HappySqurriel on 29 September 2008
| Uraeus said: Everytime I hear someone claim that 'there is only a small difference in image quality between DVD and Blu-Ray moveis' I can't help but wonder if these people either haven't actually seen a proper comparison or if their exposure to Blu-Ray was based on an old movie or a bad screen/projector. The detail level of a modern movie on Blu-Ray and on DVD is so screamingly clear that anyone who has watched Blu-Rays for a while feel they entered blur world when they are shown SD resolution media. But sure, when the studios release old movies which was recorded onto film back in the day and try to turn it into a Blu-Ray movie it do often not improve much over the DVD version or in some cases looks worse due to blemishes on the recorded film actually becoming more visible on the Blu-Ray version. So I suggest people do what I do. Keep your old collection on DVD and get new movies on Blu-Ray. Also remember that you do not always need to buy, renting is also possible and much cheaper if its a 'see once' movie. |
1080p is (roughly) 2.5 megapixels, 35mm film is (roughly) 12 megapixels ... In other words, old movies have far more detail than Blu-Ray could ever dream of displaying.
On top of that, it is not (necessarily) that people can not see the difference between upscaled DVD and 1080p video but that they really don't care about the difference. I have walked into many people's homes who still use a VCR regularly, typically recording their TV shows in the 6 hour per cassette format, which is far (FAR) lower quality than 480i; many of these people jumped onto DVD because it offered many convienience features and not because of the quality improvement, and Blu-Ray offers nothing in terms of convienience over DVD.
