Evening Reading: Buzz Words in Game Titles

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• I found the sound to be a bigger difference than video quality (from afar). It's nice to be able to watch... : intothefray
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  How do you think the wrong format won? HD DVD supported the same video and audio codecs. If you really want to get picky the higher blu-ray bitrate and larger capacity discs actually provide more room for better encodes.
  
  Also, how do you have it hooked up to your HDTV?

  Mar 30, 2010 11:13pm PDT
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  How do you think the wrong format won? HD DVD supported the same video and audio codecs. If you really wa... : Prozium
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    Higher bit rate? : Fred Garvin
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      By virtue of more storage on the discs. Though in practice I don't think any hddvds ran into a limit befo... : boarder2
      • Yeah, he was making a false assumption there. : Fred Garvin
    • yeah, the data off a blu-ray disc can be read at upwards of 40-50 mbps while HD DVD topped out around 30-... : Prozium
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    HD DVD had hybrid discs and skippable previews. And now BluRay has previews downloaded from the internet... : cltcprd
    • I also agree that it was the better overall format. The format was final and standardized the moment the ... : Prozium
    • A lot of blu-rays come with the DVD version, and a copy for PC/iPod/etc. And as for previews downloade... : Vincent Grayson
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  I've gone from every high end video format from Laserdisc to HD-DVD to HD downloads, and Blu Ray is the H... : Serpico74
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    Did you ever own a betamax player? : Prozium
    • Dead before I bought my own players. I'm old but I'm not that old. :) : Serpico74
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    I still would have prefered HD-DVD :[ : Fred Garvin
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      Why? Same codecs, same capabilities, but with about half the storage and physically more delicate media. ... : Serpico74
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        There was a larger compatible spec coming, it had a better feature set from day one so more movies used t... : Fred Garvin
        • Really? Tons of BR movies use those features, and I expect that uber box sets like the upcoming Alien BR ... : Serpico74
        • the big thing was NO REGION CODING. : CoRDS
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        menus were a lot better in hd dvd, it also supported a few things that blurray didnt at the time. in ... : CoRDS
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          At the time. In the big picture it is irrelevent as BR can do all of those things now. Throw in double th... : Serpico74
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            discs would most probably be cheaper without everyone paying sony moneys. : CoRDS
            • Sony only own about 25% of BR, I believe. : jcupitt
            • I think Panasonic had a large part in Blu. : sheepraper
  • You're only cool if you owned a D-VHS player. I'm not cool :( : DarkWolf5
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    I wouldn't go as far as Holy Grail; but I'm not going to look back. I think it's very inconsistant though... : intothefray
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      I thought all BDs required the scratch resistant coating because a single scratch can be so devastating? ... : aggressor
      • They may all be scratch resistant. Some are just lower quality by far. I'm not at home so I cannot check. : intothefray
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      3) There should only really be two video codecs being used at any one time. VC-1 which is kind of the M... : spazzium
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        I think MPEG-2 (DVD) is the only other one. : intothefray
        • Oh right. Forgot about program stream. Definitely high quality, just needs a shit ton of bandwidth behi... : spazzium
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      What discs have these unskippable previews? I really want to try one out. I've come across discs where me... : Prozium
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        I dunno but that little ghostbuster logo I get when I try can suck it. Fast forward usually still works b... : intothefray
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          I don't have to fast forward through them, I just chapter skip directly to the next preview. : Prozium
          • I'll try the next one I have an issue with in another player. I may just be retarded. : intothefray
    • How is 5 a negative against the format? It isn't the fault of the format, it is the fault of the people d... : Serpico74
    • I hope you aren't complaining about film grain in point number 5, because that's supposed to be there : OrkO
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  Insignia is shit. I had 3 TVs in a row that had problems and they were all Insignia. I made the store giv... : Fred Garvin
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    took you 3 tv's to learn? : Iwannaacura
    • Waranty, I had no choice until the lemon clause kicked in. : Fred Garvin
  • Most (maybe all?) of the insignia BR players are rebadged samsung players. A couple of them even have ide... : Prozium
• What'd you watch? Ahh the format war. I was rooting for HD-DVD too. : Nixx2004
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  What tv are you hooking it to? Hdmi or component? Bluray really requires 1080p via hdmi to truely shine. ... : boarder2
  • Same applies to No Country For Old Men, any Pixar film, bunch of others. Bad transfers are bad transfers ... : Serpico74
• the wrong format won? you think HD DVD looks any different at all? : moshman
• No, they all load slow as fucking shit, except the PS3 cause it has a hard drive to store a few things on... : MeestaNob
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  they wonder why people pirate movies but look at this shit paying customers have to put up with: http://w... : gyokuro
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    Yeah you paid for the fucking thing already so why force people to watch your bullshit trailers? Because ... : Godhatesfatpeople
    • seriously. : AMikaboshi
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  Only problem I have with Blu-Ray that never seemed to pop up with HD-DVD is the random slowdowns. I get n... : Pettytheft
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    What player/discs? That doesn't sound right. : MeestaNob
    • PS3 and I was going through the menu with The Vampires Assistant and it just paused. I know some of the t... : Pettytheft
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  I was not in any way saying that audio/video quality was sub-optimal, I was talking more about the fact t : mafu5150
  • I guess that I should have pointed out that I've had the HDDVD 360 drive for some time, too. : mafu5150
  • this is why i rip my blurays to mkv. : CoRDS