Comments on: Blu-ray & HD-DVD Hybrid

By: Blu ray dvd

Blu ray dvd — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:00:33 +0000

With the format war now over there is talk of a hybrid blu ray dvd’s.

By: viky

viky — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:20:31 +0000

Thats right!!!!!!

By: kayangephyday

kayangephyday — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:25:33 +0000

Огромное человеческое спасибочки !

By: chris

chris — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:36:01 +0000

just got a bush 37inch hd tv and a wafendale upscale dvd player from argos. the majar prob is it won’t play any film dvds in full screen???!! is there an upscale player that plays all 2.35+ in full screen??? thanks.

By: Pat Riley

Pat Riley — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:48:22 +0000

Can somebody help me out? I don’t understand all the technical jargon I am reading about Blue-Ray vs HD DVD, but I need to make a decision on which to buy because soon I am purchasing a 52″ Sharp LCD TV. If someone could just tell me in laymans terms the advantages and disadvantages of those two units, I would truly appreciate it. Please email me at ju2346@yahoo.co.uk I thank-you very much……..Pat Riley

By: Anuban

Anuban — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 18:30:54 +0000

Found a CNET review of that model:

An excerpt:

“CNET editors’ review
Reviewed by: Matthew Moskovciak
Edited by: David Katzmaier
Reviewed on 11/6/06

The 1080p resolution, which combines the benefits of lots of pixels and progressive-scan smoothness, is the latest craze in TV technology, and it wasn’t long before upconverting DVD players jumped on the bandwagon. The Samsung DVD-HD960 is one of the first players that can upconvert DVDs to 1080p resolution over its HDMI output, and unlike some of the other high-performance DVD players we’ve reviewed, this one has a sleek and slim design along with its technological prowess. Don’t expect miracles, however; as always, the image quality benefits of upconversion won’t make DVDs look like Blu-ray discs or HD-DVDs, and those benefits can vary depending on how well your HDTV itself performs upconversion. Although the DVD-HD960 has a lot going for it–its handling of nonanamorphic wide-screen DVDs is the simplest we’ve seen–it isn’t quite as feature packed as some other players that have memory card slots and support for high-resolution audio formats. On the other hand, its performance is generally very good, though a few issues might disturb eagle-eyed videophiles”

By: ANDRE

ANDRE — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 18:15:44 +0000

There is a DVD player that upscales to 1080P. Samsung makes it. I do believe the model # is DVD-HD960. This unit has some mixed review however it seems to be a good perfomer. It claimes to upscale to 1080P.

By: Anuban

Anuban — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 18:04:22 +0000

As far as I know the answer to your question is there is nothing that can upscale from 480i/p to 1080p. Really 1080p is for taking advantage of Blu-ray and HD-DVD movies and also SOME (supposed to be ALL in the near future) PS3 and SOME X360 games. Other than that if you are only watching regular TV or even HD channels you aren’t going to see any big benefits over a 1080i/720p TV.

By: mike shaw

mike shaw — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:58:00 +0000

Interesting stuff all this, I bought the sharp 1080p model LC42 I already had a dvd player that upscales to 1080i but also plays 720p which is pretty good. What I would dearly love to know is, is there anything out there that will upscale normal tv to 1080p?. I was going to go down the HD route with sky but talking to one of their guys today I found out that they only broadcast 1080i so what is the point of paying big bucks to them for an HD box when they only have 10 or so HD channels to watch on it.

If anyone knows of any hardware that does the job I would be most grateful

By: Anuban

Anuban — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:10:09 +0000

As much as I am a HUGE proponnet of HD-DVD I can’t help but think that Blu-Ray has a very good chance of being around for a long time. It is just too early to say who will win imo. Of course though I have the MS HD-DVD player and have ZERO plans on purchasing the PS3 or any Blu-ray player. But who knows what will happen once Sony irons out the problems of the PS3 … I sure don’t at this juncture. Plus Spiderman 3 will only be on Blu-ray so that may really help spur its acceptance forward.

By: Blake

Blake — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:24:39 +0000

The debate over HD DVD vs Blu-Ray will continue. Blu-Ray apparently has more storage capacity. However, Microsoft backing the HD DVD with their Xbox 360 will cause movie developers to think hard in which format that they will ultimately back. I am going to go with HD DVD to win the Blu-Ray vs HD DVD poll.

See for yourself: http://todayspolls.googlepages.com/bluray_vs_hddvd_poll

By: Anuban

Anuban — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:04:46 +0000

I thought that as long as you can at least upscale to 1080p then you would get 1080p picture quality … but that is a good question. What really is the difference between this “updscaling” to 1080p and “true” 1080p … probably this is somewhere on the web but if vagos knows it would save all of the work of Googling for it.

By: ANDRE

ANDRE — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 07:49:54 +0000

I just bought the kdsr50-xbr1 and was told it was 1080P tv. I have been reading and found out is upscales the picture to 1080P. Does that mean if I buy a blu-ray it will not work? Will it display at 1080i? or 720P? Or will it upscale to 1080P? I am quite confused and pissed off. I am considering returning it and buying the sxrd instead because it says it plays true 1080P. Please help…

Thanks
Andre

By: vagos

vagos — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:03:56 +0000

Yes that is correct. Your TV can only display 1080i not 1080p since its a 1080i TV. The HD DVD is playing at 1080p, but it will not display 1080p if your TV isn’t 1080p, yes you will get lines on the TV. Since the resolution of your TV is only 1080i, you must select 1080i to display it. The only way to display 1080p is to have a 1080p capable TV, just like I do. There is no other way around it. That is why I invested in 1080p, because of this problem. I wanted to future proof myself with Blue ray and HD DVD since they are recorded in 1080p

By: tony

tony — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 06:06:22 +0000

If your TV is 1080i and your HD DVD is 1080p what is your dvd playing as? Is it playing in 1080i or back to 480i? Our tv is 1080i and when we select 1080p to play the DVD it won’t do anything, just puts lines on the tv so we have to select 1080i in order to play it.

By: vagos

vagos — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:47:39 +0000

I also forgot to mention that there is difference to my eye between 1080i and 1080p and 720p and 1080i, 1080p. 1080i to 1080p there is a smoother flicker free picture (the refresh rate is different, but the resolution is the same). 720p to 1080i, there is a difference. HD Hockey is broadcasted in 720p and HD Discovery and other channels are in 1080i. When I compare both both channels and analyze what I’m seeing is: 1080i is still a much sharper clearer picture. Even though 720p is progressive and 1080i is interlaced there are more lines of resolution in 1080i which make the picture look more nicer and clearer than 720p. This is what I see. Now when I change my settings to take the 1080i signal and let my TV upscale it to 1080p, I can actually see the difference as the picture is more smoother and clean looking. My cents worth on this topic, since I have a 1080p TV.

By: vagos

vagos — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:27:55 +0000

Brian: Well actually you can do better than 480p from a regualar 480p DVD movie. Buy a DVD player that will upscale to 1080p, or let you TV upscale to 1080p which I currently do. I have a 1080p 61″ JVC LCOS technology HDTV which makes all my 480p movies look like 1080p, because it has a internal scaler. And let me tell you there is remarkable difference between 480p and 1080p upscaled. When I play my 480p DVD movies they look alright, but when my TV uscales them to 1080p they look remarkable, they look like full HD. I have fooled all my friends when they came over, they thought they were watching HD DVD, but in fact it was just 480p upscaled to 1080p. I agree who needs HD DVD or Blue ray right now when you can have near HD output by upscaling your current 480p DVD’s to 1080p. But then again, you will need a TV that can output 1080p to do that.

By: SREYAS M.N

SREYAS M.N — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 03:42:03 +0000

Well i feeel very interesting to here the details of hddvd.So i take HDDVD as my seminar topic.

Sreyas

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:55:09 +0000

Just to throw my two cents in…..

I agree with JMAN. 1080p looks better to the naked eye because it is refreshed more “efficiently” I guess you could say than 1080i. And to add to that statement, and this is probably the obviously, the best you can do from a DVD would in fact be 480p rather than 480i….which is what I watch on the BRAVIA with the Panny DVD player.

By: JMAN

JMAN — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 19:48:09 +0000

The comment above is mislead. If the above statement were true then typical television (480i) would only have 240 lines of vertical resolution. We all know that isn’t true becuase it would look like a cell phone screen blown up.
The difference between 1080i and 1080p is not that one has a better resolution, it’s only how the screen is refreshed. 1080p is considered better because each frame is refreshed as a whole each time, which reduces visible flicker. 1080i has lines 1,3,5,7.. refreshed then lines 2,4,6,8… refreshed. So there are still the same number of pixels used, just they are refreshed differently.