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"...HD-DVD just isn't nearly as sharp and clear as blu-ray..."

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oscar

In Reply to: RE: the D-ILA? posted by chris e. on October 25, 2007 at 21:51:55

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).

Edits: 10/26/07

Follow Ups:

Its the Xbox add-on in his case - Jack G 06:58:45 10/26/07 (3)
Its pretty much a POS.
Jack
- perhaps, but I saw the same softness with a Toshiba player - chris e. 19:19:14 10/30/07 (1)
  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.
  - End of Days is pretty bad - Jack G 06:07:32 11/02/07 (0)
    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
- You are probably right. The PS3 is actually a very good Blu-ray player. nt - oscar 07:09:19 10/26/07 (0)
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