LOL @ HD-DVD

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Originally Posted by shidoshi

Also, for you people who are saying that digital distribution is going to kill Blu-ray before it even gets started, I'd like you to show me the America where in five years, everybody is going to have super high speed broadband and storage solutions to hold all of these movies. I have a 500GB external drive sitting here, which is something that you average consumer doesn't have at this point, yet even that could only hold a handful of HD movies. Five years from now, is everybody suddenly going to have storage space way beyond that sitting around?

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People who have HD movies now will probably have obscene storage space like that in 5 years. And a lot of people still won't give a shit about hi-def.

This might be a really stupid question but I was at Circuit City and I saw two films on display tvs, Pirates of the Caribbean AWE and Fantastic Four (the first). Both were playing the Blu Ray version and had a great picture, so great it was kind of creepy, like you were watching it live.

My question is, I own a few Blu Ray movies (Casino Royale, Spiderman 3, Fantastic Four Rise of the SS) and not one of them have that same kind of picture on a 1080p plasma. Is it certain Blu Rays or what?

Your TV? Your settings?

You should have a better display than what you see at Best Buy but that's gonna be mitigated by the effect of seeing so many displays playing at once at any electronics store.

Like Yoshi said, you gotta explain your hookups and settings.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

Your TV? Your settings?

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firmware?

I am using this Samsung http://www.crutchfield.com/App/Produ...FPT5084&tp=161

with a PS3 hooked up via HDMI. I guess I should play with the tv settings since the PS3 is playing at 1080p

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Originally Posted by Hot Like Wasabi

I am using this Samsung http://www.crutchfield.com/App/Produ...FPT5084&tp=161

with a PS3 hooked up via HDMI. I guess I should play with the tv settings since the PS3 is playing at 1080p

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that tv also supports 24hz :O

make sure you got the latest firmware and check your tv settings and blu-ray settings, i think it may be auto set on 24hz and seem different to you.

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Originally Posted by Hot Like Wasabi

I am using this Samsung http://www.crutchfield.com/App/Produ...FPT5084&tp=161

with a PS3 hooked up via HDMI. I guess I should play with the tv settings since the PS3 is playing at 1080p

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You need to calibrate your TV from the sounds of it.

Grab something like the Avia Disc or the Digital Video Essentials HD discs and follow their instructions.

I was at CES and it was kinda of sad really. The HD-DVD booth was right next to the Blu-ray booth. The Blu-ray booth was lively while the HD-DVD booth seemed like everyone was ready for a funeral.

There were HD-DVD ads everywhere, on Taxis, on buildings, banners hanging all over the convention center. Should saved that money and paid warner off.

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Originally Posted by Hot Like Wasabi

This might be a really stupid question but I was at Circuit City and I saw two films on display tvs, Pirates of the Caribbean AWE and Fantastic Four (the first). Both were playing the Blu Ray version and had a great picture, so great it was kind of creepy, like you were watching it live.

My question is, I own a few Blu Ray movies (Casino Royale, Spiderman 3, Fantastic Four Rise of the SS) and not one of them have that same kind of picture on a 1080p plasma. Is it certain Blu Rays or what?

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The feature that makes movies look like they are filmed "live" is anti-judder. Sony calls it Motion Flow, Samsung calls it Movie Plus.

http://ecoustics-cnet.com.com/4520-6...6792632-1.html

I don't particularly care for it, and the consensus is split among my friends. However, it is amazing with animated films.