Coolness Lounge #69 – Podcast Endgame and Problems with HD DVD
Stephen discusses problems he has with the LG BH100 combo HD Blu-Ray player, and the duo discuss issues they’ve had with HD DVD crashing during playback. Stephen also discusses his move to the MacBook Pro, the power of Keynote, and the Podcast Endgame.
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About Stephen Schleicher
Currently, Stephen shares his knowledge with students at Fort Hays State University who are studying media and web development in the Information Networking and Telecommunications department.
When he is not shaping the minds of university students, Stephen continues to work on video and independent projects for State and local agencies and organizations as well as his own ongoing works.
Stephen has a Masters Degree in Communication from Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas . As a forward thinker, he wrote his Thesis on how Information Islands and e-commerce would play a major role in keeping smaller communities alive. This of course was when 28.8 dialup was king and people hadn’t even invented the word e-commerce.
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I don’t know if it was on the Roundup or Lounge podcast but one of you said something that was flat wrong. You said that HD DVD used MPEG 2. Not correct. Nearly all HD DVD titles us VC-1 encoding. Others have used AVC (H.264). Both formats support MPEG-2 as well. But it was Blu-ray that had many early titles compressed with MPEG-2.
I should note that in the format war, so far I’m a c conscientious objector, owning neither. I think Toshiba and Sony both have their heads up their rear ends and are justifiably being flogged to death by consumer apathy over their formats. Compare their sales to DVD and its clear people are going to wait and see.
I think the only way that this format war will end is if the two camps get back together (forced maybe by retailers and studios?) and develop a cheap platform than can play both disc types with minimal duplication of licensing or code. So a studio could, for example, use the Blu-ray physical disc but with HDi interactivity with BD+ copy protection. Or whatever combination of technology they wanted.
It’s not unprecedented. The ATSC standard is HUGE because it married the technologies and desires of a wide variety of company stake-holders.
I don’t know what the problem is with the combo players and why they are so ridiculously priced. I wonder if it’s because they have to license and pay for many of the underlying technologies twice. Both formats support the same codecs. Any differences are irrelevant to the vast majority of consumers although for some reason, the format war has a lot of amateur arm chair soldiers slogging into battle for what amounts to esoteric reasons.
On a side note, I wish one of the AV publications would issue a challenge to these fanboy soldiers to see if any of them can tell the difference in video or audio quality in either of these formats.
Lack of vision? Ouch Charlie. That one stung.
What happens when podcasting becomes everything that we all hate about tv and radio? Advertising. I for one would rather podcasting die and something new come out than see it taken over by “Big Media” than have to sit through commercials and speakers who don’t know what they are talking about. I really enjoy podcasting right now where it’s just a couple of guys or girls who have their opinions (that might even go against the opinions of their sponsors) and give us their views without a lot of irrelevant advertisements.
Love the show. Keep up the good work. Don’t SELL OUT PLEASE!!!