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Frezik
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Posted - 2008.01.07 01:17:00 -
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Watching the Times Square party on New Years Eve on a 1080p setup. Got a good look at Fergie's underarm stubble hair. That's the magic of HD.
I have a PS3, so I'm somewhat partial to Blu-ray just so I don't have to buy another piece of equipment, but otherwise I don't care. I don't see a significant technological difference to get behind either one.
For action movies, HD seems great if you set it up right (and setting it up right is more complicated than most people are willing to do). But for more "talky" movies (dramas, chick flicks, and the like), what's the point? They could be in black-and-white analog and I wouldn't care. At least than I don't have to see their skin pores.
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Frezik
Basically Outdated Stereo Equiptment
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Posted - 2008.01.07 15:21:00 -
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 Originally by: Miss Anthropy
It'll be interesting to see though which new DVD standard the gaming industry decides to support. It won't matter too much on Consoles because you can't play a PS3 game on an XBox; but for the PC industry the choice will most likely kill off either Blu-Ray or HD-DVD depending on which is chosen.
Since the industry has barely started churning out regular DVD games for PC, it'll be a long while before we see next-gen DVDs
Originally by: Kirjava
Supreme Commander I got via download - 5.5Gigs, is that the norm or exception?
That's about the right size for a DVD game, but remember that the biggest part of games isn't the code, but the textures. As texture resolution goes up, so does their size. Just having more space for textures is half the reason why PS3 screenshots look so good.
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Frezik
Basically Outdated Stereo Equiptment
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Posted - 2008.01.08 14:40:00 -
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Originally by: Reiisha
According to a friend of mine who does some ICT work in that area, the DRM is quite easy to bypass and might even be abolished at some point (if i understood that right - i don't know if i'm mixing up 2 of his presentations now)
I can't see Bluray+ being easy to figure out how to bypass. It involves running code inside a protected environment on the disc player. Eventually, I expect to see an emulator that fools the code into thinking it's in that protected environment, but it won't be easy.
AACS (copy protection shared by both formats) may never get the sort of fundamental vulnerability that DVDs had with DeCSS. Rather, we'll probably see a continuous action-reaction, where a new set of title keys are distributed and the industry revokes the player keys that allowed the break.
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