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Amazon BOGOs FTW!!! Picked up the first 4 Harry Potter movies 2 days ago for 45 bucks shipped.
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It looks like you missed the thread.
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1259843
If by better you mean more DRM shoved down our throats, then yes.
Just for your information, Blu-ray has a higher video bit rate(max). The bit rate is the amount of information that is processed and displayed on your HDTV. Blu-ray has a maximum video bit rate that is 33 percent higher then HD DVDs. Combined with a highter storage capacity, Blu-ray can produce a higher quality 1080P picture that is sharper and more detailed. I hope this information gives you a better understanding of why Blu-ray is by far the better format.
Movies are mastered according to what disk size they are going onto. 60% of Blu-ray releases are on 25GB disks, while around 90% of HD DVD releases are on 30GB disks. If anything, many of the releases are so they can fit on Blu-ray disks. There are very few 50GB disk production lines that studios have access to all the time, and Singulus doesn't even have one yet. Even with the 50GB+ disks, it isn't like we are going to see better quality movies. Around 30mbit/sec h264/vc-1 encoding is where the limit is for the cutoff of noticeable quality in 1080p on a large screen in your home at proper viewing distance.. You also have to remember this is only peak bitrate. Most of the movie where people are standing around and talking is less than 15mbit/sec. Action scenes and motion spikes up the bitrate more. But with larger disks, they'll just pack more standard def extras onto them.W1retap, the problem is that the movie was almost certainly mastered for the lowest common deominator. The only way to know if one is better than the other is to have a movie mastered for HD and mastered seperately for BD. Then we'd know for sure one way or the other.
In the end, if they're both identical, I want BD because the winner is likely to be the winner on the PC, and I'd rather have 25GB than 15gb.
Just for your information, Blu-ray has a higher video bit rate(max). The bit rate is the amount of information that is processed and displayed on your HDTV. Blu-ray has a maximum video bit rate that is 33 percent higher then HD DVDs. Combined with a highter storage capacity, Blu-ray can produce a higher quality 1080P picture that is sharper and more detailed. I hope this information gives you a better understanding of why Blu-ray is by far the better format.
1080p is 1080p there is no visual difference. Also, the Blu-Ray format doesn't equate higher resolution. The fact that is has more storage allows you to store movies encoded at a higher resolution.
If I'm wrong feel free to prove it.
The fact that is has more storage allows you to store movies encoded at a higher resolution
Blu-ray has a max bit rate of 40.0
Higher Storage Capacity + Higher Video Bit Rate = A Better 1080P Picture.