Death blow to Toshiba's SRT/SUC/Res+ upconverter: It doesn't work in real-time!

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Originally Posted by ckenisell

They even went as far as hiring people to bash Blu-Ray supporters on the internet (eh hem...av$forum anybody?). I was personally bashed for spreading the truth about Blu-Ray on such forums.

True. What gets me is the amount the avs'ers were led astray. It's like anything that came out of Amir's mouth was gospel.

VC1 is the greatest invention since sliced bread and BD50 breaks the law of physics.

Heck that SOB still is held in some regard over there. He is just an engineer who has some knowledge to skew his argument to fit MSFT's agenda even though he is no longer on the MSFT payroll.

Some of his latest rant were on how lossless was just marketing spin and how hand tuned DACs from Mark Levinson with a lossy format were better than a true lossless system without touched by god DACs.

Sorry, there is a lot of snakeoil in the AV business, but hand tuned DACs ranks right up there with Monster cable marketing BS. The steps between levels is so small with 24-bit high resolution DACs, I don't think someone can handtune them reliably. Don't you think the mass produced DACs are being QA'd so you know you are getting a quality DAC?

Last I checked my Onkyo 805 has some of best Burr Brown DACs available, the 1796 chipset. Good DACs today are the rule not the exception.

Hisargument why lossless was not needed was just another veiled attack against BD. Typical Amir BS.