blu-ray dvds - Page 2

 

 

 

Yup. Viewing distance is plays a big part. If you watch from very far away, obviously you need bigger screen to appreciate the bluray discs added resolution.

 

 

In overall, DVDs are limited to 720x480 resolution, resolution meaning from how many dots the picture is drawn from. Upscaling DVD-players are bit meaningless and overhyped as it cannot add detail to source where there is none, but their scaling algorithms are better than LCD TVs, you avoid blurring they usually cause due to LCDs locked native resolution. CRTs didnt have this problem and DVDs always looked sharp, as the resolution could change depending the source.

 

 

Bluray is 1920x1080 (1080p). The sharpness and detail on a good bluray release has is astonishing, picture is like "a postcard". However, mostly only new movies make full use of this. Older movies suffer from grain and whatever, and their resolution are not great to begin with. Older movies on bluray can look great, but not directly because of added resolution but because remastering, carefull sharpening, blurring, saturating and contrast enhancing and so on. But improvement over well mastered DVDs are not that great.

 

On person wondering about suckiness of LOTR Bluray, I guess they most likely rushed the remastering process. Sometimes too much blur, sometimes too much sharpening and so on... Overall its not a very good movie to evaluate Bluray, not until they remaster it again (hopefully this time with extended edition for gods sake!)

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/2313/lordringstrilogy.html

Edited by MaZa - 8/16/10 at 9:58am

the LOTR blurays are a simple matter of them getting lazy and using existing old masters

 

and really it's the first movie that suffers the most...

They can do whatever they want to lord of the rings, as long as the James Bond movies look great. Last night I watched Dr No on my 120 inch projection system and it looked better than it did when I saw it in a theater as a kid. The only thing that sucked was the dummied up 5:1 sound. The balances were all off. Thankfully, they included the original mono mix.

So far, I'm pleased with all the bluerays I've sampled except Sleeping Beauty. The Criterion version of Fritz Lang's M wasn't that different from the recent DVD release, but for a great film like that, any incremental improvement is welcome. I'm looking forward to getting American in Paris and The Red Shoes in the mail this week. Those two should be spectacular. I wish they had the three That's Entertainment movies on blueray.