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video versus audio

Posted by Ole Lund Christensen (M) on February 22, 2008 at 09:43:29

In Reply to: Thanks :-) posted by racerguy on February 21, 2008 at 12:15:03:

I can agree to most of what your write.

Yes, transmitting normal signals and upscaling in display/projector can be the best solution, because it can be optimized to compensate for the display.

And most likely SONY have spent a lot of money on the upscaling in your projector. That projector is the sweet spot of the current market.

I am also puzzled about your and mine NTSC and PAL upscaling experience.
Could it simply be that SONY optimize US products for NTSC and EU products for PAL?

Size versus quality.

Yes, it is tough to get both.

In some ways, the best picture I have seen was my old 27" 4:3 SONY broadcast monitor. PAL worked very well on 27".
The ability to show light reflections sparkle from polished brass was superb.
My current 36" 16:9 SONY tube TV is less good, but have a bigger screen.
Still it is in some ways better than a projector, so I keep it.
But people are doll sized, that is not nice.

All the projectors do even less light, that is why we black out the room, and black resolution become important.

But size is essential for the cinema experience, people should be closer to life size, so I have a projector.

Going from 27" to 100" is 13.7 times more area, so I need 13,7 times more pixels. But full HD only give me about 5 times more pixels more than PAL.

So I do agree, going above 100" is causing too many problems, unless you need to seat many people.

Going to a good cinema, I get far more pixels than Blu ray offer.

Here I also see the same picture problems in some movies, as I do on my own projector, so rest asured, I am not guessing.

I have always said, that hardware investment should follow software investment. I have 40 years of excellent stereo music software, so I spend my money mostly on stereo equipment. Beethovens 9th will never be boring to hear again.

I never saw the point of spending much money on movies with DD sound and DVD picture quality, which I watch 2-3 times.

Due to Blu ray and concerts, I think this will change for me, but I need to build up a software collection, and currently there is only 35 concerts on Blu ray.

Currently I am developing some new stereo amplifiers and active loudspeakers, for the above Euro 200.000 market.
My clients are currently willing to spend much more on stereo, than on HT.
I feel the same way currently.

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