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Offline Mr. Kennedy
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« Reply #30 on: January 12, 2006, 07:07:26 PM »
God I hope its at least 4 years before it becomes the norm.  I just got this TV.  Geez, technology can be a pain in the ass sometimes.
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« Reply #31 on: January 12, 2006, 08:59:17 PM »
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The XBR model is 1080


Your Bravia XBR LCD is actually 1366 x 768p, not 1920 x 1080p.  But don\'t sweat it as my 34" CRT is only like around 900 x 1080i.  There is more to picture quality than just resolution like black level and contrast ratio.  Hence, the reasons why Toshiba 42" SED with 1280 x 720p resolution were being highly praised even against 1080p plasma at CES.  Thanks to it high contrast ratio and black level.

And that\'s the thing about your LCD TV is that the contrast ratio is still lacking.  I bet that your LCD TV reach no more than 2,000:1 at its highest compare to CRT with a contrast ratio of 50,000:1 or maybe even higher than that.

But again, a contrast ratio of 2,000:1 is quite an improvement compare to LCD years ago where it\'s only around 300:1...
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« Reply #32 on: January 12, 2006, 09:10:41 PM »
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I said when it is the well-established digital medium standard.  I don\'t see them phasing out dvd\'s right away pretty much the same way dvd didn\'t phase out casettes right away.  It takes time before stores really move over and adopt the medium and when there\'s plenty of titles on the medium to really make a large library.  I don\'t see all the current movies out now hitting blu-ray for quite some time.  Certainly took us an awful long time for us to get Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, and many other great movies we all wanted for a long time on DVD.

How old is the DVD medium currently? I know the players were like 1000 bucks at one point. 97 was it? Little later? Little earlier? It\'s 2006 now. DVD\'s weren\'t the full on accepted medium until 2000 at the earliest.


It was funny going into the rental stores and seeing one small rack of DVDs.  Then it slowly started getting bigger.  And bigger...  Then they finally took over.

They national launch was mid/late-Sept 1997, though certain cities could get it before that.  I remember every best buy had a demo of Twister going on.

Good news about getting classics on hd-dvd/blu-ray is the old movies you mentioned above were digitally mastered from film in 1080p.  Meaning the source is already there, and the hard part is finished.  It\'ll just take some nudging to the studios to re-release in hi-def.
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« Reply #33 on: January 12, 2006, 09:17:47 PM »
speaking of digitally mastered 1080p, I can imagine the bandwidth it require for that uncompressed is nearly 1 Gbits to 1.5 Gbits per second depending if it\'s 1080p/24 or 1080p/30 and if it\'s using 4:2:2 Y Cb Cr sampling or 4:4:4 Y Cb Cr...or going full 24 bits RGB...
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« Reply #34 on: January 13, 2006, 12:11:05 AM »
1080P will be awesome, but yeah... it\'s not like it\'s gonna be widely adopted within the year. It\'s gonna take a while.

And I know I don\'t want to buy the first 1080P sets. I\'ll wait for them to work out the kinks and get one when price and quality is better matched. But it\'s certainly an exciting time for home cinema. :)
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« Reply #35 on: January 13, 2006, 04:57:16 AM »
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It was funny going into the rental stores and seeing one small rack of DVDs. Then it slowly started getting bigger. And bigger... Then they finally took over.


Yeah, it took quite awhile, but I think the PS2 played a very large part in making that possible.  299 at launch, at that time, was a VERY affordable DVD player -- not to mention gaming system.
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« Reply #36 on: January 13, 2006, 06:27:05 AM »
So true and Sony is bankin\' on that happening with Blu-Ray. Will it? Most likely, but that will be the only way a Blu-Ray player will sell.
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« Reply #37 on: January 13, 2006, 08:59:46 AM »
Well, the thing that comes to my attention is that blu-ray is not a player that\'s already out and known about.  It\'s not like movies are being made in that format at this very second like they were in DVD before the PS2 came out.  Sony will basically be launching this new medium with the console.  People can continue to ignore the movies on blu ray primarily because the benefits aren\'t seen unless someone owns and uses an HDTV -- a market that is growing, but still hardly as wide spread as say DVD players in homes.  At least the prices are coming down into the range of affordability.
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« Reply #38 on: January 13, 2006, 09:20:29 AM »
I\'d like to think the TV I got is somewhat exceptional, but from what I reading, it\'s not.  However, it\'s a lot better than my non-HD 19" CRT TV.  It\'s hard to believe that a product Sony launched in August could barely be considered top of the line.
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« Reply #39 on: January 13, 2006, 11:28:06 AM »
Sony make great CRT sets, and I owned two Sony CRTs, one 20" NTSC and one 34" HDTV.  And they are fabulous.

It\'s not about Sony that I am don\'t like LCD, it\'s just that it\'s LCD that I am not a fan of LCD and seeing 32" costing $2,700, that\'s a bit pricey compares to their competitors imo.
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« Reply #40 on: January 13, 2006, 12:02:46 PM »
yes... yes, I can...
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