Is there a side by side comparison of blu-ray and HD pictures?

[glen]

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[glen]

?

 

[mad0maxx]

Yes, but it was so long ago I can not think where to find it anymore.

 

[mrrman]

Ive gone to BB and saw it live..HD looked far better IMO

 

[pennylane]

It's hard to compare them unless there's a movie that comes out in both formats. Otherwise it could be due to the master and not the compressed version. Overall, HD-DVD may have looked better in the past because of the compression codec it uses. A lot of Blu-Ray movies have been using the (inferior) MPEG-2 codec and has just started to use the better AVC and VC-1 codecs. Blu-Ray has started to look better and on-par with HD-DVD recently.

I don't have comparison screenshots, but here are some reviews of movies that have come out on both formats:

Nine Inch Nails: Beside You In Time
The Departed
Scooby Doo
Lady In The Water

Those are just recent reviews and all 4 have picture quality about identical between Blu-Ray. I'm pretty sure that that's been the case in recent months. I picked those movies just because they all had both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD versions reviewed from that website (which is a reliable one).

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: mrrman
Ive gone to BB and saw it live..HD looked far better IMO

Going to BB is actually one of the worst things you can do in a situation like this.

You have to worry about what type of TV each is displayed on, what cables they're using, and the calibration of the TV itself. Not to mention like fanerman said with whether or not the BR movie you're watching is using the older codec as opposed to AVC and VC-1.

If you have any reputable HT stores in your area, that'd be your best bet.

 

[GregGreen]

Not speaking from personal experience disclaimer: if using the same codecs, bitrates, and transfers (which is technically possible) they should look the same...............

 

[Shadowknight]

It might help if Circuit City and Best Buy actually A) had HD-DVD players were you're likely to see them, and B) had a display showing movies. Despite being cheaper, and equal or possibly better image quality, a lot of people have never even heard of it, because Toshiba's too lazy to do any marketing whatsoever.

 

[mzkhadir]

http://www.highdefdigest.com/

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: mrrman
Ive gone to BB and saw it live..HD looked far better IMO

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