User:Skefer

Film should have about 10 mega-pixels, but in actuality most films probably top out at doing 3 to 4 megapixels after all the post processing. Lets not even discuss the high definition in cheap theaters. Home theaters are offering better quality these days than the projection theaters. Pixels aside, many people can not really see the difference between 1 mega-pixel or 720 and 2 mega-pixel or 1020, but they probably can see the differences in streaming motion where catches are obvious, which is why FOX chose 720p at 60 frames per second for its standard, which while less than ideal for movies, should be superior for sports. If Blu-Ray offered a true 1080p at 60 frames per second, and an enhanced reality experience similar to the 60 frames per second of IMAX theaters and released dozens of IMAX movies from the available IMAX library quickly then they just might capture the audience needed to survive. In the longer running movies look even better for Blu-Ray, not so much for the retail sale of Hollywood produced movies, but instead for being used as as a storage medium for downloadable high definition content. Systems coming in the future look to be able to offer much more storage than any previous format offered. I am personally pulling for Blu-Ray and plan on buying as soon as I find an affordable player that also records disks for me. This is not really too much to ask as a good computer and video board can do all the heavy lifting on decoding and creating a picture from the bit stream. Stand alone players will probably be introduced at quite a high price. There is a dark side to both high definition DVD and Blu-Ray. Their content protection measures will require a special HDMI connector to be viewable with your high definition monitor or else be auto down converted to 480p which is truly unacceptable with a system like most people have. Component video can be captured and re-encoded, which is why the movie studios want to plug this hole, but given that they are reasonably easy to work around and available to the tech savvy, I do not see what they are doing other than putting off their potential buyers as well as giving a motivation for people who might not have been tempted to pirate media in the past. HD DVDS