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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Pre-release Blu-ray impressions roundup]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/19/pre-release-blu-ray-impressions-roundup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/19/pre-release-blu-ray-impressions-roundup/</guid><description><![CDATA[HIDEFDIGEST has 3 reviews up already, and they echo the comments that Blu-Ray isn't up to the level of HD-DVD in terms of visual quality:<br><br><a href="http://www.highdefdigest.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.highdefdigest.com/</a><br><br>Even worse is the fact that they are having to partially or completely remove special features.  XXX has NO extras at all.  HD-DVD releases are loaded with features, porting even the loaded extras from 2-disc DVD Special Editions.<br><br>You can find a good summary of the situation by Cliff Stephenson (formerly of DVDFile) at this link to AVS:<br><br><a href="http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=7850079&&#post7850079" rel="nofollow">http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=7850079&&#post7850079</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[efralope]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 19th 2006 9:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Pre-release Blu-ray impressions roundup]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/19/pre-release-blu-ray-impressions-roundup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/19/pre-release-blu-ray-impressions-roundup/</guid><description><![CDATA[I'm waiting for the Sony player anyway.  Looks like a little better construction.<br><br>Little worried about what I hear about from the discs themselves.  Hopefully that's just a problem with the first round of discs (Like Warner's audio problems on the first three HD DVDs), and not the format as a whole.  I'm actually looking forward to getting one of the same Warner title on each format and comparing them myself.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TJ]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 19th 2006 10:13PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Pre-release Blu-ray impressions roundup]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/19/pre-release-blu-ray-impressions-roundup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/19/pre-release-blu-ray-impressions-roundup/</guid><description><![CDATA[Don't forget the lack of Dolby Digital + and Dolby True HD.<br><br>Though the Terminator would be nice in HD. As would House of Flying Daggers and/or Fifth Element.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 19th 2006 11:37PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Pre-release Blu-ray impressions roundup]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/19/pre-release-blu-ray-impressions-roundup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/19/pre-release-blu-ray-impressions-roundup/</guid><description><![CDATA[I just read the 3 reviews above.  I'm absolutely stunned.  How can Sony be so short-sighted as to release movies that are clearly inferior to HD-DVD?  Honestly I was expecting Blu-Ray to equal or surpass HD-DVD in PQ quality.  Some movies have no extras?  They only thing I can guess is that they are relying on mpeg2 and single layer media.  To get the movies to fit on a single disc, they have to compress them.  They don't have a second shot at this to get it right.  No one is going to spend a grand or more to watch cable-quality HD movies.  <br><br>With all the *superior* technology like native 1080p and greater disk space they were touting, to mess up like this is almost unforgivable.  I thought they were playing from behind a bit already, but with this they will have a much harder time.  Honestly it looks as if Blu-Ray has lost the war before it even started.  Now I see why they pulled titles and delayed their players again.  <br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jim]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 19th 2006 11:51PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Pre-release Blu-ray impressions roundup]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/19/pre-release-blu-ray-impressions-roundup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/19/pre-release-blu-ray-impressions-roundup/</guid><description><![CDATA[I cant wait to here this weeks Podcast :P]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[WiFiSpy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 20th 2006 12:39AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Pre-release Blu-ray impressions roundup]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/19/pre-release-blu-ray-impressions-roundup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/19/pre-release-blu-ray-impressions-roundup/</guid><description><![CDATA[Doesn't seem like the Blueray fans' arguement that bigger is better is working out so far.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[pete]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 20th 2006 5:53AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Pre-release Blu-ray impressions roundup]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/19/pre-release-blu-ray-impressions-roundup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/19/pre-release-blu-ray-impressions-roundup/</guid><description><![CDATA[$500 more for less quality?  Has Sony jumped the Shark?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike S]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 20th 2006 6:22AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Pre-release Blu-ray impressions roundup]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/19/pre-release-blu-ray-impressions-roundup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/19/pre-release-blu-ray-impressions-roundup/</guid><description><![CDATA[It would seem that with Sony they see a new technology and try to find a use for it... where as others see a need and use the proper technology to fill the need... ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 20th 2006 1:58PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Pre-release Blu-ray impressions roundup]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/19/pre-release-blu-ray-impressions-roundup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2006/06/19/pre-release-blu-ray-impressions-roundup/</guid><description><![CDATA[I'm going to give this stuff a year to work everything out.  By then we should have a good idea where it's all going and who's chasing who.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruzer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 20th 2006 7:32PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>