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Μάλλον ξενικάω νέο φαύλο κύκλο αντιπαραθέσεων, αλλά όφειλα να σας το μεταφέρω...
http://blog.homecinemachoice.com/page/homecinemachoice?entry=blu_ray_players_to_be
Blu-ray players to be obsolete by 2007
A sensationalist headline perhaps, but with the format only finally being standardised at the end of 2007, that could well be the reality for early adopters...
Hi-def buyers beware: current Blu-ray players will be rendered effectively obsolete by the end of the year. That’s the consequence of a much-delayed mandate by the governing Blu-ray disc association.
Although at first glance both Blu-ray and its rival HD DVD appear equally matched, there is a significant difference between the two. HD DVD machines have come to the market fully-formed, with a finalized specification and uniform compatibility; Blu-ray players are being sold with an unfinalised specification. And these differences are frustrating studios, particularly those trying to release comparable products on both high-def formats.
To resolve the situation, the Blu-ray Disc Association has mandated that all BD players going on sale after October 31 must conform to BD Profile 1.1 (aka the Final Standard profile) in order to offer fully-functioning BD-Java, bringing PIP interactivity for in-movie commentaries and special features.By standardizing Profile 1.1, Blu-ray chiefs hope to finally realise the undisputed potential of the system. The news will come too late for the format’s early adopters, but it will allow Hollywood to finally develop and release fully-interactive Blu-ray discs. Until now, these unrealised aspects of the Blu-ray specification have prevented BD titles from competing against more technologically-advanced HD DVD releases.
Profile 1.1 is seen as essential by Warner before it can release high-profile franchises like The Matrix and Batman on BD. Understandably, they want the user experience to be comparable, regardless of format. A couple of BD titles already apparently offer picture-in-picture functionality, but the makers of The Descent and Crank have cleverly deceived by actually storing two complete versions of each film on a 50GB disc, one with a PiP commentary burnt-in to the video and one without. At best, it’s a wasteful fudge of the format’s capacity. At worst it’s indicative of the smoke and mirrors approach used by Blu-ray’s advocates to challenge HD DVD.
So what’s the state of play with current BD hardware and what’s the upshot for current owners? Surprisingly, even the cerebrally-advanced PlayStation 3 is unable to offer full BD-Java (although this could possibly be enabled via firmware) and there’s certainly no dedicated player available to access BD Live (aka Profile 2) – the as yet un-realised online interactive option theoretically possible with the format.
Should movie studios begin shipping titles with advanced BD-Java functionality, existing kit would at best just miss out on all or some of the special feature trickery. The movie itself though, should at least play. Players like the Samsung BD-P1000 and Panasonic DMP-BD10A, both Profile 1 machines, can have their firmware updated via CD-ROM. However, this alone is not enough to elevate them to Profile 1.1.
Both manufacturers are being deliberately coy about revealing the amount of persistent storage (that’s to say, hard drive or flash memory) their current models have. When asked, Panasonic would only venture. ‘Sorry, but this (information) is not specified.’ Pioneer, which has its own Blu-ray player due in Europe this Summer, also declined to make any comment prior to a pan-European press conference due in May.
According to the Profile 1.1 specification, players need a minimum of 256MB of persistent memory storage to run BD-Java PIP, not to mention a secondary video decoder. To access BD Live, hardware needs not only Ethernet connectivity, but 1GB of memory, to store and buffer downloaded content. As yet, no hardware vendor has hinted at compliant equipment, although Sony’s PlayStation 3 would seem to have all the requisite processing muscle and storage to handle it, should firmware allow. In reality, mass-market BD Live-enabled Blu-ray players are at least a year away from reality and software maybe even more than that.
Με λίγα λόγια fuck όσους έχουν αποκτήσει μέχρι τώρα blu-ray, δίνοντας
1000+ €. Κορόδια....:mad_3:
http://blog.homecinemachoice.com/page/homecinemachoice?entry=blu_ray_players_to_be
Blu-ray players to be obsolete by 2007
A sensationalist headline perhaps, but with the format only finally being standardised at the end of 2007, that could well be the reality for early adopters...
Hi-def buyers beware: current Blu-ray players will be rendered effectively obsolete by the end of the year. That’s the consequence of a much-delayed mandate by the governing Blu-ray disc association.
Although at first glance both Blu-ray and its rival HD DVD appear equally matched, there is a significant difference between the two. HD DVD machines have come to the market fully-formed, with a finalized specification and uniform compatibility; Blu-ray players are being sold with an unfinalised specification. And these differences are frustrating studios, particularly those trying to release comparable products on both high-def formats.
To resolve the situation, the Blu-ray Disc Association has mandated that all BD players going on sale after October 31 must conform to BD Profile 1.1 (aka the Final Standard profile) in order to offer fully-functioning BD-Java, bringing PIP interactivity for in-movie commentaries and special features.By standardizing Profile 1.1, Blu-ray chiefs hope to finally realise the undisputed potential of the system. The news will come too late for the format’s early adopters, but it will allow Hollywood to finally develop and release fully-interactive Blu-ray discs. Until now, these unrealised aspects of the Blu-ray specification have prevented BD titles from competing against more technologically-advanced HD DVD releases.
Profile 1.1 is seen as essential by Warner before it can release high-profile franchises like The Matrix and Batman on BD. Understandably, they want the user experience to be comparable, regardless of format. A couple of BD titles already apparently offer picture-in-picture functionality, but the makers of The Descent and Crank have cleverly deceived by actually storing two complete versions of each film on a 50GB disc, one with a PiP commentary burnt-in to the video and one without. At best, it’s a wasteful fudge of the format’s capacity. At worst it’s indicative of the smoke and mirrors approach used by Blu-ray’s advocates to challenge HD DVD.
So what’s the state of play with current BD hardware and what’s the upshot for current owners? Surprisingly, even the cerebrally-advanced PlayStation 3 is unable to offer full BD-Java (although this could possibly be enabled via firmware) and there’s certainly no dedicated player available to access BD Live (aka Profile 2) – the as yet un-realised online interactive option theoretically possible with the format.
Should movie studios begin shipping titles with advanced BD-Java functionality, existing kit would at best just miss out on all or some of the special feature trickery. The movie itself though, should at least play. Players like the Samsung BD-P1000 and Panasonic DMP-BD10A, both Profile 1 machines, can have their firmware updated via CD-ROM. However, this alone is not enough to elevate them to Profile 1.1.
Both manufacturers are being deliberately coy about revealing the amount of persistent storage (that’s to say, hard drive or flash memory) their current models have. When asked, Panasonic would only venture. ‘Sorry, but this (information) is not specified.’ Pioneer, which has its own Blu-ray player due in Europe this Summer, also declined to make any comment prior to a pan-European press conference due in May.
According to the Profile 1.1 specification, players need a minimum of 256MB of persistent memory storage to run BD-Java PIP, not to mention a secondary video decoder. To access BD Live, hardware needs not only Ethernet connectivity, but 1GB of memory, to store and buffer downloaded content. As yet, no hardware vendor has hinted at compliant equipment, although Sony’s PlayStation 3 would seem to have all the requisite processing muscle and storage to handle it, should firmware allow. In reality, mass-market BD Live-enabled Blu-ray players are at least a year away from reality and software maybe even more than that.
Με λίγα λόγια fuck όσους έχουν αποκτήσει μέχρι τώρα blu-ray, δίνοντας
1000+ €. Κορόδια....:mad_3:
