Sunday, March 5, 2006
A Wide-Ranging Conversation About the Debut of High-Definition Disks
Posted by Jeremy Charette in "ARTICLE" @ 07:00 AM
"In this exclusive interview, Consumer Electronics Net's Charlie White speaks with Mark Knox, adviser to the HD DVD Promotion Group. In part one of this multipart interview series, Knox talks about the competition between HD DVD and Blu-ray, the resolutions and codecs used in the first disks to be shipped, and the Toshiba players which will be on the market in March of 2006."
This is an outstanding interview, and one I highly recommend reading if you're thinking of getting an HD player or HDTV in the next year or so. The highlights: 1080p is a non-issue due to the fact that the HDMI specificaiton doesn't support it, Blu-Ray has greater storage capacity per layer but needs it since the compression format is not as good, DRM will be a non-issue for the typical consumer, Blu-Ray discs will be considerably more expensive to manufacture, larger screen sizes necessitate higher resolutions, and copy protection will allow manufacturers to trace pirated discs to the person that produced them. Blu-Ray is looking more and more like the BetaMax of the next generation. Great in theory, but inferior in practice.
This is an outstanding interview, and one I highly recommend reading if you're thinking of getting an HD player or HDTV in the next year or so. The highlights: 1080p is a non-issue due to the fact that the HDMI specificaiton doesn't support it, Blu-Ray has greater storage capacity per layer but needs it since the compression format is not as good, DRM will be a non-issue for the typical consumer, Blu-Ray discs will be considerably more expensive to manufacture, larger screen sizes necessitate higher resolutions, and copy protection will allow manufacturers to trace pirated discs to the person that produced them. Blu-Ray is looking more and more like the BetaMax of the next generation. Great in theory, but inferior in practice.
