[Chris Hornbeck]

On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 21:37:51 -0500, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:

I wonder if the powers that be have figured out that the format that has the
first economical writer will have an advantage with many consumers.

Bingo. Also, anybody wishing to be competitive selling players
a year away will need a player capable of *both* formats.

If you're bound and determined to be an early adopter, you
might want to be sure that your player will gracefully
output at "24p", meaning film's native frame rate without
a "3/2 pulldown", the timebase translation from film frame rate
to video frame rate. And that your display device can
both accept that and display it at an integral multiple
of frame rate.

The latest and greatest players and display devices can
transfer at film rate natively and display at integral
multiples of 24 frames per second (Hz to us). Note also
that "1080P" is advertizing copy for a 1920x1080 pixel
array, and that advertized ability to display "1080P"
is unrelated to *anything* really interesting.

Short answer: film buffs might want to ask a *lot* of questions
when designing A/V rooms. The audio is pretty mature, but
digital video is currently about like audio was in 1960.



Thanks, as always,

Chris Hornbeck