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01-19-2008, 03:40 AM
HD on big flat screens never blew me of my socks anyways (compared to the marketing mabo jambo they make about that).
We did first first tests with our new Bluray recorder and one of our HD documentary footage (1920x1080/25i/Sony HD-Cam).
Ha what a bummer. Looked like poor encoded DVD - blown up.
Flicker in dark passages, jitter, stutter in pan/tilt/motion, artifacts and what not.
Look allright as long as nothing moves, but with some motion the resolutin seems to drop in half.
O.K. we prbably did not understand the parameters or simply messed it up somehow.
Then I went to "Media Markt" (big consumer warehouse) and looked at 50 different plasma and TFT screen that show a "reference" Blueray.
Same game here.
You need have to sit back about 4 times the screen diagonale til things get better.
And now I have found out why. Your eyes canīt resolve the resolution at that distance anymore - there is a formula for that.
That is sitting in front of a 23 inch computer display, set to 1040x720 and watching a good PAL SD DVD is the same as sitting 4.5 meters away from a big flat Plasma and watching a HD Bluray. Your eyes canīt tell the difference only your brain (washed by marketing experts) belives it can.
The same thing was done with wine latley and caused a big media echo over here.
They gave some poeple 5 different wines (actualy it was the same cheap wine) an told them this a a expensive one and that is a cheap one and so one.
All of them swore to god that the "expensive ones" actualy tasted better - just because the brain thinks that a more expensive wine have to taste better. Tests in a CT showed it was clearly done by your brain.
Frank
We did first first tests with our new Bluray recorder and one of our HD documentary footage (1920x1080/25i/Sony HD-Cam).
Ha what a bummer. Looked like poor encoded DVD - blown up.
Flicker in dark passages, jitter, stutter in pan/tilt/motion, artifacts and what not.
Look allright as long as nothing moves, but with some motion the resolutin seems to drop in half.
O.K. we prbably did not understand the parameters or simply messed it up somehow.
Then I went to "Media Markt" (big consumer warehouse) and looked at 50 different plasma and TFT screen that show a "reference" Blueray.
Same game here.
You need have to sit back about 4 times the screen diagonale til things get better.
And now I have found out why. Your eyes canīt resolve the resolution at that distance anymore - there is a formula for that.
That is sitting in front of a 23 inch computer display, set to 1040x720 and watching a good PAL SD DVD is the same as sitting 4.5 meters away from a big flat Plasma and watching a HD Bluray. Your eyes canīt tell the difference only your brain (washed by marketing experts) belives it can.
The same thing was done with wine latley and caused a big media echo over here.
They gave some poeple 5 different wines (actualy it was the same cheap wine) an told them this a a expensive one and that is a cheap one and so one.
All of them swore to god that the "expensive ones" actualy tasted better - just because the brain thinks that a more expensive wine have to taste better. Tests in a CT showed it was clearly done by your brain.
Frank