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HappySqurriel on 02 December 2008
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kjj4t9rdad said:
HappySqurriel said:

I'm willing to bet that if I took many of these Blu-Ray boosters and put them in a room with a proper AV set up and had them vote whether content being displayed was upscaled or true 1080p they would perform very poorly unless the content was displayed side-to-side (or back-to-back).

There is a difference that can be seen, but it is not something that most people will notice unless they have something to compare it to directly.

 

BR is BETTER hands down.  Quit hating, and just accept it.  BTW  it is not difficult to tell the difference between upscaled and BR when you are used to seeing a true HD picture.  Its all in the details of the picture that upscaling just can't quit compete.

 

I'm not hating, just stating a fact ...

If you show someone a video on a 40 inch TV from 8 feet away and ask them to identify whether it is upscaled DVD or Blu-Ray without showing them another video (with the other format on it) they would have difficulty selecting the correct format more than (about) 60% of the time.

The truth is that people do not see what actually exists, they see images that were interpreted by their brain ... Without something to directly compare an image to, and with the elimination of the most obvious (pixelation) artifiacts, it becomes very difficult for them to see a quality difference. This is the same reason why you can use an awful TV for years and when you walk into an electronics store and see two TVs side by side (both of which are far better than your existing TV) one can look awful (and you may preceive it to be worse than your current TV).