In Reply to: Also the more "universal" a player, the more compromises posted by Christine Tham on March 16, 2006 at 22:31:18:
>>I learnt an interesting lesson designing my players - the more formats that I tried to support the more compromises I had to make.<<This is one of the main reasons why so many universal players sound so craptacular. They are nothing but a box of compromises.
I have spoken to a number of the "serious" high-end player makers, and every one of them has said that video-based universal players simply cannot be made without compromises. Several of them have tried, but they all have failed to build an uncompromised universal video player.
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- Indeed - racerguy 22:49:10 03/16/06 (26)
- I guess you didn't talk to me... - Charles Hansen 06:25:53 03/17/06 (16)
- Re: I guess you didn't talk to me... - racerguy 07:39:58 03/17/06 (15)
- Esoteric and APL - Sordidman 11:22:16 03/17/06 (0)
- Re: I guess you didn't talk to me... - Charles Hansen 09:16:22 03/17/06 (13)
- You reinforced my point - racerguy 11:24:54 03/17/06 (12)
- Absolutely not - Charles Hansen 19:00:25 03/17/06 (11)
- Re: Absolutely not - racerguy 19:36:07 03/17/06 (10)
- Help me out here - Charles Hansen 19:47:46 03/17/06 (9)
- Gladly - racerguy 06:23:01 03/18/06 (8)
- You're still missing one thing - Charles Hansen 06:53:58 03/18/06 (7)
- Let's stop this - racerguy 07:40:49 03/18/06 (6)
- Besides... - Charles Hansen 08:56:46 03/18/06 (0)
- I can't read your mind - Charles Hansen 08:36:10 03/18/06 (4)
- Mind reading???? - racerguy 08:58:33 03/18/06 (3)
- As an "enginerd", I'm a little slow on the uptake, so... - Charles Hansen 09:25:06 03/18/06 (2)
- End. Finish. Stop. (nt) - racerguy 09:54:18 03/18/06 (1)
- Gotcha (nt) - Charles Hansen 10:43:36 03/18/06 (0)
- the main reason is due to the requirement to sync audio to video - Christine Tham 23:04:35 03/16/06 (8)
- Not really - Charles Hansen 06:20:02 03/17/06 (7)
- IF you are going to compromise the video, why bother? - Christine Tham 13:53:08 03/17/06 (6)
- Why bother to ask such meaningless questions? - Charles Hansen 19:03:51 03/17/06 (5)
- My, you are in a feisty mood! - Christine Tham 11:34:05 03/19/06 (4)
- It's already been reviewed several times - Charles Hansen 13:57:09 03/19/06 (3)
- But none of these reviews are recent, or compares it with a $300 player - Christine Tham 15:42:21 03/19/06 (2)
- You're right... - Charles Hansen 19:14:42 03/19/06 (1)
- Of course - Christine Tham 22:34:56 03/19/06 (0)