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With their latest firmware, you can also stream files from your computer, I have not try it yet. |
Does anyone have a clue why no HD DVD burners are out yet, while more and more blu ray burners around?
I guess its to avoid piracy...:P It also means blu ray is better protected. If this is true, it may mean blu ray will win, the HD DVD makers will lose sales once burners come out. Its code is cracked anyway. Btw. blu ray shall win - it has the potential for larger file sizes. Think about 2k and 4k and stuff like that coming to homes in a few years. TV screen diameters and resolution increasing all the time. 1920x1080 is not the end. The disks coming from a face lifted DVD production facility cannot be the future. Even if B. Gates himself supports it. |
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As far as I know HD-DVD is still being targeted mainly as a movie format (only). |
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I'm sure there is. But I wonder if the DVD SP 4 version is good for both Blu-Ray and HD DVD, since Apple support Blu-Ray.
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I have FCS2 with DVD SP 4, there is no blu ray support, only HD DVD. Weird... Until Adobe Encore for Mac comes out, there is no blu ray authoring software available for the Mac. Compressor can make .m2t file from the HD source you output from FCP and blu ray players can play that without menu. I can confirm, at least PS3 can play it. |
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Yeah, try this site. http://www.hdtvtotal.com/module-page...reating_hddvds |
My First Mini HD DVD
Terrific link! Thanks. He wrote it up using VideoRedo, Ulead DVD Movie Factory 5 and Nero.
I found out that Liquid 7.2 can make the MPEG2 file and DVDMF 6 Plus is happy to burn the HD DVD structure onto a DVD-R. Viola! A Mini HD DVD! It looks great! |
I'm going to finally burn one and try it out on my friend's PS3, for the heck of it, and find an HD DVD player and do the same thing. Someone once mentioned to make it withOUT a menu.
Customflix offers Blu-Ray (720p, natch) DVDs (WMV HD now, too, HD DVD coming soon): http://www.customflix.com/Products/HighDefinition.jsp heath |
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Samsung ships HD DVD enabled laptops and will come out with the BDP-UP5000 dual format player this year so they certainly aren't exclusive. http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/12/s...player-on-the/ Dell is the only exclusive PC manufactuer that I know and they're fading fast. HP sells both platforms. You can buy Media Centre PC with HD DVD drives or their HD100 USB HD DVD player http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product...lang=en-US&s=1 Apple will be adding Blu-ray authoring in the future is my guess but to date they are only supporting HD DVD in DVD Studio Pro 4 The war is not winnable by either company. Blu-ray has required a cartel like hold on studios to survive. HD DVD has required charing less than competition in price to survive. If anyone see an "awesome" movie on Blu-ray you can rest assured that the same movie would look "awesome" on HD DVD. In fact many dual format owners claim that their HD DVD discs still look superior overall. Quote:
Both formats are limited by a maximum of 1080p resolution so regardless of filesize you'll never go above 1080p with the current specification. Here's an interesting post that was closed down on AVS regarding a simultaneous release of Flags of our Fathers on Blu-ray and HD DVD. That Blu-ray disc was encoded at a higher rate in AVC which meant it was 13GB larger in size over the VC-1 HD DVD version http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=855599 As you can see the extra space is superfluous. The picture may even be softer than the VC1 version which sames 13GB. Those who use Cineform and Red codec and now Apple's ProRes 422 should know that size doesn't equate to a better picture. It's about what you do with the encoding that makes or breaks the picture. |
Can anyone confirm that all Blu-Ray players (not just the PS3) will play M2t burned tot a DVD-R/+R disk?
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to answer to the question :Can we safely say the HD war is a draw ?
we can say yes, there is no war and no winner. The industry has proven that nobody needs HD, at least not in the proposed conditions. DVD is still there and rock solid. If you really need HD, there are solutions (mainly related to computer equipment) that perfectly fit the HD editing workflow. |
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