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Found this at Best Buy-a Samsung Blue Ray HD disc player-Works well with the component video in on my Hitachi RPTV.The pictures almost look so real you can look into charactors eyes!esp spooky.Fine print on objects the chractors are holding or using can be read.And the sound is so much better-uncompressed digital sorround-sounds more real as well.Movie theaters had better watch out-now you can get better sound at home-and almost as good a picture!

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Blu-ray vs HD-DVD

So which will become the standard? I personally want both because the one that loses will become obsolete and that means "Collectors item".
 
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I will not buy either until the price comes down to a more reasonable level. You can buy a DVD player for less than $100, and they were way up there when they first came out.

HDTV has been on the market since 1998, but I just bought one. I waited until I could get one with a built in tuner, the separate tuners are $300 to $500. With the tuner you can get over the air broadcasts which are better quality than the cable or dish feeds. In my area most stations broadcast two or four digital stations, only one will be available on cable or dish.

I purchased the Sony KD-34XBR970 Tube set. I realize that this is a small picture but the tube currently has the best picture. Besides it still is a TV, it's in my cabinet and I just don't want a giant thing in my house.

Of course you need the HDTV to utilize either bluray or HDDvd system. So I'll wait until the winner is apparent and much, much cheaper.
 
I have a Samsung HDTV and it doesn't have HDMI so even up-converting DVD players won't work. BUT the TV upconverts anyway so a DVD player with component video and progressive scan will work fine. I'd rather spend the money on a VHS/DVD record to dub VHS tapes.

I'll wait for the next bath of HD-DVD players to come out with the glitches fixed.
 
Both the BluRay machine and HD would be nice-might get the HD machine when its on sale.BluRay has more supporters from equipment builders and movie studios-would bet BluRay could be the winner.The capacity of the Blu Ray disc is greater.It can have twice the recording time the HD disc has.both use blue light lasers.the focus size and recording distance into the disc layers is diffrent between the two.that explains why the discs aren't interchangeable.I still have my first DVD player--its a Laser disc and DVD in one machine-use it for laser discs.It cost more than the BluRay machine I just got.Yes the performance is even better thru the HDMI connections-my TV doesn't have HDMI.I would also guess that first generation DVD machines or HD disc machines could be collectable to some.The machine I have can use standard video,Component video,or HDMI.If you use standard video-won't be High Def.I just wanted to see hi def programming on my HD TV-now I have it-and can watch whenever I want.Yes in theaters the pictuires can be better and same with the sound-With these machines theaters are going to have to strive for better quality-well when you think of it--most folks that go to theaters are not audiovideophiles anyway-they are happy to see a picture and hear sound-just like at home.I would like to see many theaters try harder.The sound system I have at home was better than what the BB people were demoing thair machine with-just the speakers in their TV!!Beleive me it will sound better thru a good home sound-hi-fi system.
 
Most theaters have either too loud and not enough quality sound. They use PA type amplifiers and speakers. Not the most perfect sound. The 24fps film picture cannot be beat. It's pure analog optical imaging. From the camera eye to the film to your eye. No "conversion" is needed (unless it's a digital source), no interlacing. HD and Blue-ray is a major step towards putting the THEATER into home theater.

But I love the theater, especially the old movie houses and drive-ins (now THAT's a big screen). Two of the BEST drivins are Shakweiller's in PA and Tri-Town (I think that's the name) in New Hampshire.
 
I went to the movies last Tuesday night (alone) for the first time since Titanic came out. I was bored to death and saw that the Da Vinci Code was playing at 1030pm so off I went. It was way too loud for me coupled with the tiny cine-plex theatre. Since it was Tuesday the ticket was $9 but my medium popcorn and medium Coke cost me $11.
 
I can agree film is an excellent and perfected medium.I do have a portable 35MM projector-Holmes model#8-but I need a soundhead power supply and preamp for it.I would also have to modify its sound pickup for the new "cyan" film analog soundtracks-I have heard of folks putting digital soundheads in Holmes portable projectors-And film is not hampered by "pixles" either-the resolution of film is considered (35MM)6 times that of the best digital mediums.but the intensive film libraries now available gives the HD broadcasters and disc mastering studios LOTS of material to work with-TV stations--Dust off that old film chain and upgrade it with an HD camera system.The 24FPS to 30FPS(TV) could now be done electronically(Digital "Pulldown"done with DVD's today) rather than with a special TV projector-for TV engineers-the "Every other frame shown twice" conversion.Film projectors for TV esp 35MM resembled standard movie house machines-but the intermittents and shutter mechaanisms were diffrent.I have seen many 16MMand 35MM machines in TV stations.Also the lamphouses were smaller on TV projectors-had smaller projection lamps since the projector didn't have to fill a large screen like in a theater.Just had to project into a mirror or prism system in the station "film chain"that had one or more film projectors-say 16Mm,35MM,and 35MM slide projectors-used the same sort of slides you had at home.the prism or mirror "switch" would set the desired projector to be aired to project into a modified studio color camera.then the video signal from the camera could be broadcast or recorded-same with the sound from the projector soundhead-went to the station audio switching system to be aired, recorded,etc.I think the new HD disc mediums-both of them just may encourage both Hollywood and the movie theaters to improve-now if we can do something about those dorks that keep using their cellphones in the auditorium-they don't pay attention to the slides shown on the theater screen asking them to shut their phones off.And the blabbing teenagers that want to "edit" the film in the theater-thus making it harder for paying folks to watch-those aftormentioned types seem to think they are watching tV at home.and movie theater please stock a wider selection of candies--Necchos,Sweet tarts,jawbreakers,etc.You just have to eat those while watching movies at the theater.
 
Glenn:-oh yes would love to see the pictures of your theater equipment--i love looking at the "theater tours" on the Film Tech website-I don't know if you have looked that one up-would think you would be interested in it.At the workplace I work at I run shows using short wave transmitters-the audience would be a thousand or more miles away-I have always wondered about the projectionist at the theater-his audience is in the next room-possiblility for interaction in his case.I especially LOVE vintage theater and radio station equipment.Mass entertainment equipment--"appliances" is fascinating to me.Transmitters,projectors,etc.I have tried to link to Film Tech before but couldn't get it to work.also goes under Brad Miller Associates.they make "Filmguard" a product to clean and lubricate films before playback.I would love to have a collection of radio and theater gear-but the apparatus is too big to put in the home--much less run it.Esp the transmitters-you need three phase power for those and some projectors as well.Rotoverter time!
 

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