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Quote: Originally Posted by dfiler Only 5 to 10 percent of blu-ray are worthy of 1080p? You might as well be saying the sky is green. You sound surprised. Now, remove animation films from the list and you'll get less than 5% worthy of 10…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht Sure but my tvs all do 1:1 pixel mapping so no overscans. , I don't bother running VE any more and frankly I watch a lot of SD netflix. I know for me convenience trumps PQ 99% of the time. I buy BR with d…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht All else being equal then upscaled 720 will always be softer than 1080. This may be a trade you are willing to make fir whatever reason but you cannot claim it is invisible. "just fine" is dependent on who's defin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht Depends on what you're used to watching. Upscaled 720p should have a softer image aka loss of image detail. I don't think this requires golden eyes...side by side I think many folks can tell. I may not be able to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin If you are into buying DVDs, it makes sense to future-proof your purchases and go for Blu-Ray now instead of continuing to stock up on SD media. It is hard to conceive general consumers future-proofing on …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Patranus I couldn't care less about "sharpness" rather I care A LOT about microblocking, something very common on streaming even with the fastest of connections. (Microblocking is nonexistent for the most part on …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning commercial movies don't come on dvd writable disc, so that price doesn't matter. At the end of the day, your perception of quality, and mine differ, if you can are happy with a low quality video upscaled th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning Using your logic, why aren't we just using VCD for everything? It scales as well. Because DVD writable disc price is low as CD writable disc. Did you not know that? I bet you also don't know that most pe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by dfiler lol. That reply reads like it was written by a team of lawyers. Are you really trying to prove me wrong about something? Perhaps more charts and graphs are needed to prove that we don't understand pixels. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning You guys really need to stop reading from the same incorrect "spec" sheet. If you have a 37" monitor, and you are sitting 60cm from it and can't notice a difference between 720p and 1080p then you need to g…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning They are still images, you have selected them on purpose to prove a point. Video is meant to be watched moving, not inspecting a single image for the best clarity. Well, in the course of viewing 24 of th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by emacs72 i have an opinion of DD+ but we don't need yet another subthread i would like to know, however, if anyone reading this knows which films on Blu-ray have the DD+ audio track. in my library of about 20 discs…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning No, I think you will find you are wrong. Go lookup DD+, then lookup TrueHD and DTS-HDMA, DD+ is not a HD format, it is an enhanced format. you can learn about it from dolby. http://www.dolby.com/con…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning While Dolby Digital Plus is an advancement over DD, it is not HD audio, and shouldn't be confused with HD audio. I think you will find movies that contain HD audio formats like DTS-HDMA or TrueHD have a sligh…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning If you have downgraded your 40GB movie to 16GB is it really high bitrate anymore? And don't forget audio, the vast majority of these Blu-ray movies have HD audio as well. Out of 40GB, about 15-20GB is v…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Frank777 People, it's January 2nd. If you want to continue this decade-long tradition, someone needs to start a 2011 thread. My suggestion for this year's name is Blu-Ray vs The Internet [2011]. Just my 2¢. I …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cory Bauer Thanks Steve Jobs Blu-Ray is available in RedBox kiosks in the smallest of rural American towns; so much for it going the way of those elusive CD-replacement formats. Blu-ray players are showing up in h…
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Just to wrap up on the BD progress against all other formats, it's not winning anything anytime soon. I finally did get a standaone BD player to support 3D, Panasonic BDT300, and it is still very sluggish to start up BD movies. It's really qui…
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Sounds like a winner. AMD needs company like Apple to make APU look glorified. I would like to buy new macs with AMD inside. Perhaps, apple computers will become even more affordable.
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Quote: Originally Posted by emacs72 yes. physical media will be around for quite some time. inexpensive and reliable high speed connectivity to the Internet is not as ubiquitous as some people like to believe. one of the most connected count…