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hi guys,

had a delivery at work earlier in the week, 3 of the new samsung blu-ray players, i tried it with a belin pure-av hdmi cable and a 42" HD LCD widescreen and the picture was amazing, it can also up-scale current dvds into near blu-ray quality - and the cost of all this technoism? a mere £999.99!!!!!

dazza :cool:

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A quick, practical take to tie together the points from , and and help decide what to test or buy.

Upscaling can make many DVDs look very good, but it cannot recover detail that is not in the original disc. The perceived gap between an upscaled DVD and a native high-definition Blu‑ray depends heavily on the player’s scaler, the TV’s processing (deinterlacing, motion smoothing, sharpness), viewing distance, and the audio chain. A plain explanation of the limits of upscaling is here: . For what Blu‑ray actually brings (higher video bitrates, greater storage and lossless audio formats) see the Blu‑ray overview: Blu-ray Disc (Wikipedia).

Quick checklist for a fair comparison (in-store or at home):

  • Use the same display input and cable for each player so the TV applies the same processing path.
  • Put the TV in a neutral picture mode (Movie/Cinema), turn off motion smoothing and exaggerated sharpening.
  • Compare the player’s upscaling vs the TV’s upscaler separately if possible.
  • Play a high-detail test scene (hair, foliage, fine text) and listen through your receiver/speakers to judge audio.
  • If you can, enable native 1080p output and 24p film cadence on the player for film sources.

If audio and fine texture are important (and there’s a capable AVR/speaker setup), Blu‑ray’s lossless codecs and higher video bitrates are meaningful. If the viewing distance is large or the sound system is modest, a good upscaler can be an excellent value. For historical context on the format competition and outcomes, see the format‑war summary: High‑definition optical disc format war.

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When you say all this technoism do you mean like every thing you mentioned or just the blu-ray player. I really have to get my hands on one of those blu-rays.

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no mate thats just the blue-ray player, i have 3 in stock, not sure about other branches, but yeah £999.99 for samsung blu-ray player with 2 blu-ray titles included

dazza :cool:

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I'll take it!!!


Not really, sorry. I really want a writer for my pc but that will cost a fortune for about the next 5 years. It is a shame that hddvd ever came out.

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Way too expensive for my tastes. Besides I must be blind or something I think because I watched a demo at a local electronics shop of a blu-ray movie and normal dvd upscaled to hd playing simultaneously using same hdmi cables and same 52" plasma high def tv. I did not see hardly any difference between the two both running at 1080i. Admittedly at 720p the blu-ray was slightly more noticeably different. But not enough that I'm going to buy the more than $1000 dollar blu-ray player when the HD upscalable dvd player was less than $100. It will be a long time before either blu-ray or HD-DVD is going to take over the DVD market.

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