Blu-ray picture quality
Robert Harley -- Tue, 08/22/2006 - 08:42
Don't be so quick to blame Samsung for the poor quality of the Blu-ray video. It seems it is a case of garbage-in, garbage -out. Preliminary reports on the Pioneer and Sony players also report poor video quality. Speculation is it is the codec and lack of storage on the single layer disks.
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The poster is referring to the fact that the first Blu-ray titles are encoded with MPEG-2, not the demonstrably superior AVC coding used in HD DVD (and eventually in Blu-ray). He's also referring to the Samsung's use of noise reduction in the first Blu-ray player, which results in a softer picture.
Is Blu-ray's softer picture the result of MPEG-2 encoding or of the Samsung player's noise reduction?
Robert Harley
I was nothing but impressed with the demo of Sony's BDPS-1 on a 60" SXRD RPJ. There was enough detail in the movie Stealth to make it obvious that the fighter plane cockpit was made from cardboard.
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