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Will Blu-ray Drives Drain Laptop Batteries&#63
Now that Blu-ray is the winning HD format, will laptop batteries be able to hold a charge long enough to watch a Blu-ray movie? You’d think that a manufacturer would factor that in when designing a laptop with a built in Blu-ray drive.

But the promise of viewing an increasing variety of HD movies on your laptop may be overshadowed by ongoing concerns over the technology's vampiric effect on battery life. Indeed, if the first generation of Blu-ray equipped laptops are any indication, you might not get more than halfway through that movie before running out of juice completely, analysts say.

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Publish Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:02:00 CST
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I don't know who's winning the HD war, but it isn't us.

News Reader wrote:Will Blu-ray Drives Drain Laptop Batteries?

Well no fucking shit! Newsflash, even turning on a laptop drains its batteries.

I'm happy with plain old fashioned DVDs on a laptop personally.

Not that I watch them much on there though.

TezzRexx wrote:I'm happy with plain old fashioned DVDs on a laptop personally.

Considering the size of even the largest laptop screen it's pretty pointless using it for HD movies.

spoodie wrote:

Considering the size of even the largest laptop screen it's pretty pointless using it for HD movies.

This (for tezz's post as well) A large screened laptop is only good for being a desktop replacement/substitute imo, dell have a 20" one which to me is too unwieldy for transport, if someone gave me that lappy I'd probably just sell it on and get a smaller screened one and keep the lots of change.

Baliame wrote:
Well no fucking shit! Newsflash, even turning on a laptop drains its batteries.

Also in the news, "Will new gfx cards recently released drain batteries?"

HereComesPete wrote:

This (for tezz's post as well) A large screened laptop is only good for being a desktop replacement/substitute imo, dell have a 20" one which to me is too unwieldy for transport, if someone gave me that lappy I'd probably just sell it on and get a smaller screened one and keep the lots of change.

i have a 19" widescreen HDTV and i can only see a difference between dvd and hd dvd movies when i REALLY want to believe that buying the HD addon for the xbox wasn't a complete waste of money

The Incredible... wrote:
i have a 19" widescreen HDTV and i can only see a difference between dvd and hd dvd movies when i REALLY want to believe that buying the HD addon for the xbox wasn't a complete waste of money

Although in fairness you might see more difference on a larger screen.

Personally, I can usually see a difference between a dvd and HD (on both my 20 & 24" screens)

However, it very much depends on the movie and how well the transfer was done. (even on older movies, HD can look better) swings and roundabouts really, there's not all that many movies that really warrant the extra 5-25gb download over a dvd.

I can easily see the difference between a DVD and a 720 MPEG4.

The most noticeable difference is there is no artifacting visible, where as DVDs are full of it. Then there is the detail, CGI scenes are amazingly well rendered. This is on a 24". My PC can't play the 1080i/p releases as there are some scenes which my PC cant keep up. I'm only using a 3.6GHz HT CPU, after all.

When I eventually upgrade my machine I quite fancy trying out a blueray, but they are about 40GB.

I can tell HD fom normal, when watching Torchwood I can see that the characters are quite spotty and not as attractive as I had thought they were.

FatherJack wrote:...watching Torchwood...

There's your problem right there, it's crap.

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