Upconversion will never be as good as real HD source material. It's no different than watching standard definition channels on an HDTV instead of HD channels. No matter how good your scaler is (either in the TV or the DVD player) it still has to make a mathetmatical guess at the way to fill in the missing pixel data. Even from 480i to 720p you're talking 3 times the resolution and a proper de-interlacing. That's a lot to ask.
By the way, I never pay $30 for new bluray movies. That's nuts. I usually pay between $19 and $24, and that includes new releases.
ejstrup
30 is nuts?! you americans are so f**king lucky! Blu-Rays are $50-$55 here! Gotta love Amazon !
Upconversion will never be as good as real HD source material. It's no different than watching standard definition channels on an HDTV instead of HD channels. No matter how good your scaler is (either in the TV or the DVD player) it still has to make a mathetmatical guess at the way to fill in the missing pixel data. Even from 480i to 720p you're talking 3 times the resolution and a proper de-interlacing. That's a lot to ask.
By the way, I never pay $30 for new bluray movies. That's nuts. I usually pay between $19 and $24, and that includes new releases.
[QUOTE="Riot429"]Well. I think this is terrible. I plan on getting a PS3 soon and I am going to buy a HD-DVD player soon. It is just kind of ticking me off that I will have to switch back and forth to different players every time I want to watch a movie in HD that is Exclusively on one format. I think what Sony needs to focus on is getting people besides Sony Motion Pictures to release on the Blu-Ray format. I was up at Wal-Mart today and saw all the current Blu-Ray movies. GI Jane? Are you kidding me. Who really wants to buy that. That is like releasing Cat Woman on Blu-Ray. Who is going to buy that? I remember BetaMax and VHS. I had bolth. BetaMax had better quilty but VHS had the support. Right now. Sony = BetaMax not many people are supporting blu-ray becuase of the near failed UMD format. HD DVD = VHS, It has the support from Major companies. Honestly think, People are so famlair with the word DVD now. Which format do you think they will chose? They will see a Blu-Ray player and be like WTF is Blu-Ray? I just hope that sony can pull this off.m3Boarder32
What are you talking about? Every major studio except Universal supports Blu-Ray, they're the one that's keeping this format war from being declared officially over. Sony not only has their studios but also has Fox and Disney backing them exclusively as well as the PC industry on their side, everyone's just waiting for HD-DVD to die while Universal is barely keeping them on life support. Also, to those that say that HD-DVD is outselling Blu-Ray in Europe I would like to remind you that they were outselling them here in the US until the PS3 launched and now that there's roughly 900k more potential Blu-Ray customers over there where do you think sales are going to go from here on out?
So there are like 1 million more BD players then HD-DVD players in the U.S. Market, yet only about 100K more BD movies have been sold?
I think you're seriously discounting the fact that Bluray's movie selection really didn't hit a real stride until the end of 2006. That's a hell of a head start for HD-DVD.
Sony has announced that it made a third quarter operating LOSS of $443 MILLION. Does that number scared you?
CyanX73
I'm no Sony exec but I'm guessing that's a drop in the bucket for them. I doubt they even posted an overall loss for the company this quarter. Sony hasn't posted in overall loss in several years. Even so, Sony has $90 Billion in assets. It would take a lot to bring them down.
Comparing a piece of machinery to a sports team is silly. A sports team represents civic pride, an athletic competition, and various other things that are meant to earn and thrive off of your support. Being a "fan" of the PS3 is no different than being a "fan" of a toaster or a can opener. It's a piece of machinery meant to fulfill a specific purpose, in this case entertainment. That's it. Unless of course you actually are a fan of your toaster and you taunt people at Target for buying a two-slice Cuisinart instead of a four-slice stainless steel Kitchenaid that also browns bagels.
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