damonrpayne

http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/11/netflix-picks-blu-ray-good-luck-renting-an-hd-dvd-soon/ http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/11/best-buys-pushing-blu-ray-to-the-front/ Yeouch.

I have a huge review pending, but it's a lot of work.

That's the most complete subwoofer pic I've seen yet, very nice.

Any of the WI people going?

All in all the promise of lower price hd-dvd media didn't carry much water: http://www.eproductwars.com/dvd/ Check out "average price". I believe they're about the same at Best Buy.

Hah! The model-view-presenter design pattern is more different than the model-view-controller than you realize. In addition to your comments about the life cycle of the domain model, the component who initializes an action must be considered! In the classical Smalltalk MVC pattern, the Controller actually fills the role of responding to user events, updating the model, and notifying zero or more Views that the model has changed. In the newer MVP way, we find that it's useful (in certain display technologies) to allow the View to initially respond to the user input and delegate action to the Presenter. This makes the assumption that every action initialized will have a view of some kind, whereas in the Model View Controller pattern there could be inputs that never make it to a view of any kind. If we're going to talk seperation of concerns for complex GUI interactions, let's stick to the point!

[6]It is a proven and universally accepted fact that you should go with solid state over tubes.[6]

I will check it out. If I had this to do over again I would only buy something with "on/off" and a remote control, since I never use the "dim" function. Still, with guests over it's neat to hit the remote to "ramp up the house lights".

... and my argument continues to be: #1 HD downloads are not viable now for 99.999% of the US populace, whereas 50% of the US populace DOES have an HDTV #2 HD downloads are inferior to the packaged product in every single aspect except maybe convienience, and that is debatable due to #1 #3 HD packaged media will continue to gain in market share, maturity, and more low cost options will present themselvesin far less time than it takes them to run fiber to my house Bandwidth WILL get there, but when and with what kind of HD product riding on it remains to be seen. To Anarchist's point, in terms of the high def optical disk format war, Blu-Ray has won. Start another thread entitled "Why HD downloads will kick everyone's ***" or something

How is this phase alteration accomplished?

I just listened to this: http://www.avrant.com/?p=230 The director of Audioholics, just back from CES, talking about how un-ready downloads are, how you are not getting the high definition experience.

HD Media is still in the early adopter phase. SD DVD still winning? So what? If the market share of HD optical media has not gained massively on SD DVD in another 1.5 years, I'll say "niche" To say that the content owners are "looking for alternate means of distribution" is an odd case to make. These are the Old Gaurd, the people who have fought innovation at every turn because it's a threat to their control over their content. The music companies have fought digital downloads every step of the way and only given in when the iPod etc. became a juggernaut. I think the times are chaning, but the luddite studio execs and the "not with it yet" consumers combined means a strong market for optical media for several years to come. Studios are looking to HD media to help shore up flagging DVD sales. High Def was 3% of DVD sales (# of units) in 2007; High Def disks cost quite a bit more than DVDs. To some degree, it's working for them, though not as much as they'd like I'm sure. Look, streaming downloads are great for watching on my laptop, it's not even tolerable for watching on my TV or Projector. People may not NEED quality all the time but they do want quality. Until there's fiber to everyone's house that can provide 50mb/s of audio+video there is a market for media: be it optical, SD cards, whatever.

http://www.klipschcorner.com/BlogDetail.aspx?guid=fe585879-48d2-4dfe-ba37-7d32d1b45cb1 I recently replaced my Aragon Stage One with an Integra 9.8 DTC preprocessor. My primary motivation for doing this was to play around with Audyssey in conjunction with my room treatments and do back to back comparisons between DVD Quality sound (DD @ 640kb/s or DTS @ 1.5mb/s) and High Definition audio from Blu-Ray discs. This Saturday I did my tests. Two of the pairs of ears I was most hoping for were not able to come so I had only three participants. We had five movies on both Blu-Ray and DVD, comparing: Cars Dolby Digital-EX vs. uncompressed PCM Pirates of the Carribiean: Curse of the Black Pearl Dolby Digital vs. uncompressed PCM Spider Man 2 DD vs. Dolby True HD Bram Stoker's Dracula Superbit DVD DTS-ES vs uncompressed PCM Black Hawk Down Superbit DVD Dolby Digital vs uncompressed PCM Person 1 chose the high bitrate sound (most of the PCM tracks were 4-5 mb/s) as sounding better 80% of the time. Person 2 chose the high bitrate sound as sounding better 60% of the time. Person 3 chose the high bitrate sound as sounding better 60% of the time. Person 3 was involved specifically because they do not own a hi-fi or home theater system. I learned a bit about doing this kind of testing and look forward to trying again with better technique and four more people. I was utterly blown away the first time I saw 1080p on the screen and was expecting the same revelation from high bitrate audio. Unlike my test subjects I had the advantage of being excrutiatingly familiar with how my home theater sounds, having spent 700 hours down there in the last year. For my part, I can say that high bitrate sound is better. It's just not 10x better. I would say so far that the sound is 5%-10% better. Stay tuned here for a more formal test...

As I've added/removed equipment my Lutron dimmer switch is now causing a noticable buzz in my speakers unless it's 100% off. Does anyone have any direct experience with a power conditioner by Fuhrman or Monster taking care of this issue? There also seems to be something I can get from Lutron to wire in with the switch to help. Thoughts?

As nearly as I can tell it sounds just as good as my Stage One for 2ch music.

Nothing wrong with being a "snob", many of us are perfectionists here.

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How close to the PS3 are you sitting?

Lionsgate has several 7.1 PCM titles out on Blu-Ray... "War" is one: http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=612

http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39935 Nice to see people posting things like that on other forums.

I think there was a narrow window for that idea to end the format war. When the universal players came out, they cost MORE than you could get 2 individual players for so the value proposition was not there.

It's more than you want to spend ($1600 msrp) but I just got the Integra 9.8 DTC and it is one nice Pre Amp.

http://www.hollywoodinhidef.com/blog_detail.php?id=164 Just food for thought! Until I have fiber in my home, I'm still liking the disks.

I've been out of town on business a lot lately and I'm super busy, but I made time to unbox my new toy, set it up, and take it for a tour. When I eventually do my formal review of this, the opening line will be "Some times people accidently get things more right than they should..." for the price, the company it comes from, it's features and performance, this is one sweet preprocessor.

It's just called "Downfall"