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« Reply #15 on: July 10, 2003, 05:25:27 PM »
WTF is crystal lattice?
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« Reply #16 on: July 10, 2003, 05:28:31 PM »
huh? Racer, the digital broadcasts of our broadcasters is HD. 1080i is the only thing the Federal Government is allowing and there are no other digital .. for lack of a better word... "formats" being broadcast. So whats this buisness about "one digital and one HD"?

Anyhoo, I don\'t think the increasing capacity of our happy little formats has much of substance to add to our movie expereince. The main thing is increased resolution and the movies I have on DVD do fine. What we should really be excited about are the new games that can be jammed in there. :)
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« Reply #17 on: July 10, 2003, 05:31:15 PM »
ACtually the mandate in 2006 is to broadcast in digital.  Not necessarily HDTV.  

Average Joes still have no clue about HD.  Both people who work with me have HD sets, but neither has ever seen HD.  One just got a DVD player. They bought an HD set and only use it for analog cable.  What a waste.
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« Reply #18 on: July 10, 2003, 05:33:07 PM »
Crystal lattice is using microlasers to write information on the molecular level of a crystal.  You use crystal, and basically you would be talking about virtually unlimited storage in a square centimeter of crystal (very high grade, expensive crystal to be sure).  The main hold up is that it\'s very very expensive to make an accurate reader/writer at these sizes, and speed is an issue if you want to make it mass-marketable.
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« Reply #19 on: July 10, 2003, 06:04:52 PM »
It\'s vapor ware, even to a higher degree than FMD and the company that started that is bankrupt. :P

Standards DVDs cannot do HD now.  WB is pushing for this but this low-tech technology also requires a new player.  This format trying to cram low-bitrate hi-def into 9 gigs is the devil to us HT geeks.

Sorry about the mistake, you guys had it right about the digi broadcast part.  I also have a neighbor that bought a nice 65" Toshiba hdtv and even satellite TV, but doesn\'t pay for any HD programming.. all the material looks crappy, it\'s sickening.
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« Reply #20 on: July 10, 2003, 07:36:22 PM »
Well heck, you walk into any Best Buy and it\'s 480p.  I laugh when people are like, oh that looks so good.  Heh, whatever.  Anyone that goes to Best Buy or Circuit City to learn about technology needs to be shot.  Well maybe that\'s a bit extreme, but an apendage certainly needs to be removed.
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« Reply #21 on: July 11, 2003, 02:56:44 AM »
You mean that the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy could be sold in a single Blu-Ray? Opss... Impressive, indeed.
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« Reply #22 on: July 11, 2003, 09:37:06 AM »
You could get a hell of a lot of porn on just one disc.
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« Reply #23 on: July 11, 2003, 01:36:56 PM »
TRUE THAT!!!!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #24 on: July 11, 2003, 06:38:37 PM »
IMO, the public may not want to invest in this. Like said before, people are investing in DVDs and they probably don\'t want to switch to a new kind of disk and movie type right now. Maybe after DVDs are out for 10 years this would catch on but I dont\' think it will fly just now. People are happy with DVDs. Why fix something thats not broken?
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« Reply #25 on: July 11, 2003, 06:51:35 PM »
If you have a fast computer, take a look at the WM9\'s that THX posted above.  The Termintaor one will blow your mind.  Makes DVDs look like shit.
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« Reply #26 on: July 12, 2003, 12:07:33 AM »
Yeah, see, I wasn\'t too sure about the HD thing in the US, but I know that in AUS, the federal government doesn\'t want to \'force\' the general public to have to buy a HD tv. I know that by 2008 ONLY digital and HD will be broadcast, but most networks (right now) have multiple channels viewing the exact same stuff (for example, Channel 9 Digital, Channel 9 HD). When show\'s like ER and movies come on on the HD channel, they are in HD, but when its something that isn\'t in HD, its just digital, just like the digital only channel, which only broadcasts digital.

Its all pretty confusing, but I thought the US would be similar.
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