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    RF-83's and RC-64 in the house.

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    Great speakers aside...I really like your black doors!!

    I painted my lower level "Man Cave" doors black by hand......Hah...what fun!! The door to my furnace room is what you would call shutttered...so to speak. The backside looks quite interesting now from the back.......LOL It's all good...cuz can only see the backside from inside the furnace room[;)]

    My HT setup

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    Very sweet mancave!!

    Nice homage to "The Intimadator" too.

    As someone else said, something less reflective than white paint would be better for theater purposes because of light reflection. With less reflective paint, the walls will completely vanish during movie time[:D]

    Fantastic space!!

    BluRay: Studios Benefit Not Consumers

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    I don't care about the streaming pipe dreams that many techies see in our distant future. For now....I'm looking forward to buying the "Cloverfield" blu-ray in the very near future[H]

    Anyone who seriesly thinks we'll be quickly/conveniently be downloading FULL BANDWIDTH HD-movies anytime soon in the comfort of our homes..........needs to put down crack pipe.

    50gigs is an awful big file to download to watch a single movie.

    anyone using some older 70's and 80's high dollar speakers as their mains?

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    This isn't a knock against classic JBL's, but I don't subscribe to the logic that because something was expensive 30 years ago, that it equates to quality by todays standards. Afterall...... in the 1970's.............. a VCR cost $1,500!

    'Rocking out' in 2 channel mode is the primary purpose those speakers are best suited, and yes.... I've heard good things about those old JBL's!!

    On the other hand, you'd be much better off with a matched set of speakers for multi-channel theater surround. A mismatched Frankenstein setup used for HT-surround will perform poorly..........regardless of the quality of the individual mismatched pieces thrown together.

    BluRay: Studios Benefit Not Consumers

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    This thread is funny in a pathetic sad kind of way. I see there are a few posting messages while suffereng from a case of bitter-blu derangement syndrome.

    Get over it already..... if you don't like it......just stick with DVD and enjoy watching day/date new releases in low definition. Afterall, 480p looks good enough anyway, right? LOL

    Now it's finally the Death of HD- Per Walmart...........?

    in Home Theater

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    Thump - I was actually thinking that once/if Toshiba makes the announcement that we could expect to see BR players go UP in price, not down... at least for a little while - so there can be a little bit of recouping of losses from the format battle. Of course once more manufacturers start jumping in with BR decks as a result of the "market decision" - that will bring prices back down, but as the competion was between formats and not so much brands on same format - there is nothing keeping those prices down once Toshi pulls the plug.

    You got it half right.....

    No real large scale adoption can begin until HD-DVD throws in the towel. Right now there are more than a dozen BD player manufacturers and that number is increasing on a weekly basis. Most have been sitting on the sidelines waiting for an outcome, but now they'll be entering the market by the bunches. BD will now focus on chipping away at DVD demand, and as more manufacturers enter the fray.........the market will mature at a much quicker rate!!

    I have been very impressed by the efficiency of this format war compared to those in the past. Considering this format war is less than 2 years old........they've evolved well beyond the point of both VCR and DVD and where they were at this point after initial launch.

    Very soon, expect the last 2 studio holdouts to announce blu......and when that happens.....blu-evolution will hit hyper drive.

    Now it's finally the Death of HD- Per Walmart...........?

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    Not exactly the consumer or end user that decides on what gets adopted, as it seemed to be with VHS-Beta, it's the retailer. Or in this case, the largest retailer in the world.

    Just exactly how do you think retailers decide which products get shelf space? It's consumer demand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Retailers will only stock product that maximizes their sales.

    What you are witnessing is the perfect example of market demand at work and how these forces determine which products are awarded such valuable shelf space. HD-DVD has been getting destroyed both in sales ### and $$$, and it was only a matter of time before retailers reallocated their shelf space accordingly. The customer HAS SPOKEN, and what you're seeing is the retail response to those demands.

    Toshiba to scrap HD-DVD

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    The fire sales have been going on for a month now. Expect more as Toshiba cuts their losses as they clear their inventories.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSL1637974620080216

    TOKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp (6502.T: Quote, Profile, Research)
    is planning to give up on its HD DVD format for high-definition video,
    conceding defeat to the competing Blu-Ray technology backed by Sony
    Corp (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research), a company source said on Saturday.




    Japanese public broadcaster NHK had earlier reported that Toshiba
    would suffer losses in the tens of billions of yen (hundreds of
    millions of dollars) as it scrapped production of HD DVD players and
    recorders and took other steps to exit the business.




    The company source told Reuters that Toshiba was in the final stages
    of planning to exit the HD DVD business and that an official decision
    would be made soon.

    Has Blu-Ray won?

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    I can tell by your posts that you are a 'non-adopter' who is completely ignorant on the subject. If you had meaningful first hand experience with the subject, you'd see how really silly and factually incorrect your statements really are.........

    Your post read like the classic example of an "Internet Expert"....... one who spends large amounts of time reading internet blogs so they think they've become the expert without any meaningful first hand experience on the subject. You'll believe and say anything to rationalize why you continue to cling to watching the inferior PQ delivered by DVDs.

    If you prefer vastly inferior technology, then you go right ahead and enjoy...... but stop spreading ignorant falshoods to make excuses for your inferior low-def reality and it's deficiencies. As someone who has significant first hand experience on the subject, I can easily see error in your statements.

    Has Blu-Ray won?

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    Most 35mm film images from the late 1970s on, even after several generations (e.g. camera film or negative, internegative, printing master, print etc.) should have higher resolution that any digital format available in the home, unless the film has been abused, or softened for artistic effect.

    - Even films of the 1950s, if photographed on an especially large negative (e.g., 65mm), and printed in 70mm, would have higher resolution than HDDVD or BluRay,

    Very well stated.... and very true. I wish I had seen your post before making my own reply on this subject, because it would have saved me the effort of making a large post.

    LOL

    Has Blu-Ray won?

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    If the source movie is fuzzed up or degraded for whatever reason, it will be fuzzed up and degraded on HD/BR as well.

    Unless of course they have been cleaned up. Examples include Blade Runner and of course what Lucas did to the holy trilogy some 10 years back. However - you are right about a lot of the titles being released on both BR and HDDVD... they are simply upscaled versions of what you have already on DVD. If it wasn't shot with hidef cameras, or thoroughly re-processed for HD... you would actually be better off keeping your SD copies, and playing them in an HD/BR deck, using it's upscaler or the one in your display. Of course - this only makes sense if you have the anamorphic widescreen version. Unfortunately about 70% of the BR/HD stuff currently in print will not look any better than popping in your SD copy and letting the scaler do the work, and thereby there is no justification for purchasing a BR/HD copy at this time.

    Now - of course newer films and shows actually shot with HD cameras will look loads better than their released SD counterparts.

    LOL

    Case in point..... You couldn't be any further from the truth. So long as it makes you feel better while you're watching low definition[;)]

    Has Blu-Ray won?

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    35mm film has resolution limits capable of pushing well beyond 4k. It's not the film that is at fault but rather......it's the tranfer. Keep in mind, we're comingling the analog world with digital so there is no exact pixel limit to 35mm film because technically speaking.....film doesn't have pixels. With that said, 35mm film converted to digital has enough detail to contain up to 20 million "quality" pixels
    in a single top-quality 35mm shot!!! The image capturing ability
    of 35mm is many times greater than video.     If you think 50gig blu-rays are big files, just imagine how large a movie file would be at that resolution!!! Unfortunately, no home televisions are capable of displaying anywhere near that much detail. Maybe sometime in the distant future, most of us will be watching TV with 8098p Displays. Of course, there will be a few lagging behind in denial while proclaiming they cant see any difference between 8098p and 1080p.[;)]

    The old classics are capable of looking every bit as good as the new releases if only they put the time and effort into the transfer process. Just look at how great the newly remastered Blade Runner looks if you want to see the true potential of how good an older movie can look in HD!! While it's true that a some of the old classics don't look quite as crisp as some new blu-ray releases, you're kidding yourself if you think any low-def movie PQ looks anywhere remotely near as good as high definition. Those are words of denial.

    IMO.... several of the posts in this thread read like those who've never owned a HD/BD player of any kind, and they're trying to rationalize to themselves to gain comfort for their decision to lag behind and for continuing to live in the land of low definition.

    my 2 cents....

    Has Blu-Ray won?

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    "Yet even on regular DVD's when you go to the special features there is somethimes dramatically enhanced sharpness and qualty on the latter relative to the main film." Ergo, the point is not whether HD/BR DVD's are better than cable so-called HDTV. They undoubteldly are. But HD/BR DVD's can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. If the source movie is fuzzed up or degraded for whatever reason, it will be fuzzed up and degraded on HD/BR as well. My lament is not with the HDTV technology per se. It is with Hollywood's poor quality source material.

    Some movies might be filmed in a dark dreary grainy manner, but I can't really think of any movies that are soft and 'fuzzed up' as you put it. Cable TV.........yes it definitely happens, but that's not what I see with high definition movies.
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