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shorty_37 said:
The whole thing confuses me, all these specs and #s mean nothing to me. That is why I leave all this tech stuff up to the man lol :D
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I try to keep up with new tech and this confuses me too. :shrug:

But if you want to impress the man next time around this 720p 1080p junk is explained nicely Here :D
 
Xelios said:
I try to keep up with new tech and this confuses me too. :shrug:

But if you want to impress the man next time around this 720p 1080p junk is explained nicely Here :D
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ahhhh it makes sense, you are Canadian too lol :D

Thanks.

If I can't find a Wii, it will be on to PS3 they seem to be everywhere.
I will not sit outside a store before it opens like some morons hoping to score one.
 
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ahhhh it makes sense, you are Canadian too lol
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Yup :D But I'm in Germany for university, been here 3 months and I'd rather go back, I miss my Rocky Mountains and Tim Hortons coffee :(
 
Wow!! all the way out there to go to school???
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500 EUR/semester vs $3000+/semester back in Canada, and rent free thanks to my relatives here. Couldn't argue with that. Still, Canada is much nicer :)
Alberta or BC?
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Calgary, AB. 45 minutes away from Banff National Park :)
 
Dr Mabuse said:
yeah the war is over...

on the DVD and home theatre forums i'm on this thing has been raging for over two years...

the better technology won this time...

Watch this...

beta was and is the superior technology compared to VHS, and is the format used by TV stations to this day...
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did any of you watch that video?...

that's the freaking bomb...
 
orcot said:
I've always believed they should revert to the old disquitte system where the little disk is safly in a plastic shell, they would last way longer
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I have a few DVD-ROM holders for the same purpose. Remember when NEC had those covers to keep CDs scratchless.

Sony's minidisc always stays inside a caddy. After 6 months, I will be surprised if they do not start selling caddy based systems.....
 
Dr Mabuse said:
beta was and is the superior technology compared to VHS, and is the format used by TV stations to this day...
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Not exactly. I have two JVC VCRs that have extended definition and high definition setting to increase the video bandwidth on standard and metal VHS tapes.....
 
cosmictraveler said:
Not really because they still can be played on a cddvd type of playback machine and there are thousands of titles available. Just have to buy a blu ray machine now if you want more titles for your collection.
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That's exactly my point. The discs and players are not immediately useless, because HD DVDs look just as good as blu-ray does. They will not be picking up any new titles, so if I want to continue to grow my HD movie collection it will be blu-ray exclusive, but I am not immediately going to throw away all my current discs just because blu-ray won.

Shorty:

720 and 1080 refer to the number of "lines" the screen is divided into vertically. So, there are 720 horizontal lines and 1080 horizontal lines. Think of it in terms of computer monitor resolution -- most TVs are the equivalent of a monitor having 1368 x 768 resolution while others have 1920 x 1080. Obviously, the more you divide the screen, the better detail you can achieve which is why they are pushing 1080 as the standard.

Next we come to the letter designation. There are two you will commonly see, interlace (i) and progressive scan (p). Most TVs now will advertise 720p or 1080p, which means that each horizontal line is refreshed in one sweep. The screen all refreshes at once. Interlace TVs (CRT TVs and some rear projections) will actually refresh all the odd numbered lines in one go, and then refresh all the even numbered lines to fill out the picture (this is happening very fast, mind you -- 60 - 85 times per second so you don't really notice). Progressive scan TVs tend to look clearer, but don't handle fast moving camera pans or fast action sequences quite as well (depending on how they're shot -- sports programming comes to mind).
 
Dr Mabuse said:
yeah the war is over...

on the DVD and home theatre forums i'm on this thing has been raging for over two years...

the better technology won this time...

Watch this...

beta was and is the superior technology compared to VHS, and is the format used by TV stations to this day...
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that movie was great i have seen another one like it where it is bitching about x-box live
 
I didn't realize that HD DVD players weren't that expensive. They cost $150-300 and they still can play probably in better quality the normal DVDs. So there isn't much loss in having them, maybe a hundred bucks...
 
HD DVD = Blu Ray in quality. They are true HD. I have both, and can't tell a significant difference.
 
DVD's, HD-DVD and Blu-ray are actually a waste of resources, all require petroleum based products and are therefore fossil fuel related. All disc's just end up on shelves taking up storage space, collecting dust and ultimately becoming obsolete and no longer worth having.

The future was/is and has always been Hard-drive storage because it can be reformatted over and over again, It's storage space is cheaper by the Gb, admittedly it does entail the use of power and moving parts but it's less likely to suffer severe faults as with scratches on discs. What starts the Angst camp however is DRM - Digital Rights Management and how a person hires a self destructible copy downloaded from the net for a set duration of time.
 
The only problem with Hard drive is that after 10 to 14 years, they usually die. We need a permanent storage medium that could be eco-friendly. Like storing in crystals or other not yet invented gadget....until then....
 
kmguru said:
Significant? There should be NO difference. It is a digital file unlike the past analog tapes....:confused:
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Yes, should be. But they use different tech to both carry and read the file that's on the disc, so there are some differences.
 
Waste of resources? That is one silly argument. We could say that books are waste of resources, because they will rot away... And reformatting? What if you want to keep a ovie for 20 years?
5-10 years from now there willbe no harddrives anyway. Moving datastorages are obsolate...
 
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