Joe Blog's » Blu Ray http://blog.joeb454.com A Day In The Life Of Your Average Joe Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:04:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Wiki Editing http://blog.joeb454.com/2008/02/wiki-editing/ http://blog.joeb454.com/2008/02/wiki-editing/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:57:30 +0000 Joe http://joeb454.wordpress.com/?p=82 It's not as geeky as it sounds. Purely because it isn't Wikipedia :)

Instead it's on http://wiki.ubuntu.com as I figured it'd be an easy way to get a little bit more involved in the Ubuntu community, without knowing how to get the program code and contribute through development.

I added a wiki page for myself, which can be found here.

On another note - I will be posting up my Pro's & Con's of Blu-Ray Vs HD DVD in the coming days.

]]> http://blog.joeb454.com/2008/02/wiki-editing/feed/ 0 Farewell http://blog.joeb454.com/2008/02/farewell/ http://blog.joeb454.com/2008/02/farewell/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:50:00 +0000 Joe http://joeb454.wordpress.com/?p=80 Somewhat annoyingly only a week and a half after I bought an HD DVD player...Blu-Ray emerges the victor of the High-Def Format "War".

I'm not bothered though, as there's still many films available for HD DVD :) I read the rumors as I'm sure a lot of other people did over the weekend that Toshiba were pulling out of the HD DVD production, but I read the final news on the BBC News website earlier this morning.

So it's been good, and in the end the superior (albeit more expensive) format won. Congrat's, it's just a shame it's a Sony Corp technology.

]]> http://blog.joeb454.com/2008/02/farewell/feed/ 0 Upscaled DVD’s http://blog.joeb454.com/2008/01/upscaled-dvds/ http://blog.joeb454.com/2008/01/upscaled-dvds/#comments Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:08:51 +0000 Joe http://joeb454.wordpress.com/?p=74 I have to say, since I bought my new tv, and went back to using the component cable to connect my Xbox 360 (at 1080p as well :D ) instead of the VGA Cable, I've noticed a significant increase in the picture quality of my DVD's.

Now, I've watched movie's on an HD DVD player at 1080p (full HD) before, and the image quality and sound is brilliant, I can't say much for Blu Ray, as I've never watched a Blu Ray film as of yet. However, while my normal DVD's are nowhere near the same quality as a proper HD source, the image quality is certainly FAR better than that of a normal DVD player.

I'm very impressed...I'm currently watching the Star Wars films on here - in what I call "Semi-HD" ;)

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