I won't argue with that too much, but I'll never buy a blu ray player. In fact I'm close to never buying a Sony product ever with the way they are going about this whole blu ray thing. I never liked Sony, this is just adding to why I don't like them.
One of them is going to be the HD video format for the next 5-10 years (at least) so which one is it?
http://www.audioholics.com/education/display-formats-technology/1080p-and-the-acuity-of-human-vision/understanding-1080p-resolution-in-displays.html
Hmm, I just glazed over that, and I've read it before. But I thought it was the article that stated that it doesn't make much sense to go over what would be considered something like 1200p. Which isn't a very big step up from 1080p. So as long as cooler heads prevail and marketing doesn't win, which isn't likely, there will never be anything beyond 1080p. It wouldn't make economical sense to pay a premium for a display with slightly higher resolution. Especially for during the early adoption phase, which without early adopters new technologies never hit the masses. What we will see are things like higher refresh rates and larger color gamits. Which we will see a visual improvement in, assuming the displays can handel it and the content was originally filmed in it. Currently both Blu Ray and HD DVD are at 1080p/24hz (commonly called 1080p/24) and I can only assume at NTSC color gamit. NTSC color gamit, IIRC, is only covers about 1/3 of the human color gamit. FWIW from my shopping not many current displays cover the full NTSC color gamit. We will probably (maybe?) see DVD’s in 1080p/60 and a full human color gamit covered. There’s already a ‘standard’ out there called deep color. Both of which (higher refresh rate and deep color) I would assume are possible, or just about possible, from both Blu Ray and HD DVD. Displays can already do 1080p/60. I think there are a few examples out there, albeit prototype or very expensive, which can do deep color. HDMI (v1.3 I think) is already capable of both of these, although that is a moot point because by the time they (higher refresh rate and deep color) are around everything will be wireless (but maybe still some HDMI wireless?). The biggest thing is everything’s being and been filmed at NTSC color gamit and everything now is being filmed at 1080p/24.
Sorry, went off on a tangent, love talking about this stuff.
gamit=gamut, I can't spell but I'm also not patient enough to go back and change all of them.