Step into Liquid BD 1080P vs WMVHD 1080P

[prerich]

This is going to be great! I'm going to get this BD and compare it side by side with the WMV-HD. If they have a downloadable BD trailer that will be even better (I bought WMV-HD's before BD or HD-DVD...RIP came out). This will be very interesting! Although my set isn't 1080p (native 720p/1080i I watch everything in 720p) - I do have access to 1080p capable sets. I will plug one in with a PS3 and the other with a HTPC with a high end video card!

[ranma]

Nice, please post a review to compare WMV-HD and BD after you got them.

[Minimejer05]

Wmv Hd?

[WriteSimply]

If they do it right, the BD will win. More bandwidth means more detail and lossless sound.


fuad

[prerich]

Originally Posted by WriteSimply

If they do it right, the BD will win. More bandwidth means more detail and lossless sound.


fuad

This is true - WMV-HD is used by Microsoft to have actual 1080p content on a regular DVD. I just want to see how good Microsoft's compression is compared to a BD.

[SBrooks1]

Originally Posted by prerich

This is true - WMV-HD is used by Microsoft to have actual 1080p content on a regular DVD. I just want to see how good Microsoft's compression is compared to a BD.

You should see Blu-ray's converted to WMV HD. I, Robot looks DAMN good. The sound is nice too. Obviously not as good as the Blu-ray but it's impressive.

[SBrooks1]

Originally Posted by Minimejer05

Wmv Hd?

Yea man, it's good stuff

[prerich]

Originally Posted by SBrooks1

Yea man, it's good stuff

Wow!!! You have all of those on WMVHD? Are they from Europe (they have a greater availability of WMVHD over there) or are you 'muxing?

[SBrooks1]

Originally Posted by prerich

Wow!!! You have all of those on WMVHD? Are they from Europe (they have a greater availability of WMVHD over there) or are you 'muxing?

I'm not muxing anything. Just downloading them all straight from Usenet newsgroups.

[prerich]

Originally Posted by Minimejer05

Wmv Hd?

This was 1080p before BD and HD-DVD. The problem - very little protection other than DRM. This is how IMAX did all of their HD material before BD and HD-DVD. Here's the site URL http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...uthdvideo.aspx
I expect BD to be better (especially in the audio department if the do it right) - just because of the available space. I kinda wish, with all of the available space, that BD would drop TrueHD and DTS-HD Master and just do all tracks via LPCM (like Disney does, but that would mean that everybody that had a receiver that had 7.1 analog inputs for LPCM (SACD, DVD-A) would be ready and no one would have a need to upgrade their receivers...Hmmmmm?).

[Kirsty_Mc]

Originally Posted by Minimejer05

Wmv Hd?

Windows Media Video - High Definition. A Microsoft format that was able to deliver HD on a DVD.

A highly compressed and very intensive on the processor format. Not as good as BD (or even HD-DVD). Absolutely riddled by DRM. The result being that if you bought a copy of certain movies (Terminator 2 for example), you had to connect to the internet to get a license to watch it. In the case of Terminator 2 if it detected an IP out of it's region it simply would not play. You would have to find a proxy server. These proxy servers then started not to work till none worked.

So the upshot was that with the DRM you could buy a product and at any time they could withdraw your right to watch it. That is Microsoft for you.

Makes you wonder why an ethernet slot was compulsory on HD-DVD. I'm sure if it had won, DRM riddled titles would have followed shortly thereafter. Perhaps why they did not use region codes... they had something much worse up their sleeve.

[prerich]

Originally Posted by Kirsty_Mc

Windows Media Video - High Definition. A Microsoft format that was able to deliver HD on a DVD.

A highly compressed and very intensive on the processor format. Not as good as BD (or even HD-DVD). Absolutely riddled by DRM. The result being that if you bought a copy of certain movies (Terminator 2 for example), you had to connect to the internet to get a license to watch it. In the case of Terminator 2 if it detected an IP out of it's region it simply would not play. You would have to find a proxy server. These proxy servers then started not to work till none worked.

So the upshot was that with the DRM you could buy a product and at any time they could withdraw your right to watch it. That is Microsoft for you.

Makes you wonder why an ethernet slot was compulsory on HD-DVD. I'm sure if it had won, DRM riddled titles would have followed shortly thereafter. Perhaps why they did not use region codes... they had something much worse up their sleeve.

Very good post. I actually believe that there is still something more sinister up the studio's, Microsoft, and Apple's sleeves.
But - I'm a known conspiracy theory advocate