How much better is Blue Ray?

[OldSkoolRS]

Probably get shot down in flames here, but it's got nothing to do with having a 100Hz TV. That just provides extra interpolated frames with the aim of making motion smoother and sharper (it also tends to add a look of 'video' to film so many don't like it either). My previous projector had this feature and I turned it off (it was supposed to be one of the better ones in this regard too a Panasonic AE3000) as I like films to look like film and not a video game.

I would say that if your TV doesn't accept 24p input then the picture will tend to judder as you'll be force to output the BluRay at 1080/60i/p so it will be adding an extra frame (whats called 3:2 pull up) making pans in particular a bit jumpy.

[HereBeMonsters]

As I now have one of these new fangled PlayStations, should I stop buying DVDs and buy Blu-Ray instead?

My telly is currently a 32" Sony flat screen CRT. As it has a built in Freeview decoder and we can't get Satellite for HD I can see no reason to change it just yet. Picture is way better than any LCD under £1k I've seen anyway.

My question is: would I notice a quality increase playing a Blu-Ray disc on my PS3, input into telly via SCART or RGB cables? Or should I just stick to DVD for the time being?

[TheLemming]

HereBeMonsters said:

As I now have one of these new fangled PlayStations, should I stop buying DVDs and buy Blu-Ray instead?

My telly is currently a 32" Sony flat screen CRT. As it has a built in Freeview decoder and we can't get Satellite for HD I can see no reason to change it just yet. Picture is way better than any LCD under £1k I've seen anyway.

My question is: would I notice a quality increase playing a Blu-Ray disc on my PS3, input into telly via SCART or RGB cables? Or should I just stick to DVD for the time being?

Via scart or RGB youb wont notice the improvement, in fact you'd notice a bigger improvement using HDMI (assuming your TV accepts it).

[HereBeMonsters]

TheLemming said:

HereBeMonsters said:

As I now have one of these new fangled PlayStations, should I stop buying DVDs and buy Blu-Ray instead?

My telly is currently a 32" Sony flat screen CRT. As it has a built in Freeview decoder and we can't get Satellite for HD I can see no reason to change it just yet. Picture is way better than any LCD under £1k I've seen anyway.

My question is: would I notice a quality increase playing a Blu-Ray disc on my PS3, input into telly via SCART or RGB cables? Or should I just stick to DVD for the time being?

Via scart or RGB youb wont notice the improvement, in fact you'd notice a bigger improvement using HDMI (assuming your TV accepts it).

Nope. No HDMI ports here. Stick to DVD then?

[TheLemming]

HereBeMonsters said:

TheLemming said:

HereBeMonsters said:

As I now have one of these new fangled PlayStations, should I stop buying DVDs and buy Blu-Ray instead?

My telly is currently a 32" Sony flat screen CRT. As it has a built in Freeview decoder and we can't get Satellite for HD I can see no reason to change it just yet. Picture is way better than any LCD under £1k I've seen anyway.

My question is: would I notice a quality increase playing a Blu-Ray disc on my PS3, input into telly via SCART or RGB cables? Or should I just stick to DVD for the time being?

Via scart or RGB youb wont notice the improvement, in fact you'd notice a bigger improvement using HDMI (assuming your TV accepts it).

Nope. No HDMI ports here. Stick to DVD then?

Well, you've got a PS3 already, so rent a blu-ray from blockbuster and try it out - it's only going to cost you a couple of quid

You wont get the FULL experience from the scart connection (thanks HDCP grrr) but it may be better than DVD for you. Worth trying it out for the subjective results.

IMHO it shouldnt be much different for you as Blu-Ray content over a non-HDCP connection path is downscaled (although I cant seem to google the max resolution for it).

Whats the resolution on your TV?

[OldSkoolRS]

TheLemming said:

Whats the resolution on your TV?

720 x 576 is the likely equivalent if it's a widescreen CRT, though they don't have fixed pixels. If you think you might get a HDTV in future, then there's nothing stopping you buying any BluRays of films you'd like to own, but they will cost considerably more. In the meantime you will not see any difference in picture quality IMHO.

[derestrictor]

NTSC/PAL DVDs resolve 480i/576i respectively.

Blu-ray's shines through and is massively apparent on any half decent monitor of recent years.

Forgetting the technical issues, the qualified subjective experience is like going to colour from black and white in all but a very small number of superbit DVD comparisons.

If you enjoy films it is the most fundamnetal no brainer since the dawn of Laser Disc.

The players are so cheap I cannot see why you would hesitate and use it for regular DVD replay, too.

[OldSkoolRS]

derestrictor said:

Blu-ray's shines through and is massively apparent on any half decent monitor of recent years.........The players are so cheap I cannot see why you would hesitate and use it for regular DVD replay, too.

With a CRT there's little point buying BluRays apart from 'futureproofing' his collection surely? Regarding the OP, his TV os 32" and viewed at 3 metres, so little point there as well (unless you're a dealer trying to get him to buy a BD player).

EDIT: Just remembered derestrictor is a dealer, but that wasn't meant as a pop against him....

Edited by OldSkoolRS on Wednesday 7th October 19:16

[Tiggsy]

HereBeMonsters said:

As I now have one of these new fangled PlayStations, should I stop buying DVDs and buy Blu-Ray instead?

Surley in 5 years time most TV's will be HD and most players blueray? Its why i've never bought a VHS, DVD, BR that i wasnt pretty sure i was going to watch a few times within a few years. Never saw the point when i can rent a disk a few times for the price of buying. The odd disck i do buy now are all blueray.....and on a decent TV is light years ahead of anything else.