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Nope....I'd like to but I'm not buying one of each.

Posted by oscar (A) on July 17, 2007 at 05:26:53

In Reply to: Oscar, I'm just curious: have you done any side by side comparisons of films released on both formats? posted by Audiophilander on July 16, 2007 at 21:35:16:

A couple of friends and I did a brief survey of select HD DVDs and Blu-Ray movies on a 126" screen because they were asking the same questions. It seems they noticed more subtle "motion blurring" with HD-DVD (relatively low bitrate VC-1 encodes) than with the Blu-Ray (relatively higher bitrate video encodes (AVC and/or MPEG2?). (Of course, both of them already have a bias against all things Microshaft). It could have been a setup issue, though I don't see how (same dual format player/display). More likely, it was the movie selection; at the time, I did not have the "reference demo disc" "King Kong"; we were making do with the likes of "Children of Men", "Good Shepherd" and "Batman Begins" . Nevertheless, I saw reason to believe we can do better than today's low bit rate VC1 encodes. Hmmm... I just checked two of those titles are Universal which hasn't been exactly rocking the HD video world with excellent video transfers.

In theory, you'll notice more artifacts with lower bitrate encodes, everything else being equal. In practice, it's debatable whether or not anyone will notice those differences. Some apparently have with AVC/VC1 Blu-Ray/HD-DVD shootouts with the same movie (Flags of Our Father?) with possibly biased Blu-ray fanboys giving the Blu-Ray version the edge, but you'd have to dig up the threads on these subjects (AVSforum, Highdefdigest, etc). Now if someone cares to loan me an HD-DVD copy of "Flags of Our Father" or "Letters from Iwo Jima"......

Of course, the closer I look for video issues, the less I enjoy the movies... And they all have video issues, I want the video masters and the player to play them.

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