Kleegamefan
K. LEE GAIDEN
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/xbox360_inside.ass
Not even gonna go there...
Not. Even. gonna.
So then in the very next paragraph, we see this:
Well I must be living in happyland or something because Samsung, LG, JVC, Sharp and Mitsubishi are all shipping 1080p displays and if I look to my right real quick, I see something that looks suspiciously like a Sony Qualia 006 RPTV, which is a 1080p display....
$200 HDTVs I haven't seen yet though...perhaps I can buy these in the happyland suburbs?
Well now *THIS* is an intresting comment to make....7.1 surround sound, huh??
Well, we know he is not talking about Dolby Digital or dts, because that is a maximum of 5.1 channels.....he is also not talking about the newer 7.1 channel HD-DVD/BRD audio codecs like dts-HD or Dolby Digital Plus because these necessitate an encrypted digital audio connector (HDMI) for full 7.1 audio...
Dolby Digital EX and/or dts-ES is out too because the are only 6.1 channels
He must be talking about a proprietary 7.1 audio codec.....perhaps WMA based???
I would like to hear more about this...
All in all, its a pretty good interview, though I wonder how much longer we must endure this (mis)information about the competition from both Sony and Microsoft....
Paul: Not to get completely off topic, but there are a couple of things from E3 I'd like to cover. One of them is that Sony talked about 1080p, and there was sort of an ... issue ... there about whether that was even real or not.
Jeff: The total number of 1080p-capable TVs on the planet today is ... zero. There are none. Sony has got a dual ... I want to make sure I say this right, because it's science fiction. They had dual HDMI outputs off the back of the console. And I think that there's some theory that you could take dual 1080i signals and interlace them together to have a progressively rendered scene. But again, there are no TVs that actually support this. I think most people are going to actually take one of the HDMI outputs and just feed it out at 1080i.
Not even gonna go there...
Not. Even. gonna.
So then in the very next paragraph, we see this:
Our focus is on really recognizing that people today are buying HD-capable sets as a mainstream purchase. The price points have really come down. You're starting to see really basic tube-based HD sets now for just $200. So people have got hi-def capable sets at home. Occasionally, you'll see someone with an HD cable or satellite feed--I have HD cable at home--but people are screaming for content to really exercise these hi-def sets that they've bought.
Well I must be living in happyland or something because Samsung, LG, JVC, Sharp and Mitsubishi are all shipping 1080p displays and if I look to my right real quick, I see something that looks suspiciously like a Sony Qualia 006 RPTV, which is a 1080p display....
$200 HDTVs I haven't seen yet though...perhaps I can buy these in the happyland suburbs?
Paul: So Sony's 1080p claim is just...
Jeff: Marketure. Let's sit down and look at a 1080p game on a 1080p console on a 1080p television as soon as those things are all there. I'm eager to see it. We can all guess as to what year that might be.
Hi-def to us means more than just the graphics resolutions we've been talking about though. It also means how people hear the game. On Xbox 360, every single game will support Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound at a minimum. Many games will go higher than that, will use 1080i graphics and 7.1 channel surround sound. But 720p and 5.1 channel surround sound are the minimal hi-def visual and audio aspects of Xbox 360. So hi-def is really that first key pillar for us.
Well now *THIS* is an intresting comment to make....7.1 surround sound, huh??
Well, we know he is not talking about Dolby Digital or dts, because that is a maximum of 5.1 channels.....he is also not talking about the newer 7.1 channel HD-DVD/BRD audio codecs like dts-HD or Dolby Digital Plus because these necessitate an encrypted digital audio connector (HDMI) for full 7.1 audio...
Dolby Digital EX and/or dts-ES is out too because the are only 6.1 channels
He must be talking about a proprietary 7.1 audio codec.....perhaps WMA based???
I would like to hear more about this...
All in all, its a pretty good interview, though I wonder how much longer we must endure this (mis)information about the competition from both Sony and Microsoft....