how much $$$ will a high-definition movie DVD cost?

[LT. Columbo]

not a horror. mystery/suspense/thriller kind of thing. brad pitt and morgan freeman are 2 cops trying to find a demented serial killer. go to IMDB and check out the trailer.

[drfsupercenter]

IC. I think I will

[LT. Columbo]

tell me what you think about it or if it looks to scary for you but do it in the monster movie thread.
this thread has been hi-jacked enough.

[NightTran]

I am very sorry if I was the one guilty, you are a good detective LT

[cynthia]

Time for a new hijack...

If you want to be able to backup an AACS protected disc of yours - you need to get around the encryption. Wonder who will be the first one to do that.

http://www.nanocrew.net/2006/01/08/deaacscom/

[anonymez]

Unless you got a hugely huge TV, I don't see a difference.

search the forum for the 'want hdtv today' thread. if you by any chance have a dvd of any of the screenshots i have posted in that thread, resize up to the same res & compare them. though opinions will be respected, if you say there is no difference you are a liar (as opposed to "I see no difference" ). unless something is terribly wrong, HD will look better on any pc monitor and plasma/lcd/big display.

it all comes down to how much you notice the quality, how big/good your display is (or how picky you are). personally i have to tolerate dvd's, i've gotten used to hdtv (even if its upconverted). dvd's now look terrible to me.

as for the prices of the HD/BR dvd's, i can say i won't be buying anything of the sort till i feel "secure" in my investment. that means compatibility will all movies released by all studios, ability to back up all movies, decent/reasonably priced players/media, etc



i dare you to find ANY regular dvd on the market whose quality even comes close to mpeg-2 hdtv (or even highly compressed x264)

[drfsupercenter]

But on a 27" TV... it looks fine.

Even my grandparent's 50" HDTV it looks excellent.

[anonymez]

everybody has a different definition of "looks fine" and especially "looks excellent".

[drfsupercenter]

Seriously, DVDs look great on my crappy system. When my camera (finally) comes in next week I will take some pics so you all can pity me

[admin]

For 1080i/p HD, I don't think you will be able to notice too much improvement (over DVD) on anything smaller than 42" (the increased pixels may be there, but you probably won't be able to see it unless you sit really close to the TV).

1080i HD using MPEG-2 @ 12 Mbps actually looks worse than a 9Mbps DVD upscaled to 1080i - the upscaled DVD is less sharp, but has much less artifacts. 1080p HD using MPEG-2 @ 20 Mbps (nearly the maximum bitrate that can be used if the movie is to fit onto 1 Blu-ray disc) won't look the best either, so MPEG-4 AVC (can deliver the same quality at half the bitrate) is a must. Unfortunately, we won't be seeing MPEG-4 AVC disc (at least blu-ray ones) for some time yet.

As for the cost, it will definitely be more than DVDs, I wouldn't be surprised if it was double the price. As for blank media prices:

At the 2006 International CES, Panasonic made several announcements in regards to pricing of BD-R/BD-RE media. A single layer BD-R will have the retail price of $17.99 (USD). A dual layer BD-R will have the retail price of $42.99. A single layer BD-RE will have the retail price of $24.99, while the dual layer variety will retail for $59.99.

[tigerman8u]

That's alot of $ for media. I think my 1st experiments will be to try to span a hd movie over sl media

[drfsupercenter]

OMFG $25 for one disc?!?!?!? No way man! DVD+R's for me!

I do remember when DVD burners were $400, back when I bought my computer (which is why I didn't get one), and they only burned at 2x. And DVD-R's were like $3 each, but $25, that is just too much!

[LT. Columbo]

that is insane. dvd-5's all the way for this fella.

@drf

OMFG

i'm shocked!, do you kiss your mother with that mouth?

[drfsupercenter]

Of course not! Just an acronym... here it means "Oh my freaking God" not what you guys interpret it as LOL

[LT. Columbo]

how silly of me. freaking. of course.