I'm not sure who the intended audience was for the interview, but if they weren't a technical crowd then it was fairly pointless.
Joe said: 1. Many TV's that are labeled as HD Ready aren't really HDTV capable. That's absolutely true, but he didn't explain why. Just because a TV can except the input doesn't mean that it can display it in all it's glory. I'm sure many people came away confused by what he was trying to say.
2. He said that HD-DVD's can deliver much higher image quality than terrestrial or satellite broadcast. Once again that's absolutely true, but he didn't explain why. To the general public HDTV is HDTV. They don't realize that broadcasters need to compress the source material to conserve bandwidth.
3. He implied that Blu-ray is an MPEG-2 only format. He did qualify it slightly by saying that the initial Sony movies would be using MPEG-2, but he didn't explain that Blu-ray also supports H.264 and VC-1.
He's a very plugged in guy, but I don't think it was a very good interview.
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I'm not sure who the intended audience was for the interview, but if they weren't a technical crowd then it was fairly pointless.
Joe said:
1. Many TV's that are labeled as HD Ready aren't really HDTV capable. That's absolutely true, but he didn't explain why. Just because a TV can except the input doesn't mean that it can display it in all it's glory. I'm sure many people came away confused by what he was trying to say.
2. He said that HD-DVD's can deliver much higher image quality than terrestrial or satellite broadcast. Once again that's absolutely true, but he didn't explain why. To the general public HDTV is HDTV. They don't realize that broadcasters need to compress the source material to conserve bandwidth.
3. He implied that Blu-ray is an MPEG-2 only format. He did qualify it slightly by saying that the initial Sony movies would be using MPEG-2, but he didn't explain that Blu-ray also supports H.264 and VC-1.
He's a very plugged in guy, but I don't think it was a very good interview.