My rant for this week, or day...

[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

Lately I have been doing a lot of traveling for work, so to pass time along while waiting in airports I surf other hometheater sites to see what everyone is yappin about.

I have been lurking at hometheaterforum just kinda reading what people had to say, and I stumbled into the HD-DVD/Bluray area and man what infighting they have going on over there about which is better. Now you have two formats, both unfinished (no 1.3 HDMI), one player for each format, both littered with problems (bluray somewhat fewer than HD DVD) and limited amount movies for both formats. You have people saying that because Bluray is using MPEG-2 encoding and not VC-1 for the video, the format is not good as HD-DVD. Is that not stupid or what?? The both support the same video and audio codecs, Sony has decided to use the more well known and more familar codec as opposed to a newer untried codec. Who cares that it is not as efficient, as long as it doesn't turn out bad images whats the beef??

I am a hometheater nut. But I also have a life, and do not have time to argue with people over the menutia of each disc based HD format. Its seems like majoring in minors. I seems to me that before all of these arguments take place, you need a finished product from a few more manufacturers, and lots of titles to compare. We currently have neither. I am glad this website has degenerated into this kind of stupid sniping over this issue. AVS forum is three times worse than Hometheaterforum on this issue with know it alls chiming in whenever their favorite HD format is commented on.

Bah!!