My understanding is that in many cases either the original show was not shot with hi-def in mind or the disc producers don't bother to get a hi-def master and just upconvert the standard def material they already have on hand.
We shot our documentary, “Rockin’ the Wall” (www.rockinthewall.com) in HD and the difference to my eye is quite noticeable. It’s stunning in Blue Ray.
New movies that come out on Blu-Ray are far superior in quality than standard DVD(if you have a good HD TV).
Older movies that have been ‘up-converted’ aren’t much different.
Blu-Ray are also great for file storage, compared to other disks, but who in the hell uses optical disks for file storage anymore? Flash memory, FTW. I wish they would start putting media on Flash disks, but I doubt it will happen. As bandwidth increases, expect all media to go online, where the providers can control all of the content.
This is a silly argument.
Without a good display capable of supporting 1080p natively, there is no point in investing in Blu-Ray media and equipment.
With the necessary items, Blu-Ray is stunning.
I don't watch much TV, but I do play computer games. Racing is my hobby. It's cheaper than golf (I lost a lot of balls . . .)
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My questions is whether the high-end Blu-ray players that cost several hundred bucks more than the one I got do a better job of this.
I have two Blu-Ray players but only one disc. I hooked one player up to a Dell 25” monitor which is the only thing I own which has HD specs.
Now I am not tech savvy, tho I would have been in my youth. I suppose my single Blu-Ray disc which is “Smallville” season 7, may not be of best quality but I can’t see a difference when viewing regular DVDs and the one Blu-Ray.
I belong to a volunteer fansub group which catches raw broadcasts of Japanese anime from Tokyo and convert them with English subtitles. Mostly in MP4 format but sometimes we have do with AVI. A year ago, I had an argument with the encoder that downloaders are idiots and they wouldnt know the difference between BRRIP H264 and XVID/DVD. We have both DVD and BR versions of a “well known” anime in 720P and later released both but deliberately misplaced the format description. The downloaders mostly went for the AVI (described as BRRIP) and later posted it was one heck of a BRRIP. Unless we need thick glasses, we didnt see much difference either. We even had a test that we set up the same reso, sound and audio at the the same rate..without even telling the same person if it is BR, and a good # of them were wrong.
I haven’t taken the Blu-Ray plunge yet. I figure I’ll wait for the next generation of “the latest” to come out, then think about it.
I believe plenty of dvd’s are HD, high definition films as seen on an HD tv, blue ray being a further hd enhanced format.
No surprise. Just like when DVDs first came out many of them were no better quality than VHS because the masters used to press the DVDs were the same ones used for VHS.
That’s also why many movies got released to DVD several times using better or digitally enhanced masters.
I don’t know what meds Mr Cox is taking but it’s powerful stuff. Watching the box set of the BBC Life documentaries on HD and Blu-ray is fantastic and waaaaaay better than standard DVD...especially when I’m lightly toasted.
You also need to have good vision.
Well ... having been on the design team for the blu-ray chips in the Samsung players and having seen literally dozens of comparisons over many different TV models ... I can say with some experience that this person doesn’t know what they are talking about
You can rent Blu-ray for $1.50 at all the red box rental machines. I would do that first and if you desire it forever, then buy it new or used later from Red box IMO.
This is crap. DVDs have gotten worse as they’ve gotten cheaper, and the DVD players are mostly junk. Problem DVDs in the collection (what passes for a DVD collection here at home) play great on the BluRay player. I’ve just upgraded a bit, got one of those short-takeoff kinds, same brand as before (Panasonic).
This is hogwash... Blu ray is exceptionally better than DVD it’s not even close. Most people don’t have the right tv or don’t know what connections to use.
Whoever said you can't tell the difference between 480p DVD and 1080p Blu-ray is full of baloney. Two discs I own--Avatar and Beauty and the Beast Disney animated feature--were bought in editions with both Blu-ray and DVD versions and the jump up in quality to the Blu-ray version is DRAMATIC, with extremely clear colors and astonishing detail in the picture. Beauty and the Beast in Blu-ray is an absolute joy to watch, with background details so sharp it literally pushes right up against the limit of hand-drawn animation.
In short, if you have a 40" or bigger LCD or plasma flat panel TV that does displays 1080p video, it's definitely worth it to go with a Blu-ray player, especially now with the price of Blu-ray players really dropping.
When the vast majority of movies such why would I pay for a blue ray? Higher def won’t make the movies better.