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| Registered: December 10, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 3,004 |
| | Posted: | | | | While HD support is considerably improved this version, there are still a number of place where it treats them as DVDs when it shouldn't.
* For one, when entering a new title, it enters it as a DVD. The first screen wants you to enter region info. If it is a Blu-ray, you must just pick something, then go fix it later. We eed to be able to slect format right off the bat.
* While the concept could be implemented through other methods, Blu-ray doesn't have an angle function as far as I can tell. The button seems to be there for DVD compatibility.
Would like video specs like we have for audio. We could enter whether the material is SD NTSC, SD PAL, 720p, 1080i, 1080p and the codec. It would only ask about anamorphic if SD.
* Need feature options for BD Live and Picture-in-picture for Blu-ray.
* The program seems to think that the HD audio formats are always 7.1. This is not always the case. Man on Fire, Ice Age and I, Robot all have 5.1 DTS Master Audio, for instance. We need to go back to how things were in earlier versions of the program where codec and channels were selected separately and just disallow certain combinations if they aren't possible.
* Also, this isn't exactly a high-def problem, but we need 4.1 support. | | | | Last edited: by Ace_of_Sevens |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 |  Posts: 366 |
| | Posted: | | | | Our house recently went Blu, and I agree with Ace on these points. |
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| Registered: December 10, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,004 |
| | Posted: | | | | Forgot to mention, Closed-captioning is an NTSC feature. It needs to vanish on PAL & HD discs. |
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Ace_of_Sevens: Quote:
* While the concept could be implemented through other methods, Blu-ray doesn't have an angle function as far as I can tell. The button seems to be there for DVD compatibility.
Some Blu-ray titles do have multi-angles. Never Back Down (025195043243) is one of them where for the fight sequences can be viewed from different angles. Pretty much agree with the rest of your initial list though. | | | | Last edited: by Ardos |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,197 |
| | Posted: | | | | Already suggested most of this here. And it would be nice if the program used the correct terminology, it's Dolby TrueHD, not Dolby Digital TrueHD. | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
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| Registered: December 10, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,004 |
| | Posted: | | | | One more thing: the dialog boxes make reference to DVDs in DVD drives, even when it isn't actually a DVD. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,596 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Ace_of_Sevens: Quote:
One more thing: the dialog boxes make reference to DVDs in DVD drives, even when it isn't actually a DVD. Although more advanced, a Blu-Ray disc is still a DVD (Digital Video Disc) at the end of the day. | | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting 8ballMax: Quote:
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One more thing: the dialog boxes make reference to DVDs in DVD drives, even when it isn't actually a DVD.
Although more advanced, a Blu-Ray disc is still a DVD (Digital Video Disc) at the end of the day. Absolutely correct. The distinction between BD and DVD is insignificant if you are trying to pretend that BD is not a DVD, BD has morestorage capability largely due to an upgrade in DVD technology using a narrower beam laser allowing for more data storage and the higher resolution again as a result of a technological upgrade. they have far more in common than to try an claim they are a totally new medium. Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
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| Registered: December 10, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,004 |
| | Posted: | | | | DVD is not a generic term for any disc that holds video in digital form. If it were, Video CDs would be DVDs. It's a specific format. |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting 8ballMax: Quote:
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One more thing: the dialog boxes make reference to DVDs in DVD drives, even when it isn't actually a DVD.
Although more advanced, a Blu-Ray disc is still a DVD (Digital Video Disc) at the end of the day. Er, no it's not. Saying a BluRay is just still a DVD is like saying a DVD is just still a CD! Just because they're commonly used to store the same material (movies) doesn't make them the same. It would make a lot more sense to replace "DVD" with the more generic "disc". | | | | Last edited: by northbloke |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,596 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting northbloke: Quote:
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One more thing: the dialog boxes make reference to DVDs in DVD drives, even when it isn't actually a DVD.
Although more advanced, a Blu-Ray disc is still a DVD (Digital Video Disc) at the end of the day.
Er, no it's not. Saying a BluRay is just still a DVD is like saying a DVD is just still a CD!
Just because they're commonly used to store the same material (movies) doesn't make them the same.
It would make a lot more sense to replace "DVD" with the more generic "disc". Er, yet it is. DVD is an optical medium for Digital Video storage. Blu-Ray is and optical medium for Digital Video storage. One stores Hi-Definition Video whilst the other stores Standard Definition Video. Apples and oranges. What's the big deal? Now you'll want to change the name of the program because it contains the term DVD?  . | | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 |  Posts: 700 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting 8ballMax: Quote:
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One more thing: the dialog boxes make reference to DVDs in DVD drives, even when it isn't actually a DVD.
Although more advanced, a Blu-Ray disc is still a DVD (Digital Video Disc) at the end of the day. Isn't it "Digital Versatile Disc" still?  althou almost everyone call it "video" disc... or..  | | | | We are all at the same age, only at different time... |
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| Registered: March 10, 2007 | | Posts: 4,282 |
| | Posted: | | | | Officially DVD stands for nothing. Studios wanted Digital Video Disc while the computer folk wanted Digital Versatile Disc. So in the end, they agreed it would be simply "DVD" - not an acronym. Another tidbit: Very early versions of DVD Profiler included a menu option under Tools - "DVD Stands For?", to which the program would respond "...DVD Stands for D___ V___ D___", filled with random words starting with D, V, and D. So, you might get "The alien abductors don't want you to know that DVD stands for Dynamic Visual Domination", or something that makes even less sense.  *Updated with an example from version 0.9.0, which still runs fine under current OSes.  | | | | Invelos Software, Inc. Representative | | | | Last edited: by Ken Cole |
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| Registered: December 10, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,004 |
| | Posted: | | | | Enter your video CDs into DVD Profiler. And your video games. After all, they're on discs and video is in the name. You heard it hear first from Skipnet50. |
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| | Posted: | | | | The more things change the more they stay the same.  | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Ace_of_Sevens: Quote:
Enter your video CDs into DVD Profiler. And your video games. After all, they're on discs and video is in the name. You heard it hear first from Skipnet50. excuse ME, Ace. I have never said any such thing, in fact the Rules specifically your suggestion...but then you believe Star Trek IV is a Comedy, not merely a film with some comedic elements.  Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
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