Brandon Wirtz and Jake Ludington of XYHD.tv did a thorough test between the quality of HD from the Xbox Live marketplace and from that of a HD DVD by comparing two clips. Surprisingly they concluded that there was no noticeable difference if you don't have a 1080p TV that's been correctly calibrated. This is despite the fact that the Xbox Live WMV encoded video has 720p/1080i and only 6.5 Megabits per second (VBR) compared to a potential of 1080p and 36.55 Megabits per second on HD DVD. It looks like HD DVD over the internet has potential after all despite the problems with sending such a big file over the internet. Either way high density video is the big thing at the moment and even semi professional producers should think about filming content in HD.
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1. I think downloadable HD is going to change the battle between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. It will become like iTunes and the iTunes generation will help make it popular.
I understand that some people enjoy having a physical case to look at, but I think that can change with time.
Imagine when you move you won't have to pack up all those movies. Lets just hope MS changes their game plan and start allowing movies for purchase instead of rental.
Posted at 9:07AM on Dec 17th 2006 by Joshua