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First things first, last time I checked most people would agree that AUDIO QUALITY and SOUND QUALITY are the same. Do I need to edit the post so that it reads SOUND QUALITY, or SQ? Less than one tenth of a percent in average sound quality scores is negligible. I'm not sure why my calibration came into this discussion as it has nothing to do with anything here. Yes, I expect all of my equipment to perform to the highest potential it is capable of. Anyway, I did point out the "GAP" in the audio reviews of both formats, I mentioned it more than once. It's less than a tenth of a percent. However, as I have pointed out in other posts, when a head-to-head comparison is made on one title in both formats the HD version either matched or beat th BD version if every single case.

I agree that the reference pool is still lean but I can only work with the numbers that are there. The only way around that is to mathematically forecast future reviews based on the information available. I did the leg work, someone else can tackle that one!

I have no interest in wasting the next week of my life visiting four more sites only to come to the same conclusion. I can't believe I did it last night to be honest.

In the information I provided, it is broken down as to how many titles on each format got which score in both audio (sound) quality and picture quality. If the average is wrong, which someone claims it is with the audio quality, then prove it. Where did my numbers go askew? I have everything laid out there and have challenged everyone to check my math. The difference turned out to be less than one tenth of a percent difference, with BD having more titles and theoretically better transfers to begin with since they have more exclusives. If anyone can provide information to disprove my math then by all means go for it. You can't simply say I'm wrong. The numbers are there for you to double check. Obvioulsly I missed a title or two as you can see from the post, I looked at over 1000 numbers and missed 5 along the way. Big deal.

As for challenging the post as to how many were from neutral studios, I have no desire to now go back and gather that information because it is virtually irelevant. If a studio decides to "handicap" one format or the other that's not my problem. I'm simply going by the product that is put out there. If HD gets a DD+ track and BD gets DD then I can't do anything about that. It's interesting that they would choose to put a lesser soundtrack on the "greater" of the formats.

From what I could tell on HighDef Digest, the same reviewer would take the lead on a particular title and compare the different formats to each other. From that standpoint the subjectivity is limited as in both formats got relatively equal reviews. In only a few cases did the reviewer give a slight edge to the HD transfer, while still giving BD the praise (or lack thereof) that it deserved. That shows to me that there isn't any preference and a true comparison and review has been done.

For the record, the Corpses review doesn't matter. It is only available on BD so it can't be reasonably compared to itself on a format that it isn't available on. Look at the review of 300 though, that makes sense. One reviewer takes the HD and BD version and reviews the film and compares the two formats against each other. That means more than a single exclusive title review. I could find a HD exclusive that would have a review just as good but it doesn't matter because there is simply no comparison to be made, to anything. 

As you could all tell from the post last night, I'm not hiding any information. I flat out said that BD has a NEGLIGBLE lead based on the reviews. How am I trying to spin that? Go figure...

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So NOW you are saying the PS3 is mainly for your recently MASSIVE 3 game titles, right?

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You don't play movies on it more than you play games on it, right?  If not, what exactly ARE you saying about you PS3 usage?  And, how soon can we expect this to change?

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Funny, my many other posts with hard numbers based off scientific processes were shrugged off by you as well.  Why don't you just say that just about anything that shows Blu-ray's advantages, you refuse to acknowledge?  That would make this a lot simpler.

Show me one post where I shrugged off numbers based on scientific processes.

Just about anytime I posted the SI sales numbers, the YTD sales numbers, the week to week sales numbers, and the bandwidth specs.  I will edit this post and add dates of posts where you shrugged/ignored that fact that it exists (when I come back).

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Funny, my many other posts with hard numbers based off scientific processes were shrugged off by you as well.  Why don't you just say that just about anything that shows Blu-ray's advantages, you refuse to acknowledge?  That would make this a lot simpler.

Show me one post where I shrugged off numbers based on scientific processes.

Just about anytime I posted the SI sales numbers, the YTD sales numbers, the week to week sales numbers, and the bandwidth specs.  I will edit this post and add dates of posts where you shrugged/ignored that fact that it exists (when I come back).

You go ahead and edit it but make sure that all your numbers were bassed on scientific processes. 

How can SI numbers, YTD numbers, weekly numbers, and bandwidth specs be based on anything else?

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For instance, there are some things that don't need to go through EVERY step in the scientific method to be proven. In the YTD and weekly numbers, the THEORY could be that Blu-ray sells more copies of titles than HD DVD (on YTD sales and/or weekly sales).  The OBSERVATION and EXPERIMENTATION portion would be to have an enivronment set-up for these HD format to be sold and track the purchases (already done via merchants and Nielsen Videoscan).  The FORMULATION of hypotheses is that Blu-ray DOES indeed sell more copies of titles than HD DVD.  Rinse and repeat.

You brought the cross and the nails, but I won't nail you to it.  I just had some great news, so you get a free pass on the stuff for today.  Of course, you will just spit in my face for it, but who cares today?