HD Vs Blue Ray Pictures ?

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Can anyone find any decent pictures to compare blue ray to HD-dvd.

I wondering whether to buy one of those Xbox 360 HD players cause there so cheep and cause i can pick HD films up for as cheep as £3.99 now might give it a whirl.

Just looking for some pictures to see if there loads of difference ?
 
I've not got any pictures but the general consensus is that there is pretty much no noticable difference between the formats as far as picture quality goes.

The problem with HD-DVD is that the format is dying out, so there won't be any new releases, hence the reason the existing discs are cheap. I bought a Toshiba HD-DVD player as it is also a very good DVD upscaler and is region free, the PS3 is for Blu-ray films.

Anyway, if you've got an HD TV then by all means get the Xbox player, but if you're looking for a better overall player thats more future proof, then the PS3 may be the better option.
 
I have like 50 films in HD-DVD for less than £300 including 2 players ! worth it if they are the films you want. To get the same on BR will cost at least £1000 at least.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I have like 50 films in HD-DVD for less than £300 including 2 players ! worth it if they are the films you want. To get the same on BR will cost at least £1000 at least.
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Very true - the cost of BR discs is still high - I only get the BR film if its one I really like or feel its worth the extra - otherwise either HD-DVD if its available or regular DVD upscaled to HD.
 
The 360 add on is pretty ropey, Bluray looks better than HD-DVD on a 360. HD-DVD on a Tosh will give the same PQ and sometimes better (some older blurays were on a worse codec)
 
If you're using the HD-DVD drive with your PC it'll be fine :). You can output via VGA, DVI or HDMI that way. Some Blu-Rays are actually worse quality than HD-DVDs as they use the inferior MPEG2 codec, where as HD-DVD used much more efficient codecs from day one :). The only thing is re-releases on blu-ray may have a higher bitrate than when they were released on HD-DVD due to the extra space on Blu-Rays disks.
 
the standalone HD DVD players are worth a punt, especally if you are after decent upscaling DVD player as well.

Stay away from the 360 addon, is utter tosh, the sound output is crippled, motion is handled very poorly and depending on your 360 you might find the noise of the console spoils your enjoyment during quiet scenes. I sold mine a month after buying it, luckily i only lost a tenner.
 
If audio is also important then that is also a reason to avoid the x360 drive (you cant get hd multichannel from it unless you use one of the new ati 4800 cards)

its worth it for a standalone tosh drive though - especially if you can get all the films you want cheaply (not all are as cheap as £4)

BR is for now and the future which is why its still a little costly
 
you can not just say bluray looks better than hd-dvd. they use the same codecs. if there is a difference between the same film on both formats, then they have been mastered differently and it could go either way. ie, it could look better on hd-dvd. what bluray does have going for it is space, and that means the best picture AND the best audio, something with hd-dvd couldnt achieve. but, thats besides the point because the 360 doesnt support the hd audio codecs i believe?
 
Heres a couple that ive Ripped to 720p
*Blu-Ray*
pocalp3.jpg


*HD-DVD*
formersrk1.jpg
 
why do you have subtitles on?

best comparison would be the same movie in both formats. But it isn't always fair since, it depends on the player (e.g. crappy 360 addon) or the codec used on the disc. Terminator 2 in blu-ray uses mpeg2 but in HD-DVD uses VC-1 for example.

Sony is fixing some discs that they released in the early stages with mpeg2, for example Fifth Element, they released again on a better codec more recently.
 
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no idea on the second pic, but the first pic is from a film called apocalypto, fantastic it is too, but it has no spoken english and is all subtitled anyway :)
 
flamezmack said:
Why not???..I Find it much easier to understand the movies without missing anything they say
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Because it distracts from the actual movie and you miss details and things happening while reading. But that's just my opinion.
The second screen is Transformers
 
Well, even the Mpeg2 encoded blurays dont look to bad, as they have sufficient capacity to get away with the less efficient codec. But it doesnt leave much room for extras. Obviously with H.264, or VC-1 codecs, you can compress a lot more, without any considerable image loss (infact it can be better than the mpeg2), leaving a lot more space for extras.

Personally I dont give a ..... about extras, Im interested in the main feature, plus DTS-MA audio :)

Anyway, Im pretty sure that all "new" blurays will use the more efficient H.264 or VC-1 codecs, and as they have more disk space, and a higher maximum bitrate there is absolutely no reason why a bluray shouldnt outperform HD-DVD for maximum potential image quality. At the end of the day, the quality is dependant on the original source, and the effort spent making the digital masters, and compressing it down to bluray sized files.
 
I had a 360 + HD-DVD drive kept it for a month then ditched it

Got a PS3 and Iam lovin it

Remember if you get a hd-dvd system and it breaks in a years time you are not going to be able to get another hd-dvd player to replace it with and you will have moives with nothing to play them on.
 
I have a PS3 in the living room, hooked up to a Panasonic 37LZD85 and a 360 with HD-DVD hooked up to a Panasonic 32LXD70 in the bedroom.

The picture quality on both is excellent, and I'd say that the 360 add-on is a bargain for what it now costs (£20 or so). The picture quality on the PS3 is better, but then it's hooked up to a better TV. As a DVD upscaler, the PS3 wins hands down, though.
 
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