X-bit labs

Started by: crisp | Date 09/25/07

Comments: 7 | Last Comment:  09/28/07

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1. I'm not buying in till its open enough to work on my home cinema kit without deliberately degrading the signal.

Kits never have and never will provide high quality content. They get you started, but that is about it. If you have crappy setup, then stop complaining.

Using 1080i on plasmas that are usually 720p will never display 1080i. Spend on DLP with white led or even better CRT screens. CRT screens works better with interlace content than any digital display. CRT screens are analog, so they can show infinite amounts of colors.

when i said 'kit' i meant my equipment, i didn't buy it as a kit and its pritty good stuff, my display IS analogue which is prescisly why the signal is INTENTIONALY downgraded.. Its not bad equipment, the signal is delibrately made poor on all analogue outputs to prevent copying of the content... do some research on their DRM technology if you don't believe me!

You guys are idiots. Learn more about HD before you spew garbage.

Morons. There is no degrading of the signal going on. Set the resolution of your "kit" to its native format. If that format is 1080i, then set it at 1080i. There is no signal degrading going on. Your analog component out is a very high quality signal comparable to HDMI. The flag you are talk about but don't have the language skills to express will downgrade analog signals to 540p. But, this is not enabled and won't be enabled until at least 2010. Even then there is little actual talk about enabling it.

2. The analyst are dead wrong. The format war will go on forever unless a new format is developed and that every studio can agree on. Directors usually pick the cheapest format. Though the choice between Sony monopolies the HD market or a community that is similar to DVD Forum creates a HD disc format that is superior to both Blue-ray and HD DVD and it is backwards compatible with no DRM and no HDCP.

DVD Forum's HD DVD format is open enough but the data capacity needs to be at least two times larger than it is now. If HD DVD is four times more data capacity, it will have a better edge.

HVD FTW

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