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> MOVIE AFFICIONADOS DECRY NEW DVD FORMAT
>
> LOS ANGELES, CA (UT) - Moviephiles are up in arms over a new DVD
> format
> which they claim will threaten the very existence of the budding
> medium.
>
> "It's horrendous", said Cecil Griffith of the online DVD Maximus
> magazine,
> "It's an assault on our rights as film-goers." The attack he is
> referring
> to is the rumored plan by various studios to scrap the current DVD and
> Blu-Ray
> format as they exist and enact what is commonly referred to as DVD-
> HOMR.
>
> "We're only listening to what the public wants," said Calhoun Cleary,
> spokesperson for
> Syn-Yqe, a multimedia company that introduced the format last winter.
> "And that is
> a DVD format more suitable to public tastes. They want the convenience
> that
> video tape has provided for thirty years."
>
> The DVD-HOMR format calls for a drastically reduced picture
> resolution, far
> lower than current VHS tapes. "We're looking at a picture as clear as
> what viewers
> in Archie Bunker's day saw on their three quarter inch tapes," said
> the company
> spokesperson. "No more will people be forced to squint at the
> crispness of the
> current DVD formats or VHS. We anticipate a resolution of no more than
> 5P."
>
> Another feature is the ability to "rewind" the DVD. "We found that the
> public
> missed the ability to rewind their videos," said Cleary. "By simply
> pressing the
> left arrow on their remotes, the DVD will slowly rewind until it has
> reached
> its beginning." He admitted that the new DVD does not actually rewind,
> but
> added, "We are looking at comfort, not practicality." The simulated
> rewind feature,
> replete with video snow and noise, takes about five minutes. At least
> one rental
> chain is rumored to be planning to fine customers who do not rewind
> their
> DVDs.
>
> Syn-Que re****tedly has also placed random patches of video
> interference in the
> programming, allowing viewers to use the step buttons on their remotes
> to "adjust
> the tracking" of the HOMR images.
>
> The DVD-HOMR will be in full frame, the feature that has most enraged
> critics.
> "We had this battle with laserdisc companies, and now these guys want
> to ruin
> the DVD format," said Griffith, "They want to home video backwards by
> three decades."
>
> Syn-Yqe dismisses these claims, saying that a majority of people in a
> recent focus
> preferred the traditional pan-and-scan method over wide-screen.
> "Besides," added
> Cleary, "You gain more picture information on the top and bottom with
> full-frame."
Very cool!
I can now sell some of those DVD rewinders that I invented a few years
ago.
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