Image Quality of BDs vs HD-DVDs: DVDfile.com Article

[The Shrike]

I don't visit DVDfile at all anymore really (comparing video pirates to terrorists proved too much for me to take), but I just checked in and found this really nice article. A very articulate, well researched report on what seems to be proof that BD's tech advantages has made an impact on image quality, in the postive of course. I reccommend this article highly, though DVDfile will sucker punch you in the gut with craziness every now and then. Hope someone finds this interesting.

[CptGreedle]

That is a great article. I never thought to analyze the reviews like that. It only goes to show that BD is better, period!

[tiger roach]

Too bad there is no posting on AVS forum today.

[The Shrike]

Originally Posted by CptGreedle

That is a great article. I never thought to analyze the reviews like that. It only goes to show that BD is better, period!

Kinda.

[The Shrike]

Originally Posted by tiger roach

Too bad there is no posting on AVS forum today.

BTW, while I've got you here, tiger roach, I sent you a PM a while back, and got no response.

[dobyblue]

Originally Posted by CptGreedle

That is a great article. I never thought to analyze the reviews like that. It only goes to show that BD is better, period!

Why would you need to when I do it for everyone on a monthly basis?



HDD 279HD/303BD, HTS 251HD/270BD, HTF 104HD/107BD, UD 150HD/133BD, Talk 306HD/322BD
10.31.07

HD DVD	 PQ 	 SQ 	 TOTAL 		Blu-ray	 PQ 	 SQ 	 TOTAL 
HighDef	 3.88 	 3.61 	 3.74 		HighDef	 3.94 	 3.81 	 3.87 
HTSpot	 3.96 	 3.88 	 3.92 		HTSpot	 4.09 	 4.28 	 4.18 
DVDTalk	 3.63 	 3.50 	 3.56 		DVDTalk	 3.69 	 3.74 	 3.71 
HTForum	 3.89 	 3.68 	 3.78 		HTForum	 4.25 	 4.04 	 4.14 
UpDisc	 3.98 	 3.80 	 3.89 		UpDisc	 4.03 	 4.12 	 4.07 
Totals	 3.84 	 3.67 	 3.76 		Totals	 3.94	 3.96 	 3.95 

I also analyzed the codecs back with the April numbers and showed the following:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...7#post10629927

Originally Posted by dobyblue refuting rdjam with facts

If you include ALL the scored Blu-ray reviews from High Def Digest, Home Theater Spot, Home Theater Forum, DVD Talk and Upcoming discs, including all the MPEG-2 releases from the first few months of Blu-ray's launch, and include titles that never even got released like the 1 star rated Robocop, you get the following figures.

Keep in mind several titles have 5 reviews here, so this is not refelctive of how many titles there actually are on Blu-ray.

Of 680 reviews: 431 MPEG-2, 125 AVC/MPEG-4, 124 VC-1
Average star rating

1) 4.22 stars AVC/MPEG-4
2) 3.94 stars VC-1
3) 3.78 stars MPEG-2

Why is VC-1 so much better? You've got me there! I really don't know.

I sent Dan a copy of my spreadsheet to have some additional numbers to work with for his article.

That article was posted by myself on AVS and caused a lot of trouble:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=928758

[Wet1]

Originally Posted by tiger roach

Too bad there is no posting on AVS forum today.

I'm sure this will make its way back to AVS in time!

[dobyblue]

Originally Posted by Wet1

I'm sure this will make its way back to AVS in time!

Read post just above yours - thread about this already exists there.