Does Blu-ray video look better then HD DVD video?

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Originally Posted by richteer

For suitable values of "similar", perhaps. I've compared upscaled DVDs with their Blu counterparts on my PS3. Even on a 32" 1080p display from ~12' away the difference was striking (I'm thinking specifically of The Fifth Element).

And it seems, rather amusingly, my point was lost. Oh well.

Thought it was obvious with the vinyl remark, might have to make it blount.

Compare a 10mbps encode to a 20 mbps encode. Compare a 20mbps encode to a 40 mbps encode.

They do have a tendancy of looking a bit different, neh?

We've established that apparantly a 20 mbps encode is noticably different than a 10 mbps encode. What's in the air is what difference a 40 mbps encode makes over a 20 mbps.

Unless, of course, the premise is that the 20mbps is the upper-band of what the human eye can see 'in motion' for a 1080p image (in which case, I pose the question why did we ever go past 35mm film for movies, but hey whatever .