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Range Rover Blues:
PS3, £180 :D :D :D :D :D

But I have to say that TBH it's not worth it, Blue ray I mean.

We bought Harry Potter on Blue ray, and even though I spent more time watching the effects than the film, I couldn't tell the difference.

If you get a decent DVD player with composite ouotput then you have 720 lines or whatever, the baseline standard for HD-TV and that's what I use, so when I wheel out the PS3 and play 1080 lines progressive, little or no difference.

Of course the best picture is supposed to be achievable when all you system shares what's called native resolution, ie the DVD, the player and the TV are all 1080 progressive.

So is this really the end of HD-DVD then, is no-one making the players anymore? ( I heard that Y-BOXs were going to get built-in HD drives soon).

Good news for me though is how cheap DVDs have become, I'd love to buy blue ray as they are only about £18 each, but I wanted Ratatuilli and couldn't find it anywhere on Blue Ray.  Found it in Tesco for £8 on DVD though :D



P.S., I heard a rumour that the, shall we say "adult" movie industry had thrown in behind HD-DVD, mainly on the grounds of cost, and they were a large influence on the success of VHS last time around :-'

Thrasher:

--- Quote ---P.S., I heard a rumour that the, shall we say "adult" movie industry had thrown in behind HD-DVD, mainly on the grounds of cost, and they were a large influence on the success of VHS last time around
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This is quite true (on both counts) - however the advent of P2P sharing has also had a large affect on the industry - i.e. VHS was easier to copy than Betamax back then - not an issue in the current climate - you can rip *any* format, all you need is time.

laser_jock99:

--- Quote from: Range Rover Blues on February 20, 2008, 05:04:54 ---PS3, £180 :D :D :D :D :D

But I have to say that TBH it's not worth it, Blue ray I mean.

We bought Harry Potter on Blue ray, and even though I spent more time watching the effects than the film, I couldn't tell the difference.

If you get a decent DVD player with composite ouotput then you have 720 lines or whatever, the baseline standard for HD-TV and that's what I use, so when I wheel out the PS3 and play 1080 lines progressive, little or no difference.


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Blu-ray is pointless on 32" or smaller screens. It's only on the bigger 1080P sets it really comes into it's own. Sadly my projector can only deal with 780 vertical lines- I bet a 1080P projector would be the dogs danglies!!

Range Rover Blues:
Thanks to my insurance I had "help" with the cost of a 46" LCD 1080progressive Samsung TV.  It's mint but I still struggle to tell the difference between normal DVD played via RGB"composite" leads and blue ray disks from the PS3 via HD lead (and it's a good lead).

And you're right, the conventionla wisdom seesm to be that anything about 720 lines is wasted in 37" or below, so Blue Ray is pointless given that RGB should give you 720 lines.

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