Recent Comments:
NEC ships dual-format Blu-ray / HD DVD chip {Engadget}
Oct 11th 2006 12:44AM I like the fact that we may at some point get to use EITHER format. I would really like to have a HD-capable movie playback player. My current bent is toward Blu-Ray, but if one studio only goes with one format, I don't want to have to suffer by not getting that movie. Despite what some people have said about current standard DVDs... I can EASILY tell the difference between upscaled DVDs and true HDTV. On bigger screens, I can fairly easily tell the difference between the different HDTV formats. In live action (as opposed to animation), look at the facial textures. Except for extremely rare instances, you will never see normal skin pores on an actor's face in standard DVD, yet it is quite common in HDTV. Granted, many older films have a lot of film grain, to soften the picture, but most newer films you can see this. Unfortunately, this also makes picking out CG in live action films standout as well. I can clearly see edges between an actor and false background around them. As my job allows for me to waste time ona regular basis, I tend to visit many home theater stores. I don't know what the movie was that was showing, but the best quality video I've seen of a movie was playing on a Samsung BD player on a Sony 60" SXRD, that was connected via the HDMI... it made me want to go buy a MegaMillions lottery ticket. (Although if I had all the right numbers, I'd actually be looking at getting the Sony SRX-R110 projector.)
HDBeat Podcast 001 - 02.17.06 {Engadget HD}
Feb 18th 2006 1:34AM I was wondering why every once in a while I heard digital audio artifact during the podcast. It was just a little distracting.
