolution will not support HD, which may or may not happen. HD might not be important now. We are also talking about a console...

No mention of costs or a potential release date? Anybody actually expecting recordable media (RW or R) to be available with the first wave of HD DVD players?

As does bonding three layers to each other.

DemoCoder pretty much hit the nail on the head. Everybody slugged off the 4 layer Blu-ray discs as vapourware. Until we get confirmation that (A) every player requires 3 layer read-only support and (B) every recorder supports writing to 3 layers, I'm treating the HD DVD press releases as...

OK, so basically this announcement means nothing and the format war will continue as planned. 1) The press release makes no mention of manufacturing costs. Telling me that Universal accepted the new format really doesn't say dick about increased costs and how they compare to Blu-ray discs...

There were reports saying that Toshiba was looking to incorporate Blu-ray's multilayer technology into HD DVD. The "merger" might have been the capability to have more than 2 layer HD DVD discs. Seems ironic that HD DVD has been toting manufacturing as the reason to adobt HD DVD, then they push...

Easily. I'd be opposed to a single format that doesn't support greater than 30 GB ROMs.

I'm not opposed to seeing the two formats merge. There was a recent announcement of a variable wavelength optical pickup that is compatible with both Blu-ray and HD DVD. Combine them into a single format that supports 15, 25, 30, and 50 GB ROMS and let the studios decide which disc they want to...

Oh 15GB will certainly fit a HD presentation on a single disc. I never doubted that. It's a simple matter of reducing the bitrate or audio quality or video extras until you've made everything fit onto a single disc. Of course, reduce the bitrate too much and you introduce macroblock errors due...

1) What movie? 2) How long was the movie? 3) Were any extras included on the disc? 4) How about audio quality? Was anything high quality included like LPCM or just lossy Dolby in 5.1? 5) How large was your screen for reference? Were you watching it on a smaller HDTV (less than 65") or...

It is a mediocre solution for anything other than standard definition movies. 15GB isn't enough for a quality HD presentation. This just underscores the battle call for every HD DVD trumpeteer I've seen. "It's good enough for now." 15GB isn't even close, unless you enjoy watching undersampled...

Telling somebody that a display is capable of 40,000 different brightness levels just because of it's dynamic range is very wrong and highly misleading. The "dynamic range" is also known as on/off constrast ratio. I described the process to measure it some posts before. The definition to...

I don't know what randycat is ranting and raving about, but the contrast ratio of a display is extremely important in reproducing a lifelike image. That comment about 40,000:1 contrast ratio requiring 75-bit color rendition is complete bologne. A CR of 40,000 only means that the brightest white...

Where did this information come from, that a contrast ratio of 10,000:1 has 10,000 brightness gradients to "choose from"? The constrast ratio is a measured valued that is determined by one of two ways: 1) A ratio of the brightness (in lumens, nits, whatever) of a fully white screen to a fully...