Check out these screenshots of the standard def version of The Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship of the Ring compared to the high-def version of it and you’ll see how this stupid format war needs to end now so it’s not a complicated pain in the butt to enjoy this stuff.
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Yea, that is freakin sweet. Thanks for the share.
Apart from the contrast, I couldn’t tell anything different. Looks like I should save my money (especially since we tend to watch DVDs on a laptop and downloaded compressed files and have trouble telling the difference between them).
I do wonder if you really need to be able to count individual leaves on trees in the background to be able to enjoy a film? How much detail can you tell at the cinema or in a theatre/play or even “in real life”?
I have a problem with this, after reading what he did. This is invalid in many ways. He used two different pieces of software, he scaled the images, and he used JPEG. The people who care would have waited for the BMP to load. He should have used version 9 that supports HD, and he should not have scaled them. The upscaled 1920×1080 DVD full scale images look horrible.
Sure its a nice comparison, sure it makes HD look better, sure HD is better, but lets not throw in so many variables. I thought we all learned that in grade school.
And I am pretty sure the format war is over. Warner is now Blu, and Paramount is out of its contract, they will likely go Blu too. Universal is the last shoe to drop. Then it is lights out HD DVD.
Richy C., the difference on the LOTR set is amazing. But if you are not seeing the difference than I guess you can save your money.