Comments on: ZitZot: CBHD, China’s own alternative to Blu-Ray

By: dwoozle

dwoozle — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:26:32 +0000

To #6: usenet has rips with minimal quality? Clearly you don't know what you are talking about…

Typical usenet/torrent HD movie release is 8-12 GB 1080p rip encoded with x264 codec, high bitrate and DTS 5.1 audio (4-6 GB if 720p, sometimes DD 5.1 instead of DTS, but I download only 1080p lately). I watch movies on a 3m wide screen (last 1080p Panasonic projector) and cannot see any difference in terms of quality between original BluRay and these rips. So I just don't buy BluRays any more.

If you cannot see any difference on such a big screen, you won't see a difference on an LCD or plazma TV as well, even if it's 60 inch one.

You can also download full BluRay rips (30 GB or so) from usenet, but it doesn't make any sense to me. Takes much more time for no or very minimal gain. Bigger size is not because of better quality, but mostly because of less efficient codec used.

By: GO CHINA

GO CHINA — Mon, 18 May 2009 03:42:58 +0000

YES! CHEAPER RELEASES!

By: Prizm

Prizm — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:34:36 +0000

lame

By: Coop

Coop — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:52:36 +0000

Once production costs for these things goes lower than blu-ray production costs, the chinese population may not have a choice when it comes to buying a HD player.
Once this format takes over china, it could very easily take over the rest of the world.

Good news for us, is that sony loses its monopoly and we get cheap stuff.

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:35:40 +0000

It cost 20$ but i download like $500 worth of films, so yeah.

By: Shoa

Shoa — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:24:51 +0000

Untill the ps3 is cracked burners will not be used as the disc's are to expencive.

Once and if the ps3 is hacked you will see an explosion of blue ray burners and disc's filying off the shelves.
This will then make them cheaper for retailers to sell to the public.
While they do not sell they will stay expencive to make and expencive to buy.

So lets hope the ps3 gets hacked quickly even though nothing has happened it will in the end.

But this format is not going any where lets face it, it will just stay in china HD was a better format than blueray as it has more functions and just as a disc which you all forget about.

It had online content abillity unlike the blueray, it was probably the best choce but because the ps3 was there they sold much more because of the kids and the console.

Toshiba needed to bring it out on a console the moment it brought out the disc format to compete rather than wait a year then put it on a x360.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:35:07 +0000

the blu-ray players and drives cost to much and theres not enough movies/tv-series/etc to buy or even to rent to make it worth buying.

please note, that the rest of the world pays-per-gig, downloading isnt always a alternative option.

By: The Realist

The Realist — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:16:02 +0000

Why pay for usenet even? You should get a newsgroup access with your isp.

Glad people are trying different formats that are more cost effective. I still have around 150-200 dvds I have collected over the years from bargain bin hunting. DvD isn't going anywhere and works just fine. If they want to improve something keep working on upscaling .

By: Bobb

Bobb — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:26:47 +0000

What does the acronym actually mean?

By: paul

paul — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:10:23 +0000

about time some one took sony on

By: Rlslate

Rlslate — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:35:38 +0000

@16 james

http://rapidshare.com/files/226312069/Smart_Ass_Chinese_v2.2.6+CrackAss-ChInA.zipass

By: -____-

-____- — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:43:08 +0000

I would love for this to succeed so that there's a thing called COMPETITION and forces the blu ray movies to go down in price, use your brains ppl!!

By: dudius

dudius — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:52:38 +0000

I think a few people are missing the point here. When I first started downloading and using movies on the computer, I couldn't afford the new-fangled DVD burners and discs. The Chinese came up with the SVCD system which, for a newbie like me, was brilliant. I could put a film of near-dvd quality on a super-cheap CD, and any cheap DVD player would play it.
It would seem that this is to be something similar, and if you could burn these using a standard DVD burner, would obviously save a lot of people (mainly Chinese), a LOT of money.
Hey, I'd have a go at burning HD content, even though I have no intention of buying a BD burner.
I think it's interesting.

By: Xyu

Xyu — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:07:33 +0000

Oh boy!
Did you guys see chinese new cars? Most of them by design look like as a rip off from well known brands such as Mercedes, WW, BMW. They clame it's their own design, whatever, I'm sure the quality is near close to the originals. Now this CBHD bullsh.t?
Give me a break! It will never go through!

By: Anathema

Anathema — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:13:08 +0000

Yeah going backwards is the right thing to do China! Good job in creating a product which is majorly based on a defunct product AND is not up to the standard of Blu-Ray.

Awesome work there guys! That's the way to do it!

But then again, it worked with SVCD! So why can't this.