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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fox confirms more 50GB, BD-J and MPEG-4 movie releases for December]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/25/fox-confirms-more-50gb-bd-j-and-mpeg-4-movie-releases-for-decem/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/25/fox-confirms-more-50gb-bd-j-and-mpeg-4-movie-releases-for-decem/</guid><description><![CDATA[Why is it that Richard along with so many others think that MPEG 2 means bad video quality? Do any of you guys own a Blu-Ray discs player? Momento, Training Day, Stealth, Haunted Mansion, and so many others look fantastic...... While VC1 and AVC can offer lower bit-rates, they do not provide a better picture quality. They were never meant to... If this was the case why is it that every studio has released titles in MPEG2.... Even Warner.... ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 25th 2006 12:51PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fox confirms more 50GB, BD-J and MPEG-4 movie releases for December]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/25/fox-confirms-more-50gb-bd-j-and-mpeg-4-movie-releases-for-decem/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/25/fox-confirms-more-50gb-bd-j-and-mpeg-4-movie-releases-for-decem/</guid><description><![CDATA[It's jsut with only 25 GB for single layer discs, MPEG-2 is not a good choice because of the bitrates they must use to achieve 25 GB. With dual layer 50 GB discs, MPEG-2 is just fine, but MPEG-4 and VC-1 can be done at smaller bitrates allowing more room for extra features, while not sacrificing picture quality at all.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 25th 2006 12:57PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fox confirms more 50GB, BD-J and MPEG-4 movie releases for December]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/25/fox-confirms-more-50gb-bd-j-and-mpeg-4-movie-releases-for-decem/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/25/fox-confirms-more-50gb-bd-j-and-mpeg-4-movie-releases-for-decem/</guid><description><![CDATA[A big benefit seen thus far with VC-1 is that nearly all such releases went through Microsoft and Microsoft's VC-1 compression team is spending a lot of time and effort making sure the compressed release is indistinguishable from the master. A second plus of this is that the Microsoft team is quite vocal and willing to talk about their work over on the AVSForum, which makes the releases much more personal and gives one more confidence that the release is as good as it can get. Sure, MPEG-2 on a 50 GB disk can be just as good as VC-1; but there's no guarantee that whoever the studio is using to do the compression (in-house or otherwise) is actually spending the time to make sure it is.<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jdb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 25th 2006 1:22PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fox confirms more 50GB, BD-J and MPEG-4 movie releases for December]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/25/fox-confirms-more-50gb-bd-j-and-mpeg-4-movie-releases-for-decem/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/25/fox-confirms-more-50gb-bd-j-and-mpeg-4-movie-releases-for-decem/</guid><description><![CDATA[Looks like Fox is going to recycle all their D-theater titles on Blu-ray before focusing on new titles.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[WiFiSpy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 25th 2006 2:11PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fox confirms more 50GB, BD-J and MPEG-4 movie releases for December]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/25/fox-confirms-more-50gb-bd-j-and-mpeg-4-movie-releases-for-decem/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/25/fox-confirms-more-50gb-bd-j-and-mpeg-4-movie-releases-for-decem/</guid><description><![CDATA[Might want to fact-check that.  AFAIK, none of the following movies are on DVHS:<br><br>Kingdom of Heaven<br>Fantastic Four<br>The Omen<br>Transporter 2<br>Usual Suspects<br>Windtalkers<br>Bulletproof Monk<br>Rocky<br>The Sentinel<br>Rising Sun<br>Flight of the Phoenix<br>Devil Wears Prada<br><br>That would mean only 6 of the announced Fox Blu-ray titles are on DVHS, and many of these are recent (I think "The Devil Wears Prada" is even day-and-date).]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[zombieflanders]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 25th 2006 2:44PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fox confirms more 50GB, BD-J and MPEG-4 movie releases for December]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/25/fox-confirms-more-50gb-bd-j-and-mpeg-4-movie-releases-for-decem/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/25/fox-confirms-more-50gb-bd-j-and-mpeg-4-movie-releases-for-decem/</guid><description><![CDATA[So are they doing with all this extra space? Adding on a bigger audio codec and using mpeg 2?   ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Larry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 25th 2006 4:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fox confirms more 50GB, BD-J and MPEG-4 movie releases for December]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/25/fox-confirms-more-50gb-bd-j-and-mpeg-4-movie-releases-for-decem/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/25/fox-confirms-more-50gb-bd-j-and-mpeg-4-movie-releases-for-decem/</guid><description><![CDATA[Great. Can someone wake me up when I can pull the 1080P24 off the disk and actually get that out of a player like it was mastered in the first place? Heck, I'm even willing to make sure I have a display that accepts that 1080P24. :)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[GhostDoggy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 25th 2006 7:47PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fox confirms more 50GB, BD-J and MPEG-4 movie releases for December]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/25/fox-confirms-more-50gb-bd-j-and-mpeg-4-movie-releases-for-decem/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/25/fox-confirms-more-50gb-bd-j-and-mpeg-4-movie-releases-for-decem/</guid><description><![CDATA[Blu-Ray is gaining lead :D]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2006 2:17AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fox confirms more 50GB, BD-J and MPEG-4 movie releases for December]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/25/fox-confirms-more-50gb-bd-j-and-mpeg-4-movie-releases-for-decem/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/25/fox-confirms-more-50gb-bd-j-and-mpeg-4-movie-releases-for-decem/</guid><description><![CDATA[You cant say blu ray is gaining when all your talking about is titles released, no business is going to care about that if they are not selling, and that is blu rays biggest problem.  look at <br><a href="http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2006/08/02/hd-dvd-vs-blu-ray-extensive-sales-data-comparisons/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedvdwars.com%2Famazon.cfm%3Fassociates%3Ddrmdb-20&frame=true" rel="nofollow">http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2006/08/02/hd-dvd-vs-blu-ray-extensive-sales-data-comparisons/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedvdwars.com%2Famazon.cfm%3Fassociates%3Ddrmdb-20&frame=true</a><br><br>you can see that blu rays highest selling video is ranked something like 2300 on amazon while HDDVD is 150.  Everyone knew from the start that Blu Ray would have more titles, its all about sales, and if they dont pick up by first quarter 2007 expect fox and disney to start putting out HDDVD, assuming they want to make money.  Personally im still happy with my HDDVD, given I havent seen a single title from Sony, Fox, or Disney that I really miss, the one I was most excited about was House of the Flying daggers and it ended up looking like crap.  <br>Blu Rays next biggest problem is that alothough they are now putting out good looking titles, there has been no technical feature that makes Blu Ray better, the 50GB discs simply hold more, but HDDVDs best still looks as good a Blu Rays best, and in general terms HDDVD has had much better picture quality, and studios like paramount and Warner are simply using the same transfers for most discs, as it is cheaper to put the same info on both discs.<br>I hope Blu Ray simply dies, not becuase I hate Sony, HDDVD has simply been the better product thus far, giving better looking titles at less money, were talking about half of the price of blu ray.  When you have a product that performs equally at half the price that is a real technilogical innovation.  Anyone can make something work with lots of money...with the exception of Sony's own blu Ray player :)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Juice]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2006 1:49PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>