Anybody else mad @ Sony

[Luis_A51]

Lets get one thing straight. Sony doesnt use TrueHD to save room for increased video quality. (their video quality is already tops anyways)

They use TrueHD so they can fit more dubbed sountracks in.

And yes I know most people dont have 7.1 setups. But bluray has the space and specs for 7.1 setups. I would much prefer the main track to be in 7.1 than have a bunch of pointless extras. Sony should be putting the effort in to show off ALL the bells and whistles of bluray.

[prerich]

Originally Posted by Luis_A51

Lets get one thing straight. Sony doesnt use TrueHD to save room for increased video quality. (their video quality is already tops anyways)

They use TrueHD so they can fit more dubbed sountracks in.

And yes I know most people dont have 7.1 setups. But bluray has the space and specs for 7.1 setups. I would much prefer the main track to be in 7.1 than have a bunch of pointless extras. Sony should be putting the effort in to show off ALL the bells and whistles of bluray.

+1

[davcole]

The only thing I could be mad at Sony at is that LEGENDS OF THE FAL doesn't have a release date!

Seriously, after a bad start, they have managed to put out quality products but the real issue is that the BDA didn't mandate at least one lossless codec.

With Disney experimenting with lossless tracks I think the road is clear that lossless will become the default audio format. Sadly those 1st and 2nd generation owners lose out because of this.

[Stephie_is_a_dork]

As much as I want Home, I'd rather they take longer and get it right than push EA-level crap on us.

[owa]

Originally Posted by Stephie_is_a_dork

As much as I want Home, I'd rather they take longer and get it right than push EA-level crap on us.

I'm not the target audience but I'm looking forward to seeing it implemented just to see how they do with it. Seems like it would be a really though thing to pull off. Anyway, hopefully they nail it so people won't be upset for having waited so long.

[gandley]

not exactly the time of year you bring out any sort of big release. this is the quiet time in the av world you know. things will pick up soon enough.

[Ectoplasm]

I love lossless audio tracks.

I also think Dolby TrueHD is a good thing. Why? Because people get the best of both worlds. If you own something capable of decoding it, you get full lossless sound. If you don't own a capable decoder, you still get the 1.5mps core, which stills sounds far better than Dolby Digital, to my ears.

I believe Sony is doing what is best for the customer by providing this codec.

[dakota81]

Originally Posted by Ectoplasm

I also think Dolby TrueHD is a good thing. Why? Because people get the best of both worlds. If you own something capable of decoding it, you get full lossless sound. If you don't own a capable decoder, you still get the 1.5mps core, which stills sounds far better than Dolby Digital, to my ears.

I think you're confusing TrueHD for DTS-HD MA.

[ClaytonMG]

Originally Posted by Ectoplasm

I love lossless audio tracks.

I also think Dolby TrueHD is a good thing. Why? Because people get the best of both worlds. If you own something capable of decoding it, you get full lossless sound. If you don't own a capable decoder, you still get the 1.5mps core, which stills sounds far better than Dolby Digital, to my ears.

I believe Sony is doing what is best for the customer by providing this codec.

Yeah that's not right. You get either a 448kbps core, or a 640kbps core. 1.5 is the DTS-HD core.

As for me, there should be (and in most cases isn't) no difference between PCM and Dolby TrueHD. In fact, Sony uses the 24-Bit master to create the TrueHD track, while they lower the PCM tracks to 16-Bit.

One thing I am pissed about are the old adds they'd use which advertised movies like Bad Boys II. It's 2 years after they started using this title (along with Lawrence of Arabia, Charlie's Angels, Once Upon A Time In Mexico and a few others) to promote Blu-Ray, without it actually being on Blu-Ray or even being announced that they're working on it/them. Not cool.

[Alan Gordon]

Blu-Ray sales tank for good reasons

I'm thinking the above guy is!

~Alan

[ClaytonMG]

Originally Posted by Alan Gordon

Blu-Ray sales tank for good reasons

I'm thinking the above guy is!

~Alan

Reading that hurt my head... All it sounded like was that he was mad that he couldn't pirate his movies, but yet he still wanted to say that Blu-Ray costs more. I don't think I've paid $29.99 for a title since I've joined Amazon Prime. Even if I didn't join Amazon Prime, the prices still would rarely be that high. So lets look at Walk Hard. 2 Disc DVD set, $22.99. Blu-Ray with exclusive features, $24.75 or close to it when I ordered it on Amazon and got it the day it came out. I'm sorry, but I don't see his complaint. He obviously hasn't done enough research yet which I realized when he said BD Live lets them install software on your player and get information from you that will hurt you.

[Alan Gordon]

Originally Posted by ClaytonMG

Reading that hurt my head... All it sounded like was that he was mad that he couldn't pirate his movies, but yet he still wanted to say that Blu-Ray costs more. I don't think I've paid $29.99 for a title since I've joined Amazon Prime. Even if I didn't join Amazon Prime, the prices still would rarely be that high. So lets look at Walk Hard. 2 Disc DVD set, $22.99. Blu-Ray with exclusive features, $24.75 or close to it when I ordered it on Amazon and got it the day it came out. I'm sorry, but I don't see his complaint. He obviously hasn't done enough research yet which I realized when he said BD Live lets them install software on your player and get information from you that will hurt you.

If your head hadn't started hurting you, you might have noticed how he was talking UP HD DVD.

Me thinks research wasn't the reason for the rant... or maybe it was considering he had HD DVD.

~Alan