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I guess I should be clear, I hate fanboys of both sides. Frankly, I think the DL cheerleaders are just selling out consumer rights. A future where we license everything and own nothing doesn't appeal to me. I usually read engadgetHD, joystiq, etc... and those forums are just full of trolls and lately the PS3/BD boys are out in force. It seems like it's impossible to have a calm discussion on the formats without it devolving into rhetoric and name calling. I guess I never looked into DVD/HD combo issues since I haven't had a problem with any of the discs I own... Granted, I only own 5 of them. 300 isn't one of them, so I can't confirm or deny any problems with playback on my 360 add-on drive. One of the comparisons I read was the afterdawn one, and that one doesn't have pictures. But the avsforum comparisons do: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=855440 In that thread, there's some pics comparing flags of our fathers and it looks even to me, some shots BD looks a tiny bit better and in some shots HD-DVD looks better. But considering the BD version is 12 gigs larger than the VC-1 encode, you can hardly call a 'draw' a 'win' by any means.

are you kidding? Tour Guide at a cultural history park. You could walk around with one of those over the shoulder loud speakers with a mic... "And over here we see human interface device common in the 21st century... we called it a "mouse". We would push it around on the table and there would be a pointer on the "screen" that was relative to the physical position of the mouse." Que disbelieving laughter from school children.

Before getting married and having a baby... yeah, sign me up. But now? I wouldn't miss this time with my family for anything. I've also wondered though... what if you had the gift of immortality but not of healing? So you get a stroke or something and you have to live out eternity stuck in your body?

Nah, I'm not sour over HD-DVD losing at all. I just get annoyed at blu-ray fanboys running around and proclaiming all the virtues of BD and then trying to turn it into a 360 versus PS3 flame war. The only advantage BD has over HD-DVD is in capacity, image quality and audio quality has been tossed back and forth and most people agree that there's very little real world difference and even then, it matters greatly on the quality of the encode. And POTC:DMC is hardly a beautiful transfer, there's plenty of gripes about the level of artifacting on that disc. There are also more than few comparisons of shows released on both blu-ray and HDVD, or with VC-1 encode versus AVC where the vc-1/HD-DVD disc wins for superior image quality. My only point was that increased bitrate/higher capacity is in no way a guarantee of superior image video or audio. Also, don't forget the combo HD-DVD/DVDs. These gave a very nice upgrade path.. you could upgrade your player and not have to rebuy that portion of your library. AFAIK, this option isn't available on BD. The only thing that bugs me, is that many of the movies I'm interested in are from Universal, so now I have to wait until the BD versions are announced. But I am hoping that the BD version of BSG fixes the video problems and resolves the manufacturing defects.

yeah.. who needs a more affordable, easier to manufacture, region free and spec finalized format when we can have get over priced players that can't play releases just a year later due to a format that's always changing, sloppy transfers on a bloated out-dated codec and 2 disc releases which completely negate the advantages of increased capacity. Yup, consumers really won this time.

your momma is killin me!

what does your momma even mean?

your momma is a tiny little cannon.

wow... look at those tiny little hands galvatron has! no wonder his canon is so big.

It makes sense that sharon would be staring at Roslyn though, doesn't she blame her for taking away their baby still?

that would be: God, just let it end already petition.

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So, Darkhorizons is reporting that Paramount AND universal are in talks to dump HD-DVD: end of the line And that once the transition is made, that the big hitters will be released in short order to be better entice consumers to take the plunge and leave the blurry world of DVDs behind them forever... left behind like a three legged pitbull at michael vick's house.

We should have a cage match between him and BoB.

wow, that's great news!

it's too bad the PS3 and 360 COD4 guys can't play against each other. could you imagine the sort of grudge matches we could be witness to?

Man, the movies I want to see are coming out on HD-DVD... and it's not until March that there's a blu-ray movie coming out I would even care about (michael clayton). oh, woops, michael clayton comes out in february. uhm.. yay?

It's still just a rumor. Paramount is still in the HD-DVD camp for now.... until they get better lawyers.

you guys are all deluding yourselves. When/if China de-couples the yuan from the dollar and pegs it to the Euro instead, the value of the Dollar is going to plummet. The only thing keeping various countries like China, Saudi Arabia (all of the OPEC countries actually), Japan, etc from doing so is that so far, the amount of dollars they own is still worth more than the benefits of switching currencies to the Euro. But if America continues on this economic decline, you can bet it will start happening.

... does the head of the yf-19 look a little off to anyone else?

pretty cool, looks like Batgirl (cassandra cain) the movie to me.

Yup, I bet we'll get a scene right out of evangelion.

the point of a variable mode toy....?

It's all up to universal.

Well, i think Macross 7 was an attempt by the creators to return the understated premise behind SDF:M, in that it was meant as a parody of the type of shows of the time. Macross 7 clearly pokes fun at some of the bigger shows of the 90's but I think the old school fans really ignored that aspect of the show and embraced it more for the "real mecha" aspect of it. I think Macross Zero was an attempt to take the elements that old school fans reacted strongly against and try to retcon it so that it fit in more with the mood and tone established by SDFM and DYRL and M:F is just continuing that.