Next-gen high definition blue laser movie DVDs are going to be 1080/24P both for marketing-bogosity numerical superiority reasons and also for real potential quality benefits. I think this is a done deal and is not worth talking about much more. There will be few if any 720/24P blue laser movie titles. The basic tenet is that whatever movie content is on these DVDs must be better in all respects to what a consumer can obtain today or tomorrow over terrestrial, cable or satellite connections. It must be both bogosity-superior and actually demonstrably superior. I don't think that's wrong. I've seen many of the H.264/AVC tests, and I do believe that in the sub-20Mbit range they can deliver 1080/24P on a disk that which most consumers have never seen before and that which most displays will not be able to do justice to for many many years to come. That's the goal - future proof. And it fits in the runtime, with bonus material, etc etc etc. As much as I like 720/N P for live broadcast applications, and I applaud Fox and ABC and ESPN for doing what they've done, I don't think you'll see much if any movie content authored that way on blue laser disks. The delicate matter in all of the above, of course, is making sure that the 1920 by 1080 content on the blue laser disk is just shy of what you can expect in terms of a D-Cinema experience in the theatre. Lord knows you wouldn't want to eat into box office revenues with blue laser product that was so good in home theatres that it kept people from going out at night.... This is one reason why "D-Cinema" has been defined to be 2048 by 1080 - just a notch above "HD". And now we see that "D-Cinema" is being rigidly defined to be 4096 by 2160, even though we know that that there is no real information out there in the high frequency band. Talk about bogosity..... -----Original Message----- From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Manfredi, Albert E Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 4:45 PM To: OpenDTV (E-mail) Subject: [opendtv] Re: Optimizing the system Michael Hazarian wrote: [Recording material in HD-DVDs as 1080 versions of HD] > Would it reduce future sales of "new and improved, Super HD-DVD" > versions of the same media that consumers have already purchased? YES! Excellent point! Maybe that's the logic behind Craig's seemingly incomprehensible stand. Finally something that makes sense. Let's provide the smallest possible improvement with HD-DVDs, just so we can soak consumers with a complete redo of their yet-to-begin HD-DVD library in the shortest amount of time. It's called planned obsolescence. So it's nothing to do with "economics" of the consumer. It's "economics" of the media moguls he's fussing about. Oooooooh. Who knew? Boy, was I off base. Of course, this plays against the economics of the CE manufacturers, who would have a much easier time selling their upcoming over-60" sets if consumers were already equipped with 1080-line software. Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.