| kingofwale said:
let's be fair, if you can't tell the difference between a naive 1080P movie.. vs 480P upscaled DVD.. there isn't much I can say. |
Many people who claim to know the difference can't really tell the difference either. Yes most people can tell the difference whenplyaing side by side in the same video as a demo but when the video is by itself and without a reference many people including the ones who say the can tell think the 480P upscaled is in fact 1080P.
That said Twestern the difference is very apparant at the same time especially for things such as blinds, text, minor facial difference. there is also the advantage of more codecs(VC-1,AVC(H.264), and even MPEG-2 among others). Blu Rays also allow for higher bitrates whichmeans things like less artificating and other flaws due to overcompression.
If you have a blu ray player and the TV to watch it on and do not intend on lending your collection out at least for now go ahead and by the Blu Ray version for mvies you don't own yet. COnverting is a different collection....Do you have to buy the same movie twice....only if you really care about video quality which I don't think you do.
