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redford · 08-06-2006, 01:01 PM

Found this picture from CES over on AVS today. I don't see a picture only thread so thought I'd throw it up.

Augustes · 08-06-2006, 01:01 PM

I can't see how colors will look that much better from DVD to HD. The dvd shot looks completely washed out and the HD shot looks over saturated. I doubt you would even see that much of a difference between the two on a screenshot that is only 600x400 of two even smaller monitors.

Nimbus · 08-06-2006, 01:01 PM

Taking a picture of a TV image isn't going to show you anything. The camera is going to automatically compensate for the image quality and try to hit a median. We're going to have to wait until they hit stores before we can really see what the difference is.

redford · 08-06-2006, 01:02 PM

My guess is that they purposely desaturated the DVD picture, or oversaturated the HD picture so the HD signal would look that much better, just like they do in TV showrooms; they put everything to its highest level so it "pops" more. A properly mastered DVD shouldn't have any noticeable difference in color saturation vs an HD source.

Nimbus · 08-06-2006, 01:02 PM

Spent the day at CES. The pictures don't really show the difference the way you see in the booths. For me, the difference wasn't so much in color saturation, but in details. They had two dvd players running simultaneously showing flamingos. The hues were similar but the details in things like feathers and grass were much more obvious in the Blu-Ray version.

Heck, the differences were so obvious even this guy could tell the difference:

redford · 08-06-2006, 01:03 PM

If it's some marketing tactic, then that's terrible. I'm guessing (hoping) that it's just a result of the way the digital camera stores pics taken of monitors.

Many have said that the PQ increase from DVD to HD is leaps and bounds greater than the PQ increase from VHS to DVD. If the HD movies on HBO, Showtime, and HDNet Movies are any indication, then I agree with that statement (this is assuming that the movies on BR/HD-DVD will look as good as the HD movies on those channels). I almost don't want to watch DVDs anymore these days, as they look "crappy" compared to the HD movies on TV.