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Don't keep us in suspense, dave!
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Some more pompous statements from the BD camp..
The 342-min. Kingdom of Heaven will be Fox's first Blu-ray release on 50- GB dual-layer discs. Cinram does most Fox DVD replication and is expected to have a big hand in its Blu-ray titles, but Fox executives indicated the studio would source Kingdom & Heaven from Sony DADC in Terre Haute, Ind. DADC has said 50- GB production will begin there the week of Sept. 25, with daily Blu-ray output averaging about 100,000 discs. Production of 50-GB discs will account for 30% of total output a month later, when plant capacity hits 150,000 discs daily... ... Kingdom of Heaven is encoded in MPEG-2, a codec Microsoft and other HD DVD backers have criticized as passe and prone to visual artifacts when used for Blu-ray, Fox executive Danny Kaye told us. MPEG-2 is mandatory in HD DVD and Blu-ray. Fox will decide title by title which codec to use and may end up using MPEG-2, VC-1 and H.264, he said. Fox has a "full-on commitment" to launch in Blu-ray and no plans to back HD DVD, Dunn said. Consumers will choose the winning format, he said. For "emotional and rational" reasons, they will pick Blu-ray, he said. "Availability and versatility" of Blu-ray content offerings will make it "an easy consumer choice," Dunn said. ... Steve Nickerson, Warner Home Video (WHV) senior vp, said his studio may have been late to the Blu-ray party in the U.S., but except for Sony, it's been the most active. WHV will be "equally active in Europe," said Nickerson. In Nov., he said, WHV will launch Blu-ray at least in Austria, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and the U.K., with each market having 10 titles by Christmas. |
Some #'s for those interested:
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story...&IssueID=29167 BERLIN: Japanese electronics maker Toshiba said it aims to ship a total of 350,000 high-definition DVD players and recorders worldwide by the end of 2006 and a further 200,000 in the first quarter of 2007. "We've already shipped around 50,000 in the US and Japan. We plan to ship another 300,000 by the end of the year," Yoshihide Fujii, the head of Toshiba's digital consumer business, said. "In the first quarter of next year, we should ship another 200,000 worldwide," he added, speaking after giving a keynote speech to the IFA consumer electronics trade fair in Berlin. Toshiba said on Friday it would introduce its first two high-definition DVD (HD-DVD) players in Europe by November, priced between $768-$1,280. Fujii said the majority of the HD-DVD machines shipped would be players, which are still far cheaper than recorders, and about 70 per cent would go to the United States, with the rest about equally divided between Europe and Japan. "We see rapid growth in the recorder market, especially in Japan, in the second half of next year," he said, adding that prices were currently still above $3,000. Getting a critical mass of next-generation DVD players onto the market at the right price fast is crucial at the moment in the electronics sector, which is divided into two camps each supporting a different standard to succeed current DVDs. The HD-DVD camp is led by Toshiba, while the competing Blu-ray standard is supported by a group of companies around rival Japanese electronics maker Sony. |
50k shipped total in the world. Nice. I could be like others and dig up peoples posts claiming 500k sold by now, but ill just say, since launch, 50k SHIPPED. Not even 50k sold. I hope you realise what a drop in the bucket that is.
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As opposed to BD: 20,000 shipped, 12,000 sold, 11,999 returned.
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Amir posted some great news regarding VC1 ....
Two recent encodes are clocking in at 9-10 mbps! The encoders and progress in general with VC1 is getting better by the month! |
He said that Batman Begins was transparent at 10 mbps, but they kicked it up to 12 just to be safe.
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Originally Posted by digitalfreaknyc
Did it work?
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Originally Posted by Suprmallet
He said that Batman Begins was transparent at 10 mbps, but they kicked it up to 12 just to be safe.
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Dave, set all that stuff to ON (I think there's a firewall thing that you probably don't need to mess with). Then restart your player and see where that gets you.
Originally Posted by DthRdrX
Yep, I remember reading that last month in the insider thread, I believe. I wonder how low they can actually go without losing detail. I guess this is how LOTR is going to fit on a single 30GB disc.
What's even more incredible is that they can now fit 2 hours of HD DVD quality material on a SD DVD. |
Originally Posted by Blitz6Speed
50k shipped total in the world. Nice. I could be like others and dig up peoples posts claiming 500k sold by now, but ill just say, since launch, 50k SHIPPED. Not even 50k sold. I hope you realise what a drop in the bucket that is.
I wonder why Fox has such a hard on for BD. They can't possibly thing that the digital security of either format will last long, so that can't be what it is all about. It can't be about PQ. Maybe it is just about size, but even that seems premature to act like he drank the koolaid. |
Actually, it is about the copy protection. For some reason Fox thinks that people have better things to do than to sit around breaking copy protection schemes. Fox is wrong. :)
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Turning on everything wiped out the address numbers etc.
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Eek! Oops. Sorry. That's how it worked for me.
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I tried updating that way and got a VUP 133 error that said the connection with the server was terminated. So at least it was something new. :lol:
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Crap, I may end up reading the freading manual. :grunt:
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kvr,
turn everything on in that ethernet option and then do what I told you to do. Make sure the power is unplugged from your cable modem. then start it up again. It's a bitch but once you get it right, it'll be fine :) |
I will. I have no idea what my DNS server is, though. It doesn't seem to auto fill that one, and they are all at 0.
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Even when you unplug your cable modem and plug it back in?
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yeah. I'll play with it tomorrow. I still can't believe they don't have a site to download the upgrade and burn it to a dvd or something.
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Originally Posted by Blitz6Speed
50k shipped total in the world. Nice. I could be like others and dig up peoples posts claiming 500k sold by now, but ill just say, since launch, 50k SHIPPED. Not even 50k sold. I hope you realise what a drop in the bucket that is.
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Originally Posted by Qui Gon Jim
Clearly directed at me. Here's the thing though: I'm man enough to say I was wrong. I said that there were closer to 100,000 sold than the idiotic 5000 mentioned in the article. I am wrong to the tune of 5001 players. How can I sleep at night?
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Originally Posted by kvrdave
I will. I have no idea what my DNS server is, though. It doesn't seem to auto fill that one, and they are all at 0.
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Originally Posted by Blitz6Speed
High Def home movies are insane niche market. Well, till november, anyway.
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Dave:
Another alternative: Go to Start » Run. Type in cmd. A black window will come up. In the window, type ipconfig /all and press enter. Right-click anywhere in the window and select Select All. Then press enter. Paste this into Word or Notepad, print it out, and take it to your player. You want to manually put in all the same information except for IP address. Pick something with a number about 5 higher just to be safe. (For example, if the IP address shown is 192.168.1.102, make the IP address of the HD-DVD player 192.168.1.107; you may need to change this once or twice to get a number that works). |
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