Blu-ray versus HD DVD? How about neither?

[Banjo]

Blu-ray versus HD-DVD? How about neither?

Malcolm said he recently went to a show where a company showed him a scaled DVD movie playing side by side with an HD-DVD machine. They were holding a contest on two 1080p 50-inch TVs to see who could identify the image and the right player. Malcolm said about half of the people were guessing wrong. That’s because the DVD image was scaled up by the Realta HQV image processing chip from Silicon Optix. That chip makes a huge difference in quality, Malcolm said.

Malcolm looked for artifacts and saw them on both screens. Then he said he was able to guess right because he remembered that the Realta was able to clean up flaws in images related to dirt on the spinning disk. When he saw a piece of dirt (a speck, really) on one screen and didn’t see it on the other, he knew which had the scaled DVD image. He was right.

The point is that at this high end, the quality of DVDs can be better.

http://www.mercextra.com/blogs/takah...about-neither/

I'm going to take a guess and say that they used 'Superman Returns' to run this so-called test.