DVD in the Near Future - HD DVD or Blue-Ray

[Cunhambebe]

First I'd like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Now, let's get to the point. I was reading an article around here, the place I live, on the competition between the Blue-Ray DVD and the HD- DVD. It seems some Hollywood studios prefer the first one (Columbia - of course, it was created by Sony), Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Disney) and probably MGM. Some others prefer the second one (Warner, Paramount, New Line Cinema and Universal). Some say HD-DVD cannot be copied at all. Major studios support is highly considered to make one of those formats "the future DVD". The article states that for those who seek some more info, should go to: www.blu-ray.com or www.dvdforum.org. Now I'd like to leave you with a few thoughts....
1. What kind of file type they are going to use (I hope that's not our friend MPEG-2; we've already discussed here this kind of file causes some banding on video and wouldn't be the right choice to store your precious files for the future since it's a file designed for distribution and not storage; unless it may be an MPEG-2 HD...);
2. If we'll be able to play our standard DVDs with both HD or Blue-Ray....
Thanks to all who helped me during this year....Congrats to all Administrators

[Cunhambebe]

This is what I've already found....answering my own question...
Blu Ray uses MPEG-2 TS (Transport Stream) used by digital broadcasts, which makes it highly compatible with global standards for digital TV. This means that HDTV broadcasts can be recorded directly to the disc without any quality loss or extra processing. To handle the increased amount of data required for HD, Blu-ray employs a 36Mbps data transfer rate, which is more than enough to record and playback HDTV while maintaining the original picture quality. In addition, by fully utilizing an optical disc's random accessing features, it's possible to playback video on a disc while simultaneously recording HD video.

[monzie]

OK,

First we had 78's to 45's, then 33 1/3 onto CD (plus CD singles)..meanwhile VHS and Betamax AND Laserdisk (not exactly the PEOPLES CHOICE... ever) fought it out for video.

Now lets go to today, most of the (western) world have either bought new equipment (DVD players, widescreen TV's, LCD/PLASMA/Projector/HDTV TV's) and we are expected to change again......well, it will NOT happen (at least overnight). Household budgets when taken on a (western) world budget WILL NOT ACCEPT any new standard within at least the next 5-10 years..by which time YET another NEW standard will have arisen...dont even THINK to consider this technology UNTIL at least 5 years down the line (for the mass market that is).

Yes the manufacturers WANT the world to go with the new technology but but have you tried explaining to your mother/grandma the differnce between (on a new DVd player)...DVD, VCD, SVCD, MP3, DIVX, XVID, AVI, WMA, WMV, DD, DTS, DPL, DPLII....and if so does she CARE?

[Cunhambebe]

lolllll, oh boy, you make me laugh....I do agree with you but...5 years...means nothing, don't you think so?
Thanks for taking time to respond.
PS: My neighbor, Mr. Junior (dah...lollll) is thinking about buying a new tv set which is an LG 4:3 already prepared for HD TV...4:3, do you believe that? lolllll Another day, a salesman told me he had a new DVD model that converted regular NTSC DVDs into HDTV.....Now NTSC is becoming HDTV too...lolllllllllllllllllll

[edDV]

Blu-Ray will handle ATSC Mpeg2 based 19.39 Mb/s streams in realtime with ease with datarate windows to disc of 23Mbps and 25Mbps.

New higher compressed SDTV/HDTV formats will be supported including MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) and Microsoft VC-1 (based on wmv9). Microsoft VC-1 is gaining momentum in both the TV broadcast and consumer equipment markets and is also part of the HD-DVD standard set. VC-1 is in the process of becoming a SMPTE standard. SMPTE is the main standards setting body for the broadcast and entertainment media industry.

The technical and political wars between H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and VC-1 are just beginning.

[Cunhambebe]

Do you think there's gonna be a war? Nah....
Hey edDV, I see it you're form northen California. Let's go to baja to surf....That'd be much better, isn't it?

[edDV]

Sounds good to me