On 01/05/14 20:40, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2014-05-01 19:59 (GMT+1000) Basil Chupin composed:
Don't accept my word for it. Find someone with a Blu-ray player (a Bd player is capable of playing a normal DVD), hire a copy of the same movie on DVD and on Bd disc and watch both. Then come back and tell that there is no difference :-) .
Without a big enough TV and good enough eyes, the difference can easily be beyond discernable. I do side by sides all the time here, because I get the same 1080 satellite feeds that CBS (18GB/hr) and NBC (10GB/hr) affiliates use for broadcasting. The difference is there, but without seeing both at once side by side, it's tough to care about the small difference apparent without a big enough TV.
The size of the TV is not the reason. In fact, the bigger the TV the worse the image will be. All depends on the resolution and the make of the TV. Go to a website with pictures. Capture a picture using, say, KSnapshot and save it. Use Glenview to look at the image in its saved state. Then view it in Full Screen mode. See any difference? The other thing is that TV transmission are more often than not c***. Re this, digital TV - which we now have have in Australia - is far better than the analogue TV we had before. But, nevertheless, most of the TV programs, even though transmitted now in digital, are c*** because they were never made for digital TV. There is the occasional program which was specifically made for digital TV and it really stands out versus any program made for analogue TV. (And, in our case here in Australia, this mostly consists of American c*** programs which are repeats of American programs made anything between 30 and 50 years ago - so you can guess what THEY look like!) BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.13.0 & kernel 3.14.2-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org