2007-07-05 14:40:40 · 4 answers · asked by fresh2 4 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Home Theater
In terms of video detail, I mean.
2007-07-05 14:42:10 · update #1
And my PS3 (Blu-Ray) is connected with HDMI, while my three-year-old Pioneer DVD player is composite video. Still it's better sometimes!
2007-07-05 14:58:00 · update #2
Oh I meant component video on the DVD. I get those mixed up!
2007-07-06 03:35:17 · update #3
Early release Blu-Ray DVDs had encoding problems, and they were reported to be inferior to well-made standard DVDs. This caused a lot of trouble initially with the introduction of Blu-Ray. HD-DVD did not have this problem, causing many reviewers to prematurely pronounce the "failure" of Blu-Ray.
More recent (newer than one year ago) Blu-Ray discs have overcome the problem, and any Blu-Ray should be much better than a standard DVD.
For the technical explanation of how this happened: HD-DVD licensed Microsoft's compression algorithm (VC-1), while Blu-Ray stuck with MPEG-2 (same as what std DVD uses). Microsoft's encoder was much more efficient, getting more detail into the same amount of storage. Blu-Ray thought they didn't need that efficiency because of the larger capacity of the Blu-Ray disc. Apparently this was not well implemented at first, but has now been corrected.
2007-07-06 17:54:23 · answer #1 · answered by gp4rts 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No! Even the worse Blu-Ray and HD-DVD disks (and I have a few, since I am an early adopter) are WAY better than the best DVDs out there! Even when connected with HDMI or component....
You got to check the setting on you HDTV - you might have wrong picture settings for HDMI/Component input...
2007-07-05 23:52:41 · answer #2 · answered by AM 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why aren't you using at least the component video out from your DVD player? It will give you a better pic. than using the old composite output. As for your seeing a better pic it's most likely you have been watching early BD releases. They were horrid. More recent releases look way better. Although, I'm sure there are a few recent ones that were badly authored to begin with.
2007-07-05 19:39:53 · answer #3 · answered by mrhan1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
whaaaaaaaaaat are u talking about
2007-07-05 14:54:19 · answer #4 · answered by iannn 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋