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  • Werewolf
    Inhuman
    • Jul 14, 2003
    • 14975

    #61
    Originally posted by Corellian Corvette
    Werewolf - Send me a PM, please. I'd like to hear about your experience.
    PM sent.
    You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...

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    • cjefferys
      Duke of Gloat
      • Apr 23, 2006
      • 10180

      #62
      Originally posted by Dave Mc
      As for the Blu-Ray HDDvd vs. Standard DVD thing. You wont notice any real difference unless you are watching an HD TV, and then it depends on the resolution of the HD TV. I have a 1080p machine. A decent standard DVD that is enhanced for widescreen viewing looks real good played on the HD machines (upconverted). Still, there is no comparision to a movie played back HDDvd or Blu-Ray that is presented in true 1080p. The difference is stunning.
      Agree 100%. I have a 1080p television too, and upconverted standard DVDs can look very good (depending on the transfer, etc) and sometimes almost hi def like, but a properly done BD or HD DVD looks much better. I've done A/B comparisions going back and forth for the same film, and honestly, after watching a segment of a film in 1080p on BD or HD DVD, watching the same segment in 480i/p on standard DVD can look almost like VHS in comparison. Some scenes can look literally three dimensional in 1080p.

      Still, there is an expense issue. I wouldn't buy old westerns or many older movies if they were released in an HC format at this point, but modern fx movies are just SO COOL on these new formats.
      True, it's the newer movies that really benefit from the format, but I've heard some older films like THE SEARCHERS and 2001 look equally stunning in hidef (the latter because it was shot in 70mm, so the transfer has much more detail that BD or HD DVD can display).


      Anyway, I fully understand that to many people, DVD is good enough, and there is nothing wrong with that. I guess things like that are more important to movie nuts or home theatre tech heads. Everyone has priorities on what they want to spend their spare cash on (like I have to tell anyone reading this forum that ). I like spending money on the latest electronics for my home theatre (and the movies to play on them), but I drive a completely plain, cheaper, ordinary car with no bells and whistles. It's all what's important to you.

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