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Thread ID: 75638	2007-01-05 21:59:00	Getting into HD DVD..	Chilling_Silence (9)	Press F1

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513075	2007-01-06 07:07:00	Exactly.The 360 has a DVD drive.	Metla (12)
513076	2007-01-06 07:42:00	I know this but its an optional extra.. I shoulda clarified, my bad :P www.xbox.com Apparently it works with your PC also? ..if I could go internal that'd be ideal though. I was reading stats somewhere, and apparently in parts of the US theres 1 in every 5 homes with a HDTV?! NFI where that was from though, but I remember it coz I was like :O :O :O	Chilling_Silence (9)
513077	2007-01-06 07:54:00	success of the iPod and iTunes store since the movies from the store use the H.264 codec and lots of people with iPods have Xbox 360s. The H.264 codec which I think is for HD DVD was developed by Apple and ratified by the engineering consortium backing the formats. Have just checked and yes Sony is supporting Blu Ray. whatis.techtarget.com Sony is supporting Blu-Ray because its their technology. The H.264 codec is supported by both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, except the "standard" is VC-1 IIRC :) WMV3 (Windows Media Video 9) implements most of the VC-1 codec standards, just to give you a rough idea of what it is	Chilling_Silence (9)
513078	2007-01-06 07:59:00	Nice. And looking into my crystel ball, both formats will fail to reach mainstream sales. Agreed. If I were to speculate I would say that certain coming announcements regarding deals with major movie studios for the right to distribute movies over the net in HD which can then be stored on your hard drive will negate the need for either format to actually be required considering that hard drives are now averaging 160+ GB and 200GB or 250 GB is becoming the norm for desktops. Hitachi looks like they are about to bring out a 1 Terabyte HD possibly at the CES next week. Hi Speed internet is everywhere (except NZ). Just my 2cents.	winmacguy (3367)
513079	2007-01-06 08:13:00	Funny you should say that... I actually approached TelstraClear about that at the start of the year (Seeing what they thought about liasing with Movie companies and things, using certain compression to produce roughly 480p, then streaming them over the internet in a "Video store" kinda way), but they didnt like the idea and told me nobody would ever want it, but that people prefer to go hire a DVD that they can physically hold in their hand! I think that Microsoft have started just recently doing something similar with Xbox live... If only I'd kept that damn 'rejection' letter they sent to me, I would mail it back to them and rub it in! I agree totally, its the way of the future though that everythings going to be! Stream me my movies over the 'net!	Chilling_Silence (9)
513080	2007-01-06 08:22:00	Funny you should say that... I actually approached TelstraClear about that at the start of the year (Seeing what they thought about liasing with Movie companies and things, using certain compression to produce roughly 480p, then streaming them over the internet in a "Video store" kinda way), but they didnt like the idea and told me nobody would ever want it, but that people prefer to go hire a DVD that they can physically hold in their hand! I think that Microsoft have started just recently doing something similar with Xbox live... If only I'd kept that damn 'rejection' letter they sent to me, I would mail it back to them and rub it in! I agree totally, its the way of the future though that everythings going to be! Stream me my movies over the 'net! Maybe they need to get a hippy to run Telstra ;) Check out this link www.macobserver.com	winmacguy (3367)
513081	2007-01-06 08:25:00	The HD Drive connects via USB, so i would to assume it would beable to work on a windows based computer. The Price of the Drive also looks good, at $199USD, you could buy a 360 and the HD add on, and still be under the cost of a PS3.	noone (22)
513082	2007-01-06 08:28:00	Predictions for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) were made by HDTV Magazine on Friday. The predictions, not actual announcements, reflected a wide range of initiatives that all relate to Apple's initial foray into living room electronics. This is a high energy business and has oodles of competition. In most cases, Apple must follow instead of lead. Here they are. 1. The HD DVD camp will announce the addition of a supporting studio. This will put HD DVD on a better footing against Blu-ray - which Apple supports. 2. An HD DVD/Blu-ray combo player. Just when it appeared that Blu-ray might pull ahead thanks to the PS3, a player that plays all the formats, while very expensive, will make a decision on a next generation optical drive for a Mac Pro a lot tougher. 3. HDMI 1.3 Support. Perhaps Apple has been waiting for that standard themselves before they introduce new displays and ship the iTV. Apple must follow here instead of lead. 4. 1080p TVs. The Holy Grail of HDTV, HDTVs with 1080p input and 1080p displays will be everywhere. This will come to bear in the war of Internet-TV vs. the broadcast carriers as customers will come to expect high quality delivered content, as good as their HD players. 5. Wireless HDTV. The author of the predictions believes more and more people will want this. Apple believes it. Hewlett-Packard believes it. The race is on. 6. A New HDTV package from DirecTV. Oh, wait. Maybe DirecTV isn't out of the game after all. iTunes ... DirecTV ... iTunes ... DirecTV. I can't decide. Next week, with CES and Macworld concurrent, is going to be very, very exciting.	winmacguy (3367)
513083	2007-01-06 08:46:00	I know this but its an optional extra.. I shoulda clarified, my bad :P www.xbox.com Apparently it works with your PC also? ..if I could go internal that'd be ideal though. I was reading stats somewhere, and apparently in parts of the US theres 1 in every 5 homes with a HDTV?! NFI where that was from though, but I remember it coz I was like :O :O :O I found this High-Definition TVs are now in roughly 25 million U.S. homes www.tvpredictions.com I'll jump onboard when the local video store has switched focus to High Definition movies and we have free-to-air HD TV transmissions, Untill then I'll continue to be under-whelmed with the quality of the available content before I get bothered about its visual quality. You would think that seeing as how our TV networks are in a position where they can get the cream of all the media produced world wide we would have a constant diet of quality, informative entertaining television, Instead of the mindless (mostly american) dribble pumped into our homes in the hope that we may sit through a few commercials. Hell the worst thing about it is how bad the local content still is. Now we are getting the service upgraded so they can spend a couple of hundred million broadcasting repeats in digital, Madness. How do you fix a quality issue with a quantity???? I spit on TV.	Metla (12)
513084	2007-01-06 09:23:00	Keep an eye on either CES or MWSF next Wednesday for an update on online movie content distribution agreements.	winmacguy (3367)
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