Consumer Reports Gets It Right - Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are Equal

[yettitheman]

Just wait until UHDTV comes out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_High_Definition_Video

Let the format war begin again.

 

[yettitheman]

I should ADD:
"The eighteen-minute uncompressed UHDV footage in the NHK demonstration consisted of 3.492 terabytes of data, with each minute requiring 194 gigabytes."

 

[stratman]

Just wait until UHDTV comes out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_High_Definition_Video

Let the format war begin again.

Can you imagine this? We can't get our crapola together with regular HD now leave it to the Japanese to stir the pot some more! They'll adopt it in the not too distant future, then in about 20 years time we'll get there. Bose will have it's format called Bo-ray, HD DVD and Bluray will be history, and we'll be using sugar cube sized, multi-petabyte or exabyte storage devices for the holographic movies we download from the net.

 

[solomr2]

These guys are shopping for commercial and military deals... this is not consumer grade stuff.

Put one of these babies on a SR71, fly it over Iran at 50k feet, and in 1 minute of video you have a high-resoultion image of the entire country that you can take from cockpit to an analysts desk without conversion.

Similarly, you can use this kind of stuff for Geological and Geographic surveying activities. For example, the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) pays a fortune to have some commercial enterprise fly over the everglades to survey water flows and erosion. With something like this, they could lower costs 10-fold.

 

[allsop4now]

Exactly. A really good transfer will look great (even in standard def.) By contrast, a poor transfer will not benefit from the hi def format.

Indeed, some assume that just because that a format is high-resolution anything released on it must be great.