Blu Ray Prices Falling Rapidly

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Zachstar

If you have seen a side by side comparison and see little difference it is because some idiot hooked it up via a composite cable that puts out 480i rather than a decent Component hookup (720p) or HDMI (1080p)

The difference in picture quality is astounding!

Good point, perhaps they did hook it up using the wrong hook up.

[Buddahaid]

I always figured the reason Blu-ray topped HD was they could gouge more money for the discs. I new HD would lose out. Still I buy a few because I hate movie theaters. Obnoxious people, smelly crap food, and freeking sitting through up to thirty minutes of ads and trailers before the show.

Buddahaid

[Stealhead]

Yeah the Bluray if not hooked up in the best manner wont show that much better but when it is hooked up right it is quite clear. Also the sound I find is much better. However I went in to buy Gran Tourino(great flick) the other day and even though I do have a Bluray I did not want to spend $30.00 on it so I bought the widescreen DVD instead. Figured I could use that $10.00 dollars I saved to take my daughter and wife to get ice cream(I am not self centered ******* I know hard to belive in this day and age.).Also a BluRay player is supposed to run a DVD better than a DVD player can but I suspect that is marketing bull****.

I thought there was some diffrence in the storage between the two. i know that is why BETA lost out to VHS. BETA gave a better quality picture but it could only fit so much time and it meant that alot of movies required more than one tape while VHS could store much more so as long as the movie was less than something like 2 1/2 hours it could fit on one VHS tape.
This time around with Bluray and HDDVD there was even some studio backing one format or the other.

[Chad]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

Also a BluRay player is supposed to run a DVD better than a DVD player can but I suspect that is marketing bull****.

I don't think it's marketing b.s. I work at Wal-Mart in electronics and around these products all day, and from what I've read (they don't train us at all, just give us a ring of keys and let us go) is that Blue Ray players Up-Convert normal DVD's to1080p.

Basically, I believe that normal dvd's are infact 720p, and the high defination of a Blu-Ray player converts it up to 1080p.

In that sense then, a Blu-Ray player is a video scaler, which is defined as A video scaler is a device for converting video signals from one size or resolution to another: usually "upscaling" or "upconverting" a video signal from a low resolution (e.g. standard definition) to one of higher resolution (e.g. high definition t.v.).

Here's a link with pictures to help explain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_scaler