Tell me, oh experts: In the old days there was DVD and now we have "blue ray" which provides a highter quality. However, when DVD's first came in, I distinctly remember that the manufacturers, under pressure from the film makers, agreed to never provide a digital output from their players. This was a universal thing because if a digital output had been made available, we were informed then, it would be possibe to obtain cinema quality from our DVD players. A suitable TV projector and a nice big screen would therefore be all that was required to turn your living room into a full cinema!
In those early days a few of the electronics enthusiast's magazines published details as to how to modify a DVD player to obtain a digital output, but this all went quiet years ago and we never hear of it today. Because tellies can be potentially much bigger than they were in the days of the CRT, an increase in definition and HD telly is now a necessity for the largest ones. So is blue ray a halfway house to provide an acceptable HD picture for the largest tellies but a way of preventing the definition of a DVD from attaining its maximum potential value to protect the cinema trade?
P.P.