Posted by MassiveProng on 02/16/07 00:39

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:00:01 -0500, "Joshua Zyber"
<joshzyber@comcast.net> Gave us:

>"Doug Jacobs" <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> wrote in message
>news:12t9btpc6l0vf52@corp.supernews.com...
>> I am, however, curious what titles might better illustrate the
>> difference
>> between the Panasonic which does standard progressive scan, and the
>> Oppo
>> which upscales to 1080p (TV is 1080p native)
>
>Since your TV is 1080p, if you feed it a 480p signal it will upscale
>that to the set's native resolution in any case. The picture on the
>screen will always utilize all 1920x1080 pixels. What you're comparing
>here is the quality of the Oppo player's scaling chip against that in
>the TV. It's very possible that they could be equally matched, and
>you'll see little to no difference.
>


And I thought at first glance that he wanted a title, like MI3 in
Std DVD compared to MI3 in HD DVD.

OR The Forbidden Planet in 480p and the same flic in HD DVD.

One can upscale the Std DVD or not.

THAT's the REAL comparison.

Take a very grainy film like Full Metal Jacket.

VERY BADLY grainy on the 480 Std DVD. SO much so that viewing it on
an HD FPD is nearly not possible to bear.

The HD DVD, however, despite the same glaring graininess (my ass
hurts from the screw job I got on that one), It is still an order of
magnitude better than the original.

Films where not as much difference can be detected are like King
Kong in DVD against HD DVD. The hi res is better, but not much, so it
is the sound that makes that disc better. OR look at The Hulk. It is
better on HD. Not much but certainly discernable.

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