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This means that with 20 additional titles reviewed BD has a .07% (negligible) average lead in audio and a .2% (barely noticeable to the average eye) average lead with video quality...

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Mine was from early August. But I find little at your link beyond Amazon sales figures.

And all formats are sold many places, including Amazon, whose figures would be typical of on-line buyers, but not necessarily reflective of buyers at WalMart, Target, and various other retailers' stores. Let us not forget sales at drug stores, supermarkets, etc., where hidef discs are still generally unavailable.

And 2.5% is not 3%, yet. The pie chart reflected 1.8% of the market, earlier in 2007. I'm not obsessive enough to rebuild the chart every few weeks.

Even 5% of the market, shared by two essentially incompatible formats, is not much impact on the entire market, especially when the overall market is growing, including the actual nubers of the 95% (which, by your figures is still at 97.5%).

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The difference is that a top video game reviewer could be ANYONE that played games for a while.  A top movie reviewer generally needs to do a lot more than watch movies.  That is why top movie reviewers go into edge enhancements, black levels, bit rates, color accurancy, and reference calibrated equipment, etc.  Then, they actually talk about the movie itself (which is usually completely based on that individual's taste).

How many video game reviewers talk about the polygon counts, how many vertex shaders were active during certain levels, etc?  There's the difference.

WRONG. "Top video game reviewers" are not ANYONE. They are journalists who work for publishing companies and take their work seriously. If they focused on polygon counts, they would bore their readers to death, they discuss the merits of a game, or lack thereof, and discuss graphics and sound in relation to the gameplay experience and art style. A game is not rated on how many vertex shaders are active per level.

WRONG."Top movie reviewers" do not go into the technology of home movie formats, they review movies. Script, Plot, Direction, Performances, Themes, Cinematography, Art Direction, Sound etc etc. Movie reviews have absolutely nothing to do with DVD/HD DVD/BLU RAY edge enhancement and bitrates.

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Lionsgate presents 'Corpses' here in 1080p/VC-1 video. The most immediately striking aspect of the film is its colors. They are violently intense, yet I was incredibly impressed with how clean they are. Even the most shocking primaries are rock solid, with no bleeding and very, very little noise (if any at all) is present. Though the highly-stylized nature of the movie does obscure the finest detail somewhat (and don't expect "natural" fleshtones), the presentation still has tremendous pop. Blacks are excellent and contrast bright, but not overdone. Shadow delineation also holds up nicely, and I was expecting much more of a black crush, but that's not the case. There is also no apparent edge enhancement or other compression artifacts. 'Corpses' looks far better in high-def than you'd expect.

(Note that there are some sections of 'Corpses' that are intentionally degraded and/or shot on low-quality video, but as clear directorial decisions, they don't detract from this first-rate transfer.)

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I've got to hand it to Lionsgate -- more than any other studio of late, they've really been pushing the limits of high-resolution audio on Blu-ray. As they've done with other recent titles like 'Delta Farce,' once again here we get a nice DTS-HD High-Resolution 7.1 surround track (1.5mbps). I don't think a film like 'House of 1000 Corpses' really needs it, but far be it from me to complain about a studio pulling out all the stops.

Despite a fairly low budget, 'Corpses' actually does have a few nifty and inventive audio tricks up its sleeve. Right from the first scene, when a couple of misguided hoods attempt to rob Captain Spaulding, there's plenty of action to light up the entire 360-degree soundfield. Surrounds are most impressive, with the expanded channels in the rear boasting excellent imaging of discrete effects, and superior localization. When the horror finally kicks in, atmosphere is noticeably improved (the first attack on the kids is a highlight), and the sense of depth and realism to sounds is excellent.

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So it didn't raise ANY flags to you that in a conversion about PQ and SQ, he goes into depth about the PQ difference and not a thing about the SQ difference?  No flag at all raised when you saw that?

Not at all.  Why?  Because they are all subjective numbers.  They are not based on any measurable scientific standard.  In other words, they are opinions and have very little meaning.

Everybody has different tastes, equipment, eye sight and hearing ability.  Just because a group of reviewers think something is good doesn't make it so.  On the whole, it is meaningless data so I give it very little, if any, consideration.

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STEFC has a PS3 as a BD player only (according to him).

WRONG - My PS3 is a games console - I have bought 1 BD disc, still can't find another worth buying. Show me where I state i have a PS3 player as a BD player only...

Let's put it this way...

August 17, 2007, in the game console thread, the following was part of your post:

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Question for you AS, I bought a PS3, it came with 2 BDs, since then I've bought 1 more (can't find any other exclusives I want to buy).

Now, as we can see, your two statements match up.  They both point to you having BD titles and NO GAMES for the PS3.  You supposedly don't have any games, but you bought a BD title.  Does that make it a gaming machine only or a movie player only?

Here is the 2nd half of that post.

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If the PS3 is set to upscale DVDs (and does so pretty well), why can't it upscale the MPEG2 SD extras on a BD? My PS3 always outputs them at 480p?

I rest my case.

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Show me examples of top video game reviewers backgrounds.  If you can show that top game reviewers have the qualifications you mentioned, I will accept that.  If you can't, will you accept my point?

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As far as your top movie reviewer statement, I beg to differ.