A Discussion About HD Video Disc Formats. Presented in Glorious Adium Transcript-O-Vision!

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    <span class="time" style="font-size: 90%; color: gray">22:39:43</span>
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    <span>Costco had an instant $100 rebate on one of the Toshiba HD-DVD players, so I picked it up, along with a Jet Li movie. That was my "Father's Day" gift from everyone.</span>
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    <span class="time" style="font-size: 90%; color: gray">22:40:00</span>
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    <span>Oh, crap.</span>
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    <span class="time" style="font-size: 90%; color: gray">22:40:09</span>
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    <span>I just realized I don't think I called my Dad.</span>
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    <span class="time" style="font-size: 90%; color: gray">22:40:20</span>
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    <span>Heh.</span>
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    <span class="time" style="font-size: 90%; color: gray">22:40:24</span>
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    <span>I called mine but didn't reach him.</span>
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    <span class="time" style="font-size: 90%; color: gray">22:40:31</span>
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    <span>I probably should try again this week.</span>
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    <span class="time" style="font-size: 90%; color: gray">22:40:42</span>
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    <span>Blockbuster picked a horse as well... it was the one you didn't pick.</span>
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    <span>Well, that's fine, since I don't go to Blockbuster. :P</span>
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    <span>Yes, but a lot of people do.  Don't you think that might affect the ultimate outcome of this thing?</span>
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    <span class="time" style="font-size: 90%; color: gray">22:41:26</span>
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    <span>Maybe so.</span>
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    <span>Blu-ray has a lot of technological advances, but HD-DVD has the advantage of having better backwards compatibility-- not jsut for playback, but also for manufacturing. You can convert a current DVD plant to make HD-DVDs without too much fuss, whereas BD requires a whole new plant.</span>
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    <span>Well, you know my thoughts... still way too early for me to worry about it all.  But I hope you chose wisely.</span>
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    <span>I think neither of them will live very long. They won't reach DVD's age before they start getting replaced with something else. Still, I wanted to play with at least one of 'em so I could speak intelligently about it.</span>
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    <span>Heh.</span>
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    <span>I bet you end up getting BR as well, so you can speak intelligently about both of them. ;)</span>
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    <span>Watched the first disc on it last night, and it crapped out 3/4 into the movie. Decided it couldn't play the disc. Even after I pulled it out, I didn't see anything wrong with the surface, but cleaned it anyway and popped it back in, then it insisted it wasn't a HD-DVD disc at all.</span>
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    <span>Weird.</span>
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    <span>Fortunately, it was a hybrid disc so we flipped it over and watched the rest in standard def.</span>
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    <span>So, gotta get another disc to figure out if it's the player or the disc.</span>
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    <span>Hope it's not the player. I think I got the last one at our Costco.</span>
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    <span>Ugh, yeah.</span>
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    <span>Picture quality was good while it lasted, tho. Very clean. Didn't see any of the compression artifacts I notice on the HD cable feed.</span>
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