http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/...HD-BDPS1_Bluray_Disc

It is probably better than anything we have so far.

Do you work for Sony?!

quote:

Originally posted by SimonJ:
Do you work for Sony?!

You'll be first in the queue Simon. Admit it.

I certainly wouldn't mind seeing one of these things. Are there any films available yet?

When I bought my first DVD player there weren't any over here and so I had to watch the Wallace and Gromit and Queen DVD that came free with it until I got bored. I finally got the guts up to try a multi region trick I read in a magazine. I took the lid off the player and cut one of the legs off one of the chips inside it to make it multi-region and finally bought some disks from the US! It worked a treat for about a year, until they invented RCE disks and then I had to solder the leg back on the chip and by a multi region chip and stick that in it instead. Those were the days....

Do you want to get rid of your outdated DVD5 ??

Anybody want to sell me their now outdated DVD5 for (say) £250 before the summer rush knocks the bottom out of the market...........

Cheers

Don

Don,

I certainly DON'T.

We are in for ANOTHER format war.

I wouldn't be surprised to see HD fail in Europe. I am yet to be convinced that the mass market will see a compelling reason to sell all their DVDs and re-stock with yet ANOTHER format.

Perhaps there is more reason for Sky viewers et al.....but I don't watch TV.

Not only is the DVD5 bloody good - but I've just started burning DVDAs myself. Now there is something you can't do with SACD; another reason I bought the DVD5!

Martin

quote:

Originally posted by SimonJ:
Do you work for Sony?!

Is Sony an anagram of Bryston?

quote:

Originally posted by Tuan:
It is probably better than anything we have so far.

That'll be because - "Targeted Availability: On or About August 15, 2006"

Now...there's a thought, a Sony DVD, into a nice big Bryston 5 channel amp

Roy.

....and of course Sony, and their nice dealerships, won't lend you a box to dem.

They will let you listen to it through a comparitor in store and......

quote:

Originally posted by Mr Underhill:
... I've just started burning DVDAs myself. Now there is something you can't do with SACD ...

You can if the fire is hot enough!

quote:

Originally posted by ROTF:

quote:

Originally posted by Mr Underhill:
... I've just started burning DVDAs myself. Now there is something you can't do with SACD ...

You can if the fire is hot enough!

quote:

Originally posted by Mr Underhill:
....and of course Sony, and their nice dealerships, won't lend you a box to dem.

They will let you listen to it through a comparitor in store and......

...and LOTR movie will look so good, like you are actually live the life of Mr Underhill (Frodo)

Correct me if I'm wrong Tuan, but LOTR is going to be a HD-DVD release.

Amazon's upcoming HD-DVD releases

Amazon's upcoming Blu-ray releases

Allan

quote:

Originally posted by Allan Probin:
Correct me if I'm wrong Tuan, but LOTR is going to be a HD-DVD release.

Amazon's upcoming HD-DVD releases

Amazon's upcoming Blu-ray releases

Allan

The Sony has upscaling to 1080p for normal DVD. My humble Sony DVD has it too and the LOTR movies look stunning on my 40" Sony KDL-40XBR1 LCD. Sony technology works.

Tuan,

Your last post appears to contradict your first post?

Allan

quote:

Sony technology works.

Sure does: Betamax; MiniDisc; and some lovely bespoke lossy audio compression algorithms...oh, and I hear they do a great line in root kits!

quote:

Originally posted by Allan Probin:
Tuan,

Your last post appears to contradict your first post?

Allan

No Allan. It has both features: the new high definition DVD play back and backward compability with standard DVD using upscaling technology to 1080p resolution, the thing that our Naim members with the DVD5 are all crying for

Taken from an opinion by an expert on the launch of a Pioneer 50 in true HD plasma linked to it's Blu-ray player:
"It looked stunning in trur HD with sharp detail good contrast BUT two things became apparent. The master display showing Blu Ray content looked overly saturated, so when a trailer for "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory" was shown the color looked almost toxic. This is due to a lack of color information in the Blu ray content to set the display. With the very high resolution HD can offer any lack of subtlety in color detail becomes apparent and is not helped by current displays that have color saturation wound up far higher than they should. Using the outmoded current 4:2:0 color encoding will not cut the mustard for Blu-ray etc."

I think I'll wait thank you very much. Anyway I hate SONY (don't ask why it would take to long to explain)

Why, Geoff?

(I have all afternoon)