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.

[elwaylite]

This is crap. I love to read the posts where guys state that upconverted dvd's look HD to them. Id love to see what HD they are watching, Maybe A&E or TNTHD.

Put the Crank BR in against the Crank DVD.

Done.

[supersix4]

I dunno I did POTC dead mans chest on dvd then blu-ray MEGA improvement .... I agree maybe between a super upscaled dvd and hdud there isnt a difference ... but of all the dvds I own every one looks better than its dvd counter-part ... and by the way isnt that all hdud is , lol is a super upscaled dvd lol

[gvortex7]

I don't care how good the Realta HQV chips are, an upscaled dvd does not look like high definition video.

[Iceman_II]

I agree, this is a load of garbage. The data is the data... you simply can not take x lines of resolution, and magically make it into 2X.

I love how tests like this can be touted as "scientific proof" when in reality, they are so easy to "fix" it is ridiculous.

If they were double blinding, with the monitor randomly selected each time for each player, it may have a bit more credibility... just maybe. But it seems to me that it would be so easy for a person running the test, to, shall we say, adjust the monitor to give them a bit more "reliable" result.