CaTaClYsM wrote:another question, with those blue lazer DVD's, what exctly would you be able to do with them for a regular TV? I mean, imagine how high the bitrates could get. Or how much video you could cram onto it. :drools:
The point about blue lasers is that you can cram enough data on that you can use MPEG-2 for long form recording in HD, since realtime MPEG-2 codecs are almost cheap, and otherwise you're stuck with expensive D-VHS - while another standard puts MPEG-4 on a standard DVD to achieve HD resolution, since MPEG-4 coding in HD doesn't appear to be feasible in realtime yet.
(zettai, you should have been at Minami - there was a guy there who used to work for Philips, and a friend and I had great fun grilling him about optical tech...)