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Posted - Apr 9 2004 : 1:08PM
Is anyone aware of any specific DVDs that were released in HD format from mainstream? My understanding is that in porn, so far, even though there have been a handful of movies shot on HD, they were released in standard signal picture.
Are there any mainstream DVDs that were shot in HD and also released in HD signal picture? Or even ones that were shot on film or normal signal picture and then bumped up to HD signal for a new DVD release? Anything... movies, nature DVDs...
We just got a HD projection system and want to try some sample stuff.
i'm not sure - i thought the Superbit DVDs are HD?
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No the superbit DVDs simply use a higher bitrate. This means that it has better motion translation... less artifacting, etc, but they are not in the HD format.
what about D-VHS? although with that you'd need a D-VHS player as well
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I'm not aware of any either. The only one that comes close is Artisan's Terminator 2: eXtreme Edition. And the HD version on that one is only playable on a Windows PC. The industry has competing formats, including the BluRay format that requires a new player, and others that would use the current laser plus some sort of different compression scheme (Microsoft's plan falls into this camp). In either case, it's doubtful that current DVD players will support HD content.
In other words, we're in for a Betamax vs. VHS/DCC vs. MiniDisc/Divx vs. DVD/DVD+R vs. DVD-R battle for the HD-DVD format.
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Patience is a virtue, but who wants to be virtuous? 4283 Posts 4/00
Posted - Apr 9 2004 : 7:06PM
Thanks - I had heard one of the Terminators was supposedly released in HD DVD, but couldn't remember if it was 2 or 3.
Ingenmann - thank you very much. I will check out those other two also.
Saki - there are currently no consumer settop HD-capable DVD players. I have a PC with Windows Media Player 9 hooked into a HD projection system. There are supposedly going to be a few HD DVD players with Windows Media Player 9 built into them shown at NAB this year, but each one will have a different format. I swear, the media industry needs to get it's shit together and realize that more people will take a chance on buying something if they're not afraid it's going to turn out to be the next Betamax or Divx.
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Posted - Apr 9 2004 : 7:22PM
Yeah it looks like microsoft is going to be it from the looks of it. update An industry standards group has made a preliminary decision to include Microsoft's video compression technology in a next-generation DVD format, giving the company a key boost in the digital media arena.
The steering committee for the DVD Forum on Friday announced provisional approval for Microsoft's VC-9 and two other video technologies--H.264 and MPEG-2--as mandatory for the HD-DVD video specification for playback devices. VC-9 is the reference title for the underlying video decoding technology within Windows Media Video 9. The approval is subject to several conditions, including an update in 60 days of licensing terms and conditions. And I've had the T2 HD dvd for a while and it's supersharp on my 20 inch monitor and I could only image what that it'd still be quite sharp on a large HD-tv using component inputs. Only thing iritating about this dvd is that you need to use the dvd player it came with since it using that to contact the internet to do who knows what?
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Posted - Apr 9 2004 : 11:12PM
Yeah I figured it had something to do with DRM. It really pissed me off since I was in the middle of the ocean with no way to connect to the internet when this happened to me. I was trying to watch it on my laptop for the first time and hadn't thought of seeing if it worked before I left and so had to wait to reach land before I could watch it. Luckily I had plenty of other dvd's to watch.
I actually bought a factory refurbished JVC D-VHS recorder for $199 last year from e-cost.com (I was looking to replace a S-VHS machine and this was both better & cheaper than any S-VHS machine available at the time). I haven't bought any D-VHS tapes yet.
You're right. Ingenmann pointed to the titles that I was talking about. However, even though they were shot in HD, they haven't been distributed in HD.
I have to believe that Blue-Ray is going to win over Microsoft on this one. I'd much rather see a hardware solution over an enhanced compression/decompression scheme.
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Posted - Apr 9 2004 : 1:08PM