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Not really, no. The bigger HDs are only for people who download a lot of content - demos, arcade games, expansion packs, movies, etc.

HD DVD's second BOGO on AMAZON ever, now in effect. First 4 Potters are in the BOGO...

Updated original post with STANDARD DVD deinterlacing results :)

Was hoping to avoid this but... From the link: http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_7_4/dvd-benchmark-part-5-progressive-10-2000.html From this informative article, we can see that the best "progressive" DVD players decode a 480i60 signal from the data stored on disc which can be a...

Standard DVD is not stored natively 24p and hence can't be output so like HD DVD/BD. Rather than go into detail, this link does a good job: (See How Progressive Players Work section) http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_7_4/dvd-benchmark-part-5-progressive-10-2000.html They are a good...

http://www.hdtvmagazine.com/articles/2007/11/which_is_more_consumer_friendly_hd_dvd_or_blu-ray.php Awesome read.

BDA is actively skewing the Nielsen numbers by placing BD buy-one-get-one-free sales at retail outlets during weeks they don't have a blockbuster release. Even the free titles count as a "sale" during these BOGO events. I counted up the weeks and the BDA has had over 3 months worth of...

Versatility to be moved between an XBOX 360 and PC. But the HD-A3 is a much better player IMO if you are simply comparing player quality.

True I forgot to mention that. Although one problem with Analog 5.1 is that many preamps/receivers with analog 5.1 input fail to properly amplify the LFE channel by 10db as is the case with digital inputs, so you often need to compensate at the player side for this lack of consistency between...

Ok, so this review focuses on two important features which came to fruition around the time of HDMI 1.3 - 1080p24 (which does not need HDMI 1.3) and bitstreamed nextgen audio codecs (which does need HDMI 1.3). Therefore this review of these two techs will be split in two seperate sections...

Any video artist could easily add a Blu-Ray logo to the end of a video they made. But now its been confirmed by Home Media Magazine that these are bought and paid for advertisements created by Sony & Co. Also, the word "viral" was not just used by me but also in the Home Media Magazine article...

Just when you though you've seen it all, it has been confirmed that the Blu-Ray Disc Association has launched (un)professional viral attack ads against HD DVD on YouTube: http://www.homemediamagazine.com/news/html/breaking_article.cfm?article_id=11591 Desperation has set in, perhaps, with no...

If the war is a stalemate, that means all studios will eventually go neutral. No studio will shut out 50% of the profit longterm. So now whether or not you want to spend $300-$400 more for a BD player over a HD DVD player hinges upon your patience for the dominos to inevitably fall over the...

The key is that when you say 1080i60 that is referring to 60 fields/second, not 60 frames/second. 1080p60 is 60 frames/second. 1080p has the unnatural "judder" because film is 24fps. And, 1080i60 can be deinterlaced to 1080p60 through a TVs inverse telecine circuit; all the data of a 1080p...

Re: 1080p vs. 1080i in terms of signal transmission, on most 1080p sets you will see zero difference between a 1080i signal and 1080p signal. This is because decent 1080p TVs perform a process called inverse telecine on the 1080i signal which reorders the data to make a 1080p signal; a 1080i...