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In Reply to: I'm not buying into either one. posted by Dalton on February 11, 2007 at 12:10:38:
I have a Playstation 3 and an Oppos DVD player, and a 60" 720P set.The PS3 Blu-ray kicks butt over the Oppos any day. All you hear about is the resolution difference, but there are other advances in technology that are just as significant and make the new formats worthwile.
There is the resolution that on my set looks like the best Over the Air HDTV signal (I run the PS3 as 1080i on movies), this is a significant jump from the Oppos. Motion is much better with Blu-ray, as the picture is so seamless and smooth moving compared to DVD. And the best thing is color. Blu-ray displays many more colors than DVD. The tonal palette has been expanded, and bright primary colors are more intense, and there are more subtle colors, so many more shades of blue in sky, more kinds of natural greens in a forest, more detail in shadows.
Soundwise, on a good Bu-ray disk, there is no comparison either. The DVD has audible compression artifacts on dynamics (you don't hear it until you hear something better), and sounds just altogether rougher. But some Blu-ray discs sound better than others, since there are so many different ways of storing the audio, some (mostly the very first releases) sound worse than the Oppos. But, for instance, The Brothers Grimm, has a lossless audio track you can select, and this sound will blow you away. So when the producers figure out the audio on Blu-ray, I think most movies will sound gorgeous.
Netflix carries both Blu-ray and HD-DVD, and there are a LOT of Blu-ray movies to choose from, though the movies released are not the best selections, but I expect that to change fairly quickly. So I am not replacing my DVDs, just enjoying all the Blu-ray discs for no more money.
I had some friends over last night and we watched "Running with Scissors" on Blu-Ray and it was a treat. There are a bunch of songs played in the movie, and I am pretty sure that the sound quality coming through the movie was way better than my CDs could produce. That's just not true for a DVD player. My friends, who are not audiophiles, but know my system really well, spoke up during the movie and commented on how great all those old songs sounded.
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- Re: I'm not buying into either one. - Tuckers 12:48:48 02/11/07 (1)
- Re: I'm not buying into either one. - Dalton 13:06:09 02/11/07 (0)
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