HD DVD flopped at CES

[mike909]

The analog outputs will be limited to 720x480 (standard DVD resolution) for encrypted discs*. An active HDCP connection is required to get any digital HD playback.

At the show they had 1080p over component video...that's what I thought was interesting.

[dvdguy4]

Heres some picks from the show. Check it out here.

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/ces2006/gallery01.html

[adam]

Ahh cool pics. Some of those players look freakin huge, particularly the HD-DVD ones. I'm not all that keen on the packing that they will use for these formats. That beveled top is going to make it look weird on the shelf I think. HD-DVD definitely has the edge on the logo design. The blu-ray logo looks silly.

[hudsonf]

The RCA model looks like my old BetaMax.

[pfh]

Those players look like a joke! What is this? 1970's? By the time large capacity optical playback becomes a reality of mass use, we'll most likely be using SFF computers for home entertainment anyways making these things obsolete dust collectors.

[ROF]

Those players are mostly just laboratory prototypes.

[Cornucopia]

i dont know if you guys actually mean the tv and movie industry is the same now or if you just mean technolloy or actors or something but i gurantee you the movie industry is way way different to the tv industry.
firstly it takes about 2 years from the pen touching the paper to the finished scrypt for a film and a popular tv show can start a season and not know what will happen 8 episodes ahead.

the bugget aswell. is totally different. a popular sci-fi show costs about 45,000 dollars aminute when a
sci-fi film of equal importance in movie terms at about 100 mins long can cost about 1,000,000 dollars a minute.

the story telling is diffrent, the marketing is different, the camers are different, the cinamatoraphy is different, not to mention a movie can have a tleast 10 times the staff working on it.
the whole industires are completely different. jsut because we see actors casually crossing the movie and tv line as never done about 20 years ago people seem to think the industry has merged. they have never been so different.

1. Budgets: They're bigger per "episode" but that's just scaling up because of the runtime & number of fx. Otherwise, they're very similar.
2. Storytelling: Very much the same scriptwriters, very much the same stories, just not told "as large" or told serially instead.
3. Camera/Cinematography. With Cameron, Lucas, Rodriguez, et al, THE CAMERAS ARE THE VERY SAME. The Cinematography might be stylistically different, but then it might not. They differ show-by-show anyway (in both camps).
4. Actors: Very much the same. There sometimes is a divide between Stage actors and screen actors, but not really cinema vs. TV. That's really a personal decision per actor.
5. Crew: Same guys, just more of 'em when the story gets "grander".

I speak from experience, having worked on some, and knowing many people in the industry.

They were at one time very different, but now the amount of overlap is 10 times greater than the amount of differences. And most importantly, the EXECUTIVES running both the TV and Cinema wings of these corporations are pretty much the same bunch of guys (sorry gals, they still don't let you in much).

Scott