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Originally Posted by Heresy
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Heresy, that was a National April's Fool Day article and it said so clearly on the page. If people didn't understand Spanish and fell for it...
It's like if a major web-site here in the US put one up saying "Sony abandons Blu-ray to make HD DVD players starting now." on April 1, and stating "April Fools!" on the page.
That site is one of the main sources of information for DVDs for Spain. Equivalent to the DVDTimes or any other respectable website.
Case in point, the article MrVandelay posted is one of the BEST articles on the high definition formats I've ever seen, just a couple of small errors, like saying the HD DVD A/V bit-rate being = to the max data rate, very thorough and clear, and it's also was one of the
first such articles of that class on the web:
High Definition: Blu-ray and HD-DVD
Now to the matter at hand:
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Originally Posted by MrVandelay
The article talks of both BD and HD-DVD, but "HD-DVD" is spelled the same in the article text as well as on the screenshots, so it would be that they came from "HD-DVD".
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Thank you for the link. I knew I had seen those pictures before but didn't know where. As I said above, that's an article explaining about the "new" high definition disc formats, from the
end of
May 2006:
From the
Requerimientos (Requirements) section on page 3 of the article:
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A pocos días de los primeros lanzamientos en HD-DVD y cuando queda sólo un mes para los primeros títulos en Blu-ray, ya se comienzan a conocer los datos en cuanto a contenidos.
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(A few days after the launch of the first titles on
HD-DVD and just when only one month remains before the first
Blu-ray titles, details about their content are starting to be known.)
This is what it says, immediately above the "HD" images you posted (the next section is about prices):
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Quality:
In first place there is the quality factor. As we have explained all along in this article, the differences between formats are few, and depending on how you master each, they could end up being negligible. However, if you push them to their maximum, Blu-ray is the one that can offer the best image quality thanks to its bigger storage capacity and bit-rate.
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It's impossible those images are from a New Line HD DVD as such thing didn't exist then, nor exists now. The images, even on the big version of the pictures that I linked in my previous post, are just 287 x 693 pixels (Scope ratio 2.40 wide), about the size of a letterboxed 4:3 encoded NTSC DVD image (which would be 267 x 720 pixels) so they could come from anywhere, be small promo pics or high definition sources, like the picture I posted, and they just did some standard graphic design work to show the differences between high definition and standard definition for illustration purposes for their readers.
(If you just wanna see how truly high def LOR would look at maximum bit-rates in comparison to DVD, just look at the Aragorn picture I posted...)
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LOR to be coming out soon on HD DVD, or is it for BD?
LOTR..On HD DVD
... makes sense... until something is announced, i have trouble believing it.
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