since when has watching TV and movies at a sharper resolution been that important?
DVD video compression is horrible. The artifacts are very noticeable, especially on DVDs like 28 Days Later, which had a longish film with lots of bonus features and footage squeezed onto a single disc, necessitating a higher compression ratio. It prolly didn't help in that specific case that the movie had lots of dark (which encourages artifacts) and was shot on low grade digital.
That said, I don't watch enough movies to care enough to upgrade to Bluray.
The response here is to just not buy that technology, not to become self-righteous about the DRM.
From skimming the articles about it, they did not disclose that they added HDCP to the new MacBooks nor do they disclose the restriction looking at the Hellboy 2 (the example movie) in the iTunes store. As someone who does show movies on projectors from time to time, I'd be pretty irritated if I lost the ability to do so with no disclosure.
Also, there's nothing wrong with not buying something and complaining about it. That's part of why iTunes now sells unprotected versions (of some songs) rather than just DRM laden files. Feedback and discussion drive the future.
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Date: 2008-11-20 09:39 pm (UTC)Read also many projectors.
since when has watching TV and movies at a sharper resolution been that important?
DVD video compression is horrible. The artifacts are very noticeable, especially on DVDs like 28 Days Later, which had a longish film with lots of bonus features and footage squeezed onto a single disc, necessitating a higher compression ratio. It prolly didn't help in that specific case that the movie had lots of dark (which encourages artifacts) and was shot on low grade digital.
That said, I don't watch enough movies to care enough to upgrade to Bluray.
The response here is to just not buy that technology, not to become self-righteous about the DRM.
From skimming the articles about it, they did not disclose that they added HDCP to the new MacBooks nor do they disclose the restriction looking at the Hellboy 2 (the example movie) in the iTunes store. As someone who does show movies on projectors from time to time, I'd be pretty irritated if I lost the ability to do so with no disclosure.
Also, there's nothing wrong with not buying something and complaining about it. That's part of why iTunes now sells unprotected versions (of some songs) rather than just DRM laden files. Feedback and discussion drive the future.