Video Asylum

Posted by oscar (A) on July 11, 2007 at 21:15:15

In Reply to: RE: Troy DC on DVD, HD-DVD, and . . . . blu-ray posted by townsend on July 09, 2007 at 13:40:26

The original "300" HD-DVD got mixed reviews for Picture quality and I expect a Director's cut with an extra 30 minutes would provide an even bigger challenge when trying to juggle around storage capacity and bandwidth limitations. OTOH, there's been some "lessons learned" in VC-1 compression techniques since the last "300" release which might make this effort a tad bit better. We shall see.

Given the levels of compression required to get from the Master video tape (1-2Gbs to 10-40 Mbs to either HD-DVD/Blu-Ray, I'm not convinced either format will give me a HD video presentation "perceivably transparent" to the Master tape. Is there a threshold which can perceptibly separate HD-DVD from Blu-Ray because of the Blu-Ray's "technical superiority" in storage and bandwidth ? The jury is still out in IMHO though it appears to me AQ via uncompressed PCM gives Blu-Ray an immediately perceptible sonic edge.

And yeah, I'll continue to point out that what might be "good enough" for HD-DVD is not a convincing argument to NOT want Blu-ray to win just because there isn't convincing (damning ?) evidence (yet) to suggest Blu-ray's superior specs are manifested in general WRT PQ.