Blue Ray Folks Help Me Out!

[z06boy]

Originally Posted by TIGGER

What your husband REALLY wants this Christmas is a HOT, inter-racial porn staring his lovely wife... Hmm, I wonder who we can get to play the black/mixed guy having dirty, gorilla sex with you? Whom do we know that is a big mixed/black guy with low moral standards? Hmm it's a quandary....

[RACER X]

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[the chi]

I cant stop laughing...you guys are too much...however I DO like that little outfit, I may need to invest...link?

[Gas Man]

Originally Posted by Apoc

The wii doesnt use bluray for many reasons, the first was to keep cost down, and then because Nintendo wanted a game machine, not a home entertainment system. And while the wii is fun, the graphics are shit.

X-box, on the otherhand, was backed by Microsofts HD-DVD, which failed, and MS is not about to start paying Sony to use their format. Not gonna happen, ever.

It is not, however, because dvd is as good as bluray. It is not. Not in ANY price range. Dvd cannot create the picture bluray can. Simply, DVD cant hold the data that bluray can, and the laser for a dvd cant read data at any different wavelength to allow the storage of more data. DVD is not a HD format (except for HD-DVD, which really isnt dvd)

Im not sure where you got your info, but your way off.

The technology is there. You can upscale a dvd easily. Such things as Toshiba XDE500 & Oppo's 980/981/983 or Denon DVD2900

Sure its upscaling but if you read reviews on such products they say it will perform very well to bluray such as PS3, with SD DVD discs.

As I remember it... whenever you are debating pic or sound quality, where the debate ends is in processors. This typically goes for tvs, and media players. While I haven't spoke to the av guy at magnolia room in a while. The processor is where many things start to lack. Processor lag, etc. Like I said, I would have to stop back in for a refresher on whats what. I have a nice setup now and I simply dont care enough to worry about it.

That all being said... I drool on
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Sony+-+B...&skuId=9500453

[goof2]

Originally Posted by Gas Man

The technology is there. You can upscale a dvd easily. Such things as Toshiba XDE500 & Oppo's 980/981/983 or Denon DVD2900

Sure its upscaling but if you read reviews on such products they say it will perform very well to bluray such as PS3, with SD DVD discs.

As I remember it... whenever you are debating pic or sound quality, where the debate ends is in processors. This typically goes for tvs, and media players. While I haven't spoke to the av guy at magnolia room in a while. The processor is where many things start to lack. Processor lag, etc. Like I said, I would have to stop back in for a refresher on whats what. I have a nice setup now and I simply dont care enough to worry about it.

That all being said... I drool on
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Sony+-+B...&skuId=9500453

A good processor certainly makes a difference (and the PS3 is still supposed to have one of the better processors out there), but with upscaling it is still a matter of the processor trying to guess about data that is not contained on the disk. With Blu-ray the information is all there, no guessing is necessary. As an alternative to getting a high dollar DVD player so it has a good video processor, I would instead get a higher end receiver that contains a very good video processor. Let it do the heavy lifting rather than your source component. The extra benefit is it can upscale all your sources, not just the DVD.

Regardless, if you are happy with the set up you have I think you are right to not mess with it. Blu-ray is nice, but at this point there is still a price premium for being an early adopter. The prices on players and disks will continue to come down. Why pay a premium for something you aren't missing anyway?

[Rangerscott]

Out of using my PS3's blu-ray and M$ HD-DVD player on my pc, I have to say HD-DVD is better.

You can not always blame the player. If the movie was not shot in HD, then they convert it to HD resolutions and the process they use can make or break a nice picture. Terminator 2 was obvisouly not shot in HD but it is on blu-ray and I've read post after post about how crappy the quality is. They did a crappy job converting it so you can't blame your player there. There is another T2 blu-ray edition out now, but I havent heard anything about it yet.

[Flexin]

Originally Posted by RACER X

YouTube- 6 Million Dollar, Home Movie Theater

That looks cool in a way but I would expect a LOT MORE from 6 million dollars. It looks more like a a/v yard sale then the ultimate set up.

James

[Flexin]

Originally Posted by Gas Man

The technology is there. You can upscale a dvd easily. Such things as Toshiba XDE500 & Oppo's 980/981/983 or Denon DVD2900

Sure its upscaling but if you read reviews on such products they say it will perform very well to bluray such as PS3, with SD DVD discs.

As I remember it... whenever you are debating pic or sound quality, where the debate ends is in processors. This typically goes for tvs, and media players. While I haven't spoke to the av guy at magnolia room in a while. The processor is where many things start to lack. Processor lag, etc. Like I said, I would have to stop back in for a refresher on whats what. I have a nice setup now and I simply dont care enough to worry about it.

That all being said... I drool on
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Sony+-+B...&skuId=9500453

http://reviews.cnet.com/dvd-players/...7-33224998.htm

"r. And it almost goes without saying that the images we saw from the Toshiba DVD player did not look nearly as good as the high-definition images available on any Blu-ray player."

James

[Gas Man]

Originally Posted by goof2

A good processor certainly makes a difference (and the PS3 is still supposed to have one of the better processors out there), but with upscaling it is still a matter of the processor trying to guess about data that is not contained on the disk. With Blu-ray the information is all there, no guessing is necessary. As an alternative to getting a high dollar DVD player so it has a good video processor, I would instead get a higher end receiver that contains a very good video processor. Let it do the heavy lifting rather than your source component. The extra benefit is it can upscale all your sources, not just the DVD.

Regardless, if you are happy with the set up you have I think you are right to not mess with it. Blu-ray is nice, but at this point there is still a price premium for being an early adopter. The prices on players and disks will continue to come down. Why pay a premium for something you aren't missing anyway?

Yeah I hear about the upscaling/converting in the recv. My denon does that now. I run all my sources into it and one hdmi to the lcd. Works well. I'm just not wanting to buy a bluray. I hate paying $20 for a DVD let alone $35+ for the br.

[marko138]

Originally Posted by Gas Man

Yeah I hear about the upscaling/converting in the recv. My denon does that now. I run all my sources into it and one hdmi to the lcd. Works well. I'm just not wanting to buy a bluray. I hate paying $20 for a DVD let alone $35+ for the br.

Cheap bastard.