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Digital videodiscs are enormously popular, and high-definition televisions are finally starting to catch on. But the next logical step--DVDS that carry high-definition (HD) movies--has proved to be a difficult one. Ordinary DVDs can't hold the data required for true HD video, and electronics manufacturers haven't been able to agree on a new DVD format with enough capacity to do the job. Instead, they have broken into two warring camps: the so-called Blu-ray group (established by Sony and endorsed by Philips, Panasonic, Pioneer and Samsung) and the HD DVD Promotion Group (supported...
...true comparison, I connected both TVs to a Sony DVD player, using a special (and expensive) box. The DVD player upconverts the video signal from DVDs to high def. That doesn't mean that the videos themselves are HD, but they do look pretty good. I was able to view movies such as Batman Begins, House of Flying Daggers and The Incredibles on both screens at once. Later, I connected the TVs to my cable box to watch true high-definition signal - the ESPN HD broadcast of last Monday night's Phillies-Braves game. This might not be termed...
...users will be happy to know that the HD1?s MPEG-4 video files are compatible with the latest version of iMovie HD. I copied the files to my Mac?s hard drive then dragged them into iMovie, whereupon the software would automatically import them into the clip window. This is exceptionally good news, since last I checked iMovie rejects older MPEG-2 video files...
...high-def, how do you enjoy the highest resolution video on your TV? You could play them back through the camcorder - pushing files back and forth to the SD memory card shouldn?t be a problem. Soon enough, though, you might end up with a Blu-ray or even HD DVD burner - one that will let you record true high-definition content onto a shiny silver disc. Sure, it?s cool, but in the first couple of years, none of that stuff will come cheap...
TIME: You've changed a lot of formats, expanded programming online, moved stations to HD. When will investors see profits from all this...