An interesting anecdote at MinimalMac about television being broken. The author's young daughter, who is growing up in a Netflix/Hulu/iTunes/etc. household, was confronted with actual TV for the first time, and wonders why she can't pick what to watch, why the shows are being interrupted all the time, and so on. Clearly - TV is broken.
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Member since:2009-08-18
Sorry I don't really care what other videophiles think. I chose Predator because the filming and colours on a standard definition television (Sony WEGA CRT that I had) looks fantastic. That is what I am comparing it to..
Anyway Predator has a huge amount of greens, the human eye can see more different greens than any other colour. Also the film looks pretty good almost 30 years later.
I also mentioned Apocalypse now, which on blu-ray is fantastically clear.
Anyway I said the quality is "good enough". My DVDs don't look stretched and blocky and I don't have to buy Blu-rays or download a newer Hi-Def copy. That is the whole point of upscaling anyway.
TBH you can argue the toss all day about what looks best it is purely subjective topic.
I think Lost looks like any of TV series on a beach, newer films with all their CGI effects look weird on hi-def television because everything is a little too crisp. I rather watch something like Generation Kill in hi-def than crap like Lost even if the "quality" isn't there.
Member since:2011-08-08
You're welcome to think Predator looks fantastic. But the general consensus disagrees. It's common knownledge the quality of Predator both on DVD and bluray is less than stellar.
Very very little of Lost takes place on a beach, and it has very little CGI. So basically you're just talking out of your ass.
You don't need to feel so defensive -- nobody really cares about your personal opinions on this stuff, it's just the blatantly wrong info that needs to be corrected.
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2011-08-08
You do realize that Predator isn't exactly a great movie to use for reference or comparison right? The absolute best version of Predator available is the Hunter digital remaster and even that doesn't provide any huge leaps in quality.
There are a number of far better sources to use (the Lost tv series for example). This is a heavily discussed topic, it would be interesting to see how great you think your upscaler does when you're comparing material with significant difference in quality.
See my comments about perceived quality, and note "There is no magic algorithm by which otherwise absent quality appears out of thin air.".
If you see no difference between an upscaled DVD and the bluray counterpart, you need to pick better quality material for comparison. As mentioned earlier, Predator is known to have less than stellar quality on bluray.