Posted By [C5] Goraq on 02 Oct 2007 1:51 PM Posted By [C5] Myx on 02 Oct 2007 1:31 PM IMHOTBHYARLYKTHXBAI!!!11  pardon, did you sneeze or something @Swifty - The quality of the TV manufacture would be a factor but it would eventually come down to the film in question. A modern film, made with HD digital cameras, would give a better picture and sound quailty on the Blu-ray/HD-DVD format, when compared to its dvd counterpart. Older films that are rereleased on the HD formats have been professionally upscaled in a studio so would have a slightly better quality than there standard dvd counterparts but not as much as the new films as you are limited by the source material. most dvd players now have a progressive scan feature, which simulates the HD upscaling process (by changing how the picture is transmitted from interlaced (alternating lines) to progressive (all lines at once)and keeping the refresh rate the same) but not by much. tbh the real push on HD formats will be when the cost have come down enough to include them in Home theatre kits with either 5.1 or pref 7.1 speakers as Blu-ray and HD-DVD are, unless this can be proven otherwise, the only formats that have the sound encoded to support the 7.1 setup. due to recent announcemnets from certain film studios backing one format over the other (example Transformers will be HD-DVD only/ Simpsons Movie will be blu-ray only) this format war may be with us for a while but with the technology already at this lower price for both formats (don't forget you can pick up the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive for around £110 and it does work on XP (ask ogri) and Vista (ask me)) and that companies such as toshiba and samsung are planning combo players for home users, even this is out for pc's as well from LG
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=632069its becoming more economical day by day to be in a position to have both so i see us having a stalemate like we have with DVD-R and DVD+R
What I meant was, surely more economical to buy in 6 months or whenever the price wars begin, considering the current neglible benefit Blu-ray provides? 'A fool and his money are quickly parted', and all that  |