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In Reply to: RE: Now with a true 1080p projector (JVC), I can appreciate the super quality of... posted by clarkjohnsen on October 24, 2007 at 11:40:17
I ended up going with a Sharp Z21000 DLP that does 1080p but was really tempted by the JVC. No question, however, you want to get that PS3 and play some blu-rays -- they are stunning on a 1080p projector. (I run a PS3 for blu-ray and an XBOX w/HD-DVD player for that other format...and to be honest, HD-DVD just isn't nearly as sharp and clear as blu-ray although this may be tied to my players -- both game machines).
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or it's the movies you were watching... I.e. Another way of looking at it is: In general, the production values of studios releasing Blu-ray is typically higher than that of studios releasing HD DVD disks. This is how I interpret the arguments that the picture "softness" seen on HD DVD is in the master or in indifferent video encoding, not a result of HD DVD's typically lower video bitrates.I'll blame the shoddy picture quality of early Blu-ray titles to growing pains learning how to execute video encodes to take full advantage of HD media (that and the early use of MPEG-2 encoding).
Its pretty much a POS.
Jack
I watched clips from batman begins, end of days and matrix revolutions on a Toshiba dedicated player and found the same softness (and this was projected using the JVC D-ILA projector).
Now what I can't tell you is if the problem lies in the studios producing the discs -- what one of the other posters mentioned. If the HD DVD studios just aren't doing as good of a job as the blu-ray folks.
That said, I do find the audio on HD DVD to be more enveloping than for blu-ray so there are trade-offs (albeit, minor differences in both cases).
By the way, the add-on HD DVD box on the xbox really doesn't produce all that different a picture than the Toshiba dedicated player so I'm not sure I'd characterize it so poorly as you suggest. That said, it is (the add on player) very noisy when it plays.
Others have commented on softness of Batman. There are just as many mediocre BD titles as well.
Here's a few HD DVDs that people generally consider quite good (PQ-wise):
Corpse Bride
Transformers
Chronicles of Riddick
Hot Fuzz (haven't seen it)
TMMT (haven't seen it)
Unfortunately, for both formats, not every release is stellar.
Jack
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