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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:59 am  Post subject:
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killingjokezzz wrote:
I disagree, apart from the rarities that will forever remain on VHS or DVD I only ever watch HD now, either BR or HD-DVD (for now) rips.


off course, if you're one of those lucky bastards that has unlimited internet, I can understand it
unfortunately, that doesn't exist over here so...

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How are you watching those rips killingjokezzz?

I'm not sure what the best way to view 1080p content is, the 360 is a bit of a fucking joke when it comes to being used as a media extender!

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Yeah, I thought as much :(

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I use a 360 for WMV-HD and a PS3 for mkvs converted to either mp4's or VOB's - works quite well.

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What do you use to convert the mkvs?

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I don't know about killingjokezzz, but I use mkv2VOB.

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Gotsent for mp4s:

http://sentry23.googlepages.com/

and like MCMLXXXVIII mkv2vob

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=131782

I'm not having much luck with mkv2vob 2.0 beta though, I keep getting a runtime error - I'm going to stick with v1.5.3 for now.

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This makes no difference to me currently. I dont have anything that can play either formats.


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Me neither. Rippers who have could downsample rips, get a much higher quality as already and still offer the movies as XviD AVIs. Do those BlueRayDisc players play AVI files?


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killingjokezzz wrote:
Gotsent for mp4s:

http://sentry23.googlepages.com/

and like MCMLXXXVIII mkv2vob

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=131782

I'm not having much luck with mkv2vob 2.0 beta though, I keep getting a runtime error - I'm going to stick with v1.5.3 for now.


And I'm not having much luck with gotsent, it keeps complaining about an "Audio Extraction Error"

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Yeah I've had that with one 1080p/DTS file. Used mkv2ob on that one instead.

720p files always work with gotsent though and most 1080p do as well.

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I'm hoping the price of BluRay discs goes down, I am unwilling to pay over $30 for a movie, most of the really good ones start out at that price point.

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They will but they will always be far beyond the manufacturing and fair profit margins. The MPAA are a cartel after all.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:04 am  Post subject: Re: HD DVD War Over - BLURAY Wins?
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Well, for me its all backfired. I now have 35 HD-DVDs and a whopping zero blurays :lol: I've noticed a price hike in Blurays, the removal of hd-dvds from stores and a plethora of bargain hd-dvds all over the web, but sales don't seem to have gained much:
http://anangrydakotademocrat.blogspot.c ... d-dvd.html
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Sales of Blu-ray players, excluding PlayStation 3 game consoles, dropped 40 percent from January to February in the U.S., according to NPD. Sales grew only 2 percent from February to March. The firm didn't release numbers of players sold.


http://www.rlslog.net/blu-ray-sales-dow ... mpetition/
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Looks like it wasn’t the HD DVD/Blu-ray battle that was keeping potential customers away from high-definition video players after all. The NPD Group released some of its retail sales tracking data Wednesday that showed sales of Blu-ray standalone players (not a PlayStation 3, combo player, or PC with Blu-ray drive) had mostly decreased since the beginning of the year. Standalone Blu-ray player unit sales in the U.S. decreased 40 percent from January to February and saw a very slight increase (2 percent) between February and March, according to NPD. HD DVD players fared even worse–player unit sales dropped 13 percent from January to February, and 65 percent from February to March–which was expected. Toshiba stopped production of HD DVD units in February, and the format’s promotional group disbanded in March.

So what does this mean for Blu-ray player vendors? Why haven’t sales experienced any sort of substantial uptick without a competitor? Prices offer one clue. Blu-ray player prices were at their peak for the year in mid-March, around $400. During the holiday shopping season the average price had been closer to $300. But more likely is what NPD’s high-def video analysts have been harping on for a while: that DVD is “good enough” for most consumers. And that the picture offered by a Blu-ray Disc and accompanying player doesn’t appear so overwhelmingly better than a standard DVD and an upconverting player that many consumers can’t justify the dramatically increased cost. To that point, sales of significantly less expensive upconverting DVD players have actually increased 5 percent over the first quarter of 2008, compared with the same quarter a year ago. Standard DVD player sales dropped 39 percent over the same period.


I've been reading about two things from japan; first is that toshiba is imminently revealling a "super upconverter" and an "extension of the DVD spec", whatever that means, and secondly, that Japan has something called "super hi-vision" which is 17x the resolution of BluRay / HD-DVD. There's a few reports of the BBC playing with it too:
http://ertweekly.com/default.aspx.locid ... ang-EN.htm
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=super+ ... =firefox-a
Whopping 7680 x 4320, that's 4320p (!!!!), with a bitrate of several hundred mbps as opposed to double digits with hd-dvd, bluray and single digits with dvd


i've been pirating HD downloads like a trooper atm, i've given up on the disc formats... alt.binaries.hdtv.x264 !

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 1:21 am  Post subject: Re: HD DVD War Over - BLURAY Wins?
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:57 am  Post subject: Re: HD DVD War Over - BLURAY Wins?
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neat, no optical drive so i guess that sums that up... not needed. :lol:

"Ethernet 10/100", that's a bit worrying... can't cost them that much to stick 1000 on these surely? Seems a bit odd ommitting it from a machine that's primary aim is video, particularly hd video, playback. Windows Media center I take it?

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* ASP@L5, 720p, 1-point GMC


I assume that means x264 @ 1080p is a no then?

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:40 am  Post subject: Re: HD DVD War Over - BLURAY Wins?
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 1:16 pm  Post subject: Re: HD DVD War Over - BLURAY Wins?
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* ASP@L5, 720p, 1-point GMC


I assume that means x264 @ 1080p is a no then?


ASP = Xvid. It supports Xvid up to 720p, but for x264 the only restriction is HP@L4.1 and now even all 1080p rips are encoded at that level, which is also the one supported by h264 hardware accelerated video cards.


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