Hell has frozen over: A mea culpa from 5thDanMaster aka Oshodi (Red Ant)

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Biggest DUD fanboy now turned FULLY BLU

http://forums.highdefdigest.com/showthread.php?t=47782

I agree: Blu-ray is superior to HD DVD!

I now agree that Blu-ray is better.

I have been the biggest proponent, and yes, fanboy for HD DVD since the format was launched. I listened and bought into every sales point and spin that the HD DVD Forum was selling through its own media marketing machine and I bought it hook, line, and sinker.

As Oshodi, I was notorious for fighting for the Red cause and blindly defending the honor of the Red side. The whole while, I believed the HD DVD was superior, and that when the BD guys were talking about high bitrate audio and video they were just spreading FUD and trying to confuse early adopters into believing that BR was better.
So blind was I in my devotion to the red format that I saw every talking point by the BDA as FUD.

About a month before the end of the war I bought my first BD player mainly because I couldn’t wait any longer, and because I honestly thought that the war would go on for years. Upon playing my first BD movie, which was Fantastic Four II, I noticed instantly that BD’s PQ was as good as HD DVD’s, and that the AQ was encoded in a much more superior and powerful encode. That amazed me. I had been convinced that HD DVD was better in picture and sound.
Upon closer examination after watching 5 BD movies, I realized what BD supporters were talking about when they referred to their format as having higher bitrates and more storage space. BD movies have much better grade of pixles in their picture than HD DVD because they are able to encode their movies at a much higher bitrate than HD DVD can. The other thing that shocked me was that BD audio was twice, and in some cases 3 times stronger than HD DVD’s audio for the same high bitrate reason. The BD people, because of disc size, are able to place large sums of audio data, completely uncompressed, on a BD disc without sacrificing PQ at all. They are able to put in movie previews in HD, load up a BD movies with ads, movie, audio special features, interactivity, all in one disc. This is why the movie studios and every major CE companies decided to support BR.

After watching only 2 BD movies my family unanimously told me that (Wait for it) Blu-ray is better! I didn’t want to believe it, but now, after watching over 30 BD movies with uncompromised AQ and high bitrate PQ, I have to say that they are right!
I now understand why the HD DVD camp rushed out their player: They knew the powerful potential of BR. They knew that if consumers were able to see a completed BD player released simultaneously with theirs, they would see the amazing upside and advantages that the new BD technology had over theirs. They knew that they were peddling old technology, they knew that BD was indeed superior from the start.

We HD DVD fans were the ones that were fooled, we were the ones that were taken advantage of; but not by the BDA, but by the HD DVD Group! They deceived us by selling us old technology wrapped up in new covering and convinced us that their tech was superior, if not in size, but that it was superior in technology: Because they knew that they had a product that was ready to market first. Msoft knew that iHD would be ready before BD-Live, so they pushed the fact that they had more interactivity and picture in picture.

I now fully endorse BD, an apologize for my hasty decision to judge the format without close examination of what it offers. And with all humility, I say that AVS members like Thebland, Fettastic, Kevinca1, were correct in their judgment and support of BR, and that I wished that I had listed to them sooner.

I am the biggest HD DVD ***** in the history of this war. I am in the top 2 of HD DVD fanboys at Blu-ray.com. If I tell you that BD is better, trust me, it is. I just came to the chilling truth.

I don't like the idea of a game console in my almost $15,000 HT. It's not about the PS3 for me, it is about the great advantage that BR has as a technology that I did not see from the start.

My wife straight out told me that BD was better! She noticed that the picture on BD was a lot more solid and 3 dimensional. She instantly noticed that the sound was by far superior and emersive. Michael Bay was right "BD is "sharper" then HD DVD"

Trust me when I say this, if guys from AVS and Blu-ray.com see this, they would be trying to see if frozen lava were coming out of the ground because hell had frozen over.

There is hope for this crazy world and the human race after all