From: (Neil Wagner) - CED Magic

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Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 09:43:22 -0400
From: Michael McGann
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Tom Howe
Subject: Re: CED Digest Vol. 2 No. 20
Tom,
I have to vent a little about this DVD bashing here. Suffice it to say,
I'm one of the few people in the world with a CED, Laserdisc and DVD
players in my home theater setup.
Let's address the major factual errors:
A. Pixellation. Yes, some of the demo discs suffered from a touch of it
because they hadn't figured how to encode the discs properly. And yes,
some of the titles in current release, particularly the Warner Home
Video titles, have it in spots because of compression needs. WHV still
isn't making dual-layer discs, which gets them in trouble if they need
to go over 133 minutes. Check out any of the dual-layer MGM or New Line
releases and I doubt you'll see much pixellation if any. Just like
laserdisc, and CED for that matter, it depends on who makes the disc.
B: Lines of resolution. Peak 500, real world about 425. Twice that of
VHS, and more than CED or laserdisc. You can tell the difference on a
700-line TV.
C: Companies paying off the press: Yeah, right. We as a group have been
trashing DVD for 18 months, and generally are as surprised as anyone
that it actually works, and that people are buying it in surprising
numbers. If a format sucks, we say it does. That's why MD and DCC
haven't ever sold.
Sorry if this seems a little grouchy. I'm fond of my CED, wrote a cute
story comparing it and DVD last year, and I've begun collecting titles.
But I'm also not anchored in the past and I can embrace new technology.
Mike McGann
Managing Editor
Dealerscope Consumer Electronics Marketplace (A monthly trade magazine
for the consumer electronics industry)
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Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 14:15:25 -0600
From: David Potochick
To: ceds@teleport.com
Subject: Gobbledegook, DVD, etc........