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<blockquote data-quote="superballs" data-source="post: 94548" data-attributes="member: 341"><p>I love BluRay, I probably would have loved HD-DVD. Honestly, i have a 720p plasma and unless I tell someone it's 720p, I've never had anyone tell me it didn't look good. Plasma has some advantages over LCD anyway, although LDC technology is looking better and better, moving images get that blur and artifact effect that I never see on my plasma.</p><p></p><p>The only time I actually notice the difference is in TPA, where I actually have to focus in on really really small details, like the text on lamp inlays. 1080p does have an advantage in that regard, and I'm sure 4k would also have a further advantage in displaying microscopic text.</p><p></p><p>I have a 50" display and sit between 12-14 feet away from it. I'm pretty sure it was said that at 2.5 times the width of the display as a viewing distance, there is no visual difference between 720p and 1080p. </p><p></p><p>Where I do see a difference however would be at the Theater. Our local "IMAX" which is just a retrofitted theater, so it's not the 75mm film but the paired 4k projectors. I have to say, it's beautiful. I mean beautiful. 1080p stretched out to massive size when you are sitting relatively close is still nice i guess but at 8k, I think it would almost qualify for Apple's "Retina" standards. Purely off the cuff though, as I don't feel like doing calculations or finding out how big our "IMAX" screen is.</p><p></p><p>I'll be honest, I love BD for old film conversions as fild didn't have a "resolution" per se the way we think about it now (film grain size was the limit), but my copy of T2 on BD looks phenominal. But re-releases of mid-2000s movies aren't much better than up-scaled DVDs.</p><p></p><p>Have to say, movies shot in super-high resolutions look fantastic though.</p><p></p><p>Honest, I'm skipping the 4k train, displays as it is cost as much as a nice AFM machine. I might upgrade when 8K comes along, assuming that my eyes haven't deteriorated past the point of being able to tell DVD and BD apart by that point.</p><p></p><p>I called good riddance when VHS was finally abandoned. I think DVD was the greatest thing to happen to home cinema ever. BD has a great picture, but I'm still happy watching DVDs, especially when a movie is the fraction of the price still of a BD.</p><p></p><p>I'm really just not that interested in a format war. How about releasing a 32-bit common audio format so that digital sound will finally have a wider frequency reproduction range than vinyl records? Even 24-bit DVD quality and uncompressed 24-bit BD quality falls short there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="superballs, post: 94548, member: 341"] I love BluRay, I probably would have loved HD-DVD. Honestly, i have a 720p plasma and unless I tell someone it's 720p, I've never had anyone tell me it didn't look good. Plasma has some advantages over LCD anyway, although LDC technology is looking better and better, moving images get that blur and artifact effect that I never see on my plasma. The only time I actually notice the difference is in TPA, where I actually have to focus in on really really small details, like the text on lamp inlays. 1080p does have an advantage in that regard, and I'm sure 4k would also have a further advantage in displaying microscopic text. I have a 50" display and sit between 12-14 feet away from it. I'm pretty sure it was said that at 2.5 times the width of the display as a viewing distance, there is no visual difference between 720p and 1080p. Where I do see a difference however would be at the Theater. Our local "IMAX" which is just a retrofitted theater, so it's not the 75mm film but the paired 4k projectors. I have to say, it's beautiful. I mean beautiful. 1080p stretched out to massive size when you are sitting relatively close is still nice i guess but at 8k, I think it would almost qualify for Apple's "Retina" standards. Purely off the cuff though, as I don't feel like doing calculations or finding out how big our "IMAX" screen is. I'll be honest, I love BD for old film conversions as fild didn't have a "resolution" per se the way we think about it now (film grain size was the limit), but my copy of T2 on BD looks phenominal. But re-releases of mid-2000s movies aren't much better than up-scaled DVDs. Have to say, movies shot in super-high resolutions look fantastic though. Honest, I'm skipping the 4k train, displays as it is cost as much as a nice AFM machine. I might upgrade when 8K comes along, assuming that my eyes haven't deteriorated past the point of being able to tell DVD and BD apart by that point. I called good riddance when VHS was finally abandoned. I think DVD was the greatest thing to happen to home cinema ever. BD has a great picture, but I'm still happy watching DVDs, especially when a movie is the fraction of the price still of a BD. I'm really just not that interested in a format war. How about releasing a 32-bit common audio format so that digital sound will finally have a wider frequency reproduction range than vinyl records? Even 24-bit DVD quality and uncompressed 24-bit BD quality falls short there. [/QUOTE]
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