Metal maniac It seems that

Metal maniac

It seems that every manufacturer has that standard party line that some discs are incompatible with some players and people just accept it. These incompatibilities should not exist. They exist because the standard allows for changes and deviations. In one way, its nice, but it forces obsolesense, screwing the consumer. It also means that firmware updates are the way of the future. So people may have bitched for years with no change, but we must continue to bitch and hopefully the lemmings of the world will hear the message and fight back. Thats what they get for buying a rental. Its true. Microsoft and Apple know this, thats why they push X-Boxes and iTunes so hard. No one wants physical media anymore, except for the hold-outs, but theyre still spinning vinyl and rolling in Super-8, they stopped factoring them in 1 there is no unskippable crap on the Avatar DVD, why? James cameron hates that stuff too. nope sorry. bluray has not matured as a format because it is not a dominant format. many people are still on dvddvd widescreen which offers a picture quality at least as good as what they get on ppv tv. dvd was quickly a format winner over vhs because it was so much better, bluray isnt getting the same uptake. bluray really is still in the early adopter phase. Its not the media companies fault. Yes, it certainly is. They are the only ones who force everyone to adopt their crap DRM schemes. These schemes are anti-consumer, but lame consumers arent smart or organized enough to be able to assert their wishes. The demand side of the free market is broken, and the supply side can run roughshod. Why would Hitachi put DRM into its hardware. It doesnt behoove them. And then a buyer of Hitachi has to pay for the DRM that they dont know they dont want. Whose fault is it that these machines are designed to NOT WORK in a variety of situations, some which occur by accident? It is the media companys fault. Their role is like that of a bully MPAA tricking a mentally handicapped person OEM, Denon to fire a gun at an unaware innocent victim consumer. You say not to blame the MPAA, they didnt do anything wrong. His point is he can download it and burn his own disk. The only real difference I can tell between blu-ray and dvd is the sound. Most blu-ray has some form of a DTS sound. Most dvdÁs have I have several dvdÁs with DTS sound and with an up scaling dvd player, there really is no difference between the two formats. Not one person I have metal maniac can tell the difference between the two. If I bought a moviealbum on VHScassette format, do I still own the rights to that songmovie? Does the purchase carry my ownership through all format changes? Oh, and IÁm waiting for a firmware update for my Sharp Blu Ray. What an argument over DVD v. Remember some people can still be using composite video from DVD TV. In which case BD will look that much better. Using HDMI with a up-converting DVD metal maniac will look a lot better because there is no Digital Analog Digital conversion going on. But you do have to keep a few things in mind when doing any comparison. This is a summary not a detailed write up. MPEG/2 v. Almost all older codecs are not near as efficient as H. This results in less quality for the encode.