This also means it will have the exact same audio / video quality as whatever other DVD software you have installed, because it will be using the same filters.
So, it's not an issue of quality -- only of presentation. What does Hairstyle / fullscreen need to be as good as TT in this regard?
Matt,
Hairstyle is very promising, and I plan on using it quite a lot for music. For video, the non-intrusive OSD of TT is very nice (the video is still going on full screen, like a conventional DVD player). I like the fact that it is not gimmicky, but still lets you know what just happened (as opposed to letting you see what you can do next). I would certainly welcome a similar interface for video material (TV and DVDs), and even audio in MC. Maybe- Hairsyle can do it (I haven't seen it, but my investigations were very limited)
TT also offers some very nice features (some are related to video quality, in some ways at least), which I can't do without. The most obvious one for me is the ability to adjust picture size very finely (so that circles will be... circular, even if your display doesn't have square pixels... and also to have cleaner edges on 'open-mat' DVDs).
There are also some great usability features (settings per disk, including where to start, which filtering to apply, which aspect ratio to use -even if the disk is flagged incorrectly), which make for a great experience. If find that I use most features, and that almost all my needs are covered (DD and DTS decoding are the main things missing for me).
I must say that, for now, MC9.0 is a great piece of software, with a lot of power for music playing (APE, ASIO, oversampling, and the recently unveiled multichannel potential are very important to me), but it is more akin to Zoom Player in the DVD world (very powerful, but also a little bit daunting). Hairsyle -someone called it Hairspray on another forum
- is a step towards increased usability, but it's too early for me to make a final assessment.
I really appreciate the work you guys are doing, and look forward to the final product (I know MC9 is in beta stage, so things like crashes on autoplay of CDs when MC9 is not already open, or YADB issues are still perfectly acceptable).