{"id":128,"date":"2008-02-19T18:31:20","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T02:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/19\/blu-ray-is-still-a-loser\/"},"modified":"2008-02-19T18:32:18","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T02:32:18","slug":"blu-ray-is-still-a-loser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/blu-ray-is-still-a-loser\/","title":{"rendered":"Blu-ray is still a loser."},"content":{"rendered":"

First, I assume every body saw the announcement today from Toshiba that they are raising the white flag and shutting down their HD-DVD format:<\/p>\n

Toshiba Quits HD-DVD, Sony’s Blu-Ray Wins<\/a><\/p>\n

That said, is Blu-Ray really a winner? I am not referring to fact that eventually downloading will take-over (downloading a 10GB HD movie still takes many hours over 1Mbps), but I am referring to fact that the standard DVD format still looks great if you have a DVD player with up-sampling technology. <\/p>\n

I am a gamer and have eyes that are very sensitive to resolution, I totally see the difference between standard TV broadcast and HD TV broadcast, that is definitely worth it.<\/p>\n

But it is very rare that I see a movie in Blu-Ray (on my PS3) which I think is far superior than a standard DVD with up-sampling (on the same PS3 btw). Only one movie impressed my eyes a bit in Blu-Ray format, and that was Crank<\/a>. Even then, the difference was not so great to the extent that I would feel bad watching the standard DVD version with up-sampling.<\/p>\n

What up-sampling does is increase the standard DVD resolution from 720×480 (NTSC) to the true HDTV resolution of 1920x1080p (note that smaller HDTVs run at 1920x1080i which “fakes” the 1080 by interlacing the odd and even lines). So the up-sampling is effectively expanding every 1×1 pixel from the original DVD resolution to roughly 2.67×2.25 pixels in the HDTV resolution by interpolating the possible values between the original 1×1 pixels. For a stationary photo the eye might notice the degraded picture and aliasing jaggies after this process, but for a moving picture it is very hard for the eyes to catch that.<\/p>\n

In summary, don’t run out and buy a blu-ray disk player (unless you need a PS3 \ud83d\ude42 ), getting a normal DVD player with up-sampling is just as good and you will have more choices at Netflix\/Blockbuster.<\/p>\n

— amr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, I assume every body saw the announcement today from Toshiba that they are raising the white flag and shutting down their HD-DVD format: Toshiba Quits HD-DVD, Sony’s Blu-Ray Wins That said, is Blu-Ray really a winner? I am not referring to fact that eventually downloading will take-over (downloading a 10GB HD movie still takes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}