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When is Super DVD coming out?

watdahel

watdahel

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Now that HDTV is becoming the norm, my highly-prized DVD collection are starting to look like highly glamorized coasters. Now, TV signals have resolutions far in excess that of DVDs. The incentive of owning a DVD for its once higher resolution is now a joke. It's inevitable that a new DVD standard come to light. When that time comes it will be a somber day for DVD collectors throughout the shire.
 
I think once they can come to agree to a standard.

Sony wants to use Blue-Ray while Toshiba want HD-DVD.

Once this battle is won we can move on I guess.
 
its here already but indirectly.

HD-DVD possibly when X-box 360 comes out.
Blue Ray possibly when PS3 comes out.

But if you own an Avel Linkplayer 2 or Buffalo Technology HD player you can play or stream HD content to your HDTV or play them in the DVD player. The Downside is the files are big. Typical movies are 12-20gigs in HD. So on standard 4.3gig disks your talking 3-6 DVD's. 8.5 helps. Best to leave the 12-20 gig files on a PC and stream them to the HD-DVD players.

One can dream that the high capacity HD-DVD's will be here when the Xbox 360 ships.
 
Originally posted by: HDTVMan
its here already but indirectly.

HD-DVD possibly when X-box 360 comes out.
Blue Ray possibly when PS3 comes out.

But if you own an Avel Linkplayer 2 or Buffalo Technology HD player you can play or stream HD content to your HDTV or play them in the DVD player. The Downside is the files are big. Typical movies are 12-20gigs in HD. So on standard 4.3gig disks your talking 3-6 DVD's. 8.5 helps. Best to leave the 12-20 gig files on a PC and stream them to the HD-DVD players.

One can dream that the high capacity HD-DVD's will be here when the Xbox 360 ships.
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HD-DVD will not be shipping with XBOX 360, it will ship with normal DVD players for quite a while. Only far i nthe future will they possibly come with HD-DVD players.

Blu-Ray is minimum 23.x GB, maximum in development so far is 200GB.
 
Originally posted by: Continuity28
Originally posted by: HDTVMan
its here already but indirectly.

HD-DVD possibly when X-box 360 comes out.
Blue Ray possibly when PS3 comes out.

But if you own an Avel Linkplayer 2 or Buffalo Technology HD player you can play or stream HD content to your HDTV or play them in the DVD player. The Downside is the files are big. Typical movies are 12-20gigs in HD. So on standard 4.3gig disks your talking 3-6 DVD's. 8.5 helps. Best to leave the 12-20 gig files on a PC and stream them to the HD-DVD players.

One can dream that the high capacity HD-DVD's will be here when the Xbox 360 ships.
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HD-DVD will not be shipping with XBOX 360, it will ship with normal DVD players for quite a while. Only far i nthe future will they possibly come with HD-DVD players.

Blu-Ray is minimum 23.x GB, maximum in development so far is 200GB.
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I know thats why I put possibly.
 
I don't know. DVDs still look pretty good to me on a 100" screen and a projector. Not fantastically sharp, but good enough so I'm not that bothered about the newer HD formats. Of course they look a lot better, but DVDs aren't too bad for now.
 
Originally posted by: Goi
I don't know. DVDs still look pretty good to me on a 100" screen and a projector. Not fantastically sharp, but good enough so I'm not that bothered about the newer HD formats. Of course they look a lot better, but DVDs aren't too bad for now.
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I guess I'm the opposite. I can't wait for HD DVD's to come out. 🙂

I think the OP had it exactly right:

Now, TV signals have resolutions far in excess that of DVDs. The incentive of owning a DVD for its once higher resolution is now a joke.
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Just my opinion, of course. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
Originally posted by: Cheesetogo
What resoulution are DVD's now?
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720x480 or so.
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720x480 for widescreen content and 640x480 for "standard" 4:3 aspect.

1080i/p is 1920x1080 widescreen or 1440x1080 "standard".

720i/p is 1280x720 widescreen or 960x720 "standard".

I'm putting "standard" in quotations because widescreen will be the standard in the future.
 
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