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SvennoJ on 07 December 2012
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yo_john117 said:
SvennoJ said:
yo_john117 said:

Have No idea what type of TV (I think it was a slightly older TV cause this was back in early 2008 and they had it for a while before that) it was but it was on a PS3. I'm sorry though I just can't believe that HD (I'm not talking about Netflix "HD") and Blu-ray have a night/day difference. How does Blu-ray compare to the best movie theater screens? Because those are picture perfect, and unbelievably crisp (which is what Hunger Games in HD looks like on my TV)

Either way I'll have to try to get my cousin to bring his PS3 over and watch a blu-ray on it. What would you recommend? (something at Redbox preferably)

An older pre 2008 80" HDTV, that leads me to believe it might be a rear projection HD ready tv?
If that's the case then it wouldn't do blu-ray justice, since those only support up to about 600 lines of vertical resolution out of 1080.

Netflix HD and blu-ray have a huge difference. 
Netflix HD runs upto 5mbps picture+sound, Blu-ray upto 40mbps for picture alone, movie theaters upto 250mbps.
You won't see too much difference during slow moving and static scenes, but a world of difference in heavy action scenes.
And if you have the right setup you also get better sound on blu-ray.

Here's a list for best picture quality on blu-ray:
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/top.php?genre=&sortby=video&show=reviewrating

Their review for 300 is a bit mixed, great detail but flat picture due to some encoding and heavy post processing choices.

Yeah I know Netflix HD and Blu-ray have a huge difference. Netflix HD looks like a DVD. 

What I was wondering is if 1080P HD on demand (such as the Hunger Games) is close or about the same as Blu-ray. Because the Hunger Games on my HDTV in full 1080p looks as good as it did in the movie theater. 

I doubt it, unless you have Google fibre and they offer extremely high bitrate movies.
I don't know which service you have. I have Rogers and they stream 15mbps mpeg2 for 1080i60 HD on demand movies, again nice with slow moving scenes but not holding up well during action. (mostly due to the ancient mpeg2 compression)
Blu-ray streams 1080p24, so next to a higher bitrate (and more advanced codecs in my case at least) you also get the movie footage without the 3:2 pulldown conversion.

In my experience it's:
Netflix HD <= PS3 movies (upto 6mbps vc-1) < Xbox movies (upto 10mpbs vc-1) = on demand streaming << blu-ray <<<< cinema
(1080i60 or 1080p60 doesn't make any difference for 24fps movies)

The cinema version should be much better then blu-ray and HD on demand in theory, but it all depends on how well the system has been calibrated. Most of the time it looks better at home since you can control brightness, contrast and ambient lighting exactly to your liking. Plus projecting from a point source through 100ft of air onto a huge flat screen is never perfect.