Also 8.1 is a marketing ploy to make you think you need a new receiver. Dolby and DTS don't support anything above seven channels (three front, three back and a sub). No films are mixed in anything above that and in fact few dvds are even mixed in 6.1.
Dolby experimented with 10.2 but I doubt the home consumer will see anything like that for at least a decade or so. Anyway 5.1 is good enough!
ANd they dont need to convince me i need a new reciever, i Do need one, and if i'm getting one, it might as well be as upgradable as possible for future goo, which means at least 7.1.
persoanlly i dont care about the rear center, i just want 2 rear, 3 front and 2 side.
Some testing was done by a home theater magazine about a year or two ago to determine if the benefits of a properly configured 7.1 or 10.2 system could be detected by the average listener. I'll just cut to the chase and let you know that they generally couldn't. It's number-pushing at its finest. Just like the megapixels war in cameras, just like the superzoom wars in camcorders, and the wattage wars in personal stereos, etc...they are numbers that generally don't relate to quality.
Future upgradability is nice, but marketing gimmicks aren't about the future. How many VHS DA+ tapes to you have? Qsound DVDs?
The thign is, the 7.1 systems i'm looking at, are not that much more than the 5.1 systems i'm looking at, for a little more coin, i'll get the extra speakers. if it was a LOT more, then no way. i mean i am after all trying to buy a house and stuff.
I wasn't really expecting anything because the big news already happened, JMS is working on feature films. So hiring Ron Howard's dad to play John Sheridan's father was a smart move. :D
If you've got a lossless 7.1 source, you can hear a distinct difference. If you have a 5.1 source, 7.1 is faked. If you want to future proof for bluray, go for the 7.1 with HDMI(not passthrough) and DTS-HDMA and Dolby TrueHD decoding. If you have a ps3, you only need the non pass hdmi.
Dug
[QUOTE=Seafroggys;173857]Quadrophonic Sound was actually the best, but it never got standardized and had no popularity when it was around. Thus its sad but inevitable death.[/QUOTE]
I love quadraphonic for the novelty factor alone. Somewhere here, I have a set of four flaming lips CDs that are intended to be played synchronized from devices surrounding the listener such that they each provide two channels of a total eight.
Also, this doesn't seem to me to be a no-go for future Lost Tales. Perhaps a delay, but it doesn't even give away anything of interest. However, said post was from June 17, not June 19. So will there actually be anything announced today, or no?
for those unaware of what we're referring to...
[quote="JMS on June 17, 2008"]
I apologize for the cryptic nature of what follows, but in time this
will all be cleared up.
Starting mid-July into August and possibly September, I'm going to be
traveling quite a lot in researching a new movie project that I
cannot, for the moment, announce. (Not Lensman, this is a different
project, and I've already started on Lensman.) Suffice to say that
the research stage is going to be extensive in the extreme.
The main emphasis is on advanced technology. If someone who can do
the math were to look down the road a million years and see what
advances might be there, based on what we know now, what would that
look like? Advanced tech here covers warfare, living, toys,
environment, health, media, space travel, you name it. Everything
that a civilization a million years more advanced than we are might
use or encounter.
Secondarily to this would be information on planetary physics and
alien biology.
To that effect, my intent is to visit as many of the following places
as possible: NASA Florida, the Wright-Paterson Air Force Base High
Technology Labs, MIT, CalTech, and any other places that seem like
good prospects. (If there's anything missing from that list, feel
free to add it.) I'm going to listen, ask questions, and try to keep
up. And no, there's no money involved, though if anyone proves to be
insanely helpful, I can try to work out a consulting credit. No
promises.
The studio is going to help with some of the legwork here, they say
they can get me into Wright-Pat, but we'll see...even so, the ways of
studios grind very slowly. So I turn to you lot for assistance since
a number of you either are, or know someone who is, directly involved
with this stuff.
I wonder if that's something B5 related, we've seen a glimpse of how things are a million years from now.
But I'm thinking it's something completely new, he's already familiar with the B5 universe and wouldn't need such extensive research on how things would work.
Really though, we can't predict how things will be in a million years in the detail he's talking about. Could someone from the time when the pyramids were being built have predicted the Internet? Or video games? Or the things we now know about the cosmos? I think JMS did a good job in B5 with the First Ones, and that part of that was that he avoided going into too much detail, that we just can't predict something like that. It's like G'kar talking about the First Ones and comparing us to ants.
[QUOTE=Chaosed;173873]Looked to me like JMS said he won't do any more tv writing.[/QUOTE]
Hardly. From his [url=http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-17711]June 7 post[/url]:
[QUOTE][B]Then off again to London for meetings
with several production companies regarding TV projects[/B], and a meeting
with director Paul Greengrass on They Marched Into Sunlight, for Tom
Hanks' company, before flying back to LA for four days of massive
jetlag. [/QUOTE]
Emphasis mine. And don't forget the [url=http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-17698]TV project he's been working on with the filmmaker group.[/url]
Comments
Also 8.1 is a marketing ploy to make you think you need a new receiver. Dolby and DTS don't support anything above seven channels (three front, three back and a sub). No films are mixed in anything above that and in fact few dvds are even mixed in 6.1.
Dolby experimented with 10.2 but I doubt the home consumer will see anything like that for at least a decade or so. Anyway 5.1 is good enough!
ANd they dont need to convince me i need a new reciever, i Do need one, and if i'm getting one, it might as well be as upgradable as possible for future goo, which means at least 7.1.
persoanlly i dont care about the rear center, i just want 2 rear, 3 front and 2 side.
Future upgradability is nice, but marketing gimmicks aren't about the future. How many VHS DA+ tapes to you have? Qsound DVDs?
[url]http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117987706.html?categoryid=3173&cs=1[/url]
Vindication! :p
Dug
Red. TLT are movies so they may yet be done. Movies are good but tv can develop a story so much better.
I love quadraphonic for the novelty factor alone. Somewhere here, I have a set of four flaming lips CDs that are intended to be played synchronized from devices surrounding the listener such that they each provide two channels of a total eight.
Also, this doesn't seem to me to be a no-go for future Lost Tales. Perhaps a delay, but it doesn't even give away anything of interest. However, said post was from June 17, not June 19. So will there actually be anything announced today, or no?
for those unaware of what we're referring to...
[quote="JMS on June 17, 2008"]
I apologize for the cryptic nature of what follows, but in time this
will all be cleared up.
Starting mid-July into August and possibly September, I'm going to be
traveling quite a lot in researching a new movie project that I
cannot, for the moment, announce. (Not Lensman, this is a different
project, and I've already started on Lensman.) Suffice to say that
the research stage is going to be extensive in the extreme.
The main emphasis is on advanced technology. If someone who can do
the math were to look down the road a million years and see what
advances might be there, based on what we know now, what would that
look like? Advanced tech here covers warfare, living, toys,
environment, health, media, space travel, you name it. Everything
that a civilization a million years more advanced than we are might
use or encounter.
Secondarily to this would be information on planetary physics and
alien biology.
To that effect, my intent is to visit as many of the following places
as possible: NASA Florida, the Wright-Paterson Air Force Base High
Technology Labs, MIT, CalTech, and any other places that seem like
good prospects. (If there's anything missing from that list, feel
free to add it.) I'm going to listen, ask questions, and try to keep
up. And no, there's no money involved, though if anyone proves to be
insanely helpful, I can try to work out a consulting credit. No
promises.
The studio is going to help with some of the legwork here, they say
they can get me into Wright-Pat, but we'll see...even so, the ways of
studios grind very slowly. So I turn to you lot for assistance since
a number of you either are, or know someone who is, directly involved
with this stuff.
So...let the games begin.
jms[/quote]
But I'm thinking it's something completely new, he's already familiar with the B5 universe and wouldn't need such extensive research on how things would work.
Worf
Hardly. From his [url=http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-17711]June 7 post[/url]:
[QUOTE][B]Then off again to London for meetings
with several production companies regarding TV projects[/B], and a meeting
with director Paul Greengrass on They Marched Into Sunlight, for Tom
Hanks' company, before flying back to LA for four days of massive
jetlag. [/QUOTE]
Emphasis mine. And don't forget the [url=http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-17698]TV project he's been working on with the filmmaker group.[/url]
Jan