DVDFILE - Analysis shows Blu-ray better

[alain turgeon]

Im have to agree with dan ramer on this.Lately i was wondering if that was just me but the more i look at hd the more i see that avc and even mpeg 2 at high bitrate looks sharper than vc-1. The first time i notice this was at my local Future Shop. They had set up an hd-dvd player and a blu-ray player on 2 identical displays and they were showing MI3. Though i found the color to be about the same the blu-ray was looking sharper to me. And that was the was the first Samsung player without any fimware update.VC-1 to my eyes looks good but it seems many times like a camera that is a little bit out of focus.Anyone sees that?

[Xerious]

Originally Posted by alain turgeon

Im have to agree with dan ramer on this.Lately i was wondering if that was just me but the more i look at hd the more i see that avc and even mpeg 2 at high bitrate looks sharper than vc-1. The first time i notice this was at my local Future Shop. They had set up an hd-dvd player and a blu-ray player on 2 identical displays and they were showing MI3. Though i found the color to be about the same the blu-ray was looking sharper to me. And that was the was the first Samsung player without any fimware update.VC-1 to my eyes looks good but it seems many times like a camera that is a little bit out of focus.Anyone sees that?

never use store displays for reference material... they are out of box, set to the brightest possible and are rarely if ever calibrated for in home experience.

[gandley]

well universal titles are clear example of HD-DVD quality going down. the more titles hd-dvd have pushed the more quality has dropped.
It was fine and dandy for the first few months when they had time to prep and tweak those vc-1 encodes, but know they dont have that luxary.

Clearly blu ray has got better and better, and with AVC doing such a fine job it can only aid blu rays assention.

[alain turgeon]

Originally Posted by Xerious

never use store displays for reference material... they are out of box, set to the brightest possible and are rarely if ever calibrated for in home experience.

I know that but since the 2 sets had the same calibration i think my observation is valid.

[MacDaddyOJack]

This article has been updated to reflect the moving average of many of the big-name review sites on the web. The original author was far less than crazy as the numbers he found clearly support Blu as the victor in this war with HD!!

http://www.dvdfile.com/index.php?opt...6326&Itemid=11

Definitely worth a read (or re-read!)