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Topic: Anyone consuming HD or Blu-ray?
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Scott Jentsch
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1061
From: New Berlin, WI, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 11-26-2007 01:38 PM
quote: Frank Dubrois
I think that there is a lot of overthinking going on. Just look at the picture and if you like it, buy the unit. Who gives a crap the numbers don't come out. If your looking for an ultimate player that does every mathmatical conversion known to man and out puts a 50000p just to impress your friends and tell them that you have the ultimate machine, then fine. Most people care about a good looking picture, period. Soemtimes "Good Enough" really is "Good Enough".
I agree.
There is a point where a person's discernibility is stunted by their experience, which explains why some people can see a badly done image on the screen and not stand to look at it, while the next person can't see anything wrong.
This has been my experience with HD as well. At first, all HD looked great because it was noticeably better than SD. After a while, though, you begin to be able discern poorly produced programs if you've seen enough well-done ones.
Some people can't tell the difference between SD DVD and HD DVD right away. They are so used to DVD, that the higher quality (even though it has 6x the resolution) isn't immediately apparent to them. What I tell them, though, is that once you become accustomed to HD, DVD is still acceptable, but it's no longer as good as you will want it to be.
Where the tolerance is between acceptable and not acceptable is the grounds for debates such as the one between 1080i and 1080p, SD vs. HD, film vs. digital projection, etc.
I have owned an HD DVD player since October 2006 and I whole-heartedly recommend buying one to anyone that has an HD display, whether it is 720 or 1080 capable.
Looking at the specs of this stuff only takes you so far in appreciating the quality that it provides over broadcast HD and SD DVD. For ~$200, buy one for yourself and sit down and enjoy some great quality video and audio!
I intend to purchase a Blu-ray player when they produce one that is capable of supporting the specs announced (Profile 2.0/BD-Live), that can be controlled by IR remote (no PS3 for me), and for less than $400. That way, I don't have to be concerned about which format a movie has been released on, I can just sit back and enjoy it.
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Scott Jentsch
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1061
From: New Berlin, WI, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 11-28-2007 02:35 PM
Since the Samsung 1400 seems to be shaping up to be not worth its scrap price, I've done some looking around to see what people are liking the most.
Besides the 80GB Playstation 3, which is the best contender for future-proofing (although Sony has yet to commit to a Profile 1.1 upgrade, much less 2.0), the Panasonic players (DMP-BD30K and DMP-BD10AK) seem to be getting the most praise.
They all have their trade-offs, though, so if one is looking for the best bang for the buck, you have to choose which features are a priority, since none of them seem to have figured out how to provide them all (at any price).
Maybe Samsung's universal player will be the one, but I'm not holding my breath. I've not been impressed with their DVD players, and their Blu-ray players don't seem to be up to par (their first generation model was whacked solidly by reviewers for bad PQ), so there's not much reason to hope that their universal player will be any better.
In the meantime, I've been enjoying my HD DVD players immensely! I have Ocean's Thirteen and Shrek the Third from Netflix right now, and Harry Potter and Bourne Ultimatum are right around the corner!
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Frank Dubrois
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 896
From: Cleveland, OH
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted 11-28-2007 08:36 PM
Samsungs new duo player will be 1.1 compatible. It is also supposed to have the HQV chip in it for better SD DVD picture. The problem so far is that Samsung doesn't have a 1.1 standard player out yet. If you want better SD DVD pictures, you have to buy a Samsung 1200. If you want better sound options, you have to buy the Samsung 1400. The new duo player will provide both features, along with a second video and audio decoder and HD-DVD playback. At $799, you really can't go wrong. It's a lot of cash, but look at what you get. The 1400 was a bust. The firmware upgrades helped, but not to the point of perfection. No firmware update in the world will give you 1.1 compatibility. In the next couple weeks, the new duo player should be available for purchase. I will be picking one up. I STILL haven't opened my 1400 yet. I may, I may not. Either way I can still return it for the duo player, but I don't want to waste my time and sour my opinion of Blu-Ray.
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