Best (and Worst) High-Def Discs of 2006

An anonymous reader writes "High-Def Digest has released their first annual 'Best (and Worst) of the Year' list of movies released on HD DVD and/or Blu-ray. Not surprisingly, the 'best' list is heavy on superheroes. Superman, Batman, and the Hulk all made the list. Not a bad cheat sheet for those of us with a Blu-ray capable PS3 or an XBox 360 HD DVD add-on on our Christmas lists."

Comments

Re:I know this'll burn karma...

[pappy97]

"But what would be even nicer than having a list of nice HD movies, how about a nice guide of HD sets that accept 1080p via composite input or VGA input?"
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1080p via composite....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Sorry, bud, you have bigger problems than this question. Do some homework before you look stupid again.

Composite, FYI, is the yellow cable in standard RCA cables.

1080p over composite is the funniest thing TV related I've heard this year! Nice job!

Re:I know this'll burn karma (BAD MODS-NO COOKIE!)

[evilviper]

There is basically no difference between transmitting in 1080i vs 1080p when viewing content at or below 30 frames/second.

That is just utterly wrong. No matter what the framerate, with an interlaced display you have artifacts like spacial and temporal aliasing, twitter, etc.

With 24fps material on a 60fps interlaced display, you have to put up with things like judder as well, which can look really terrible in panning scenes.

When talking about high def tv's, you're mostly talking about progressive displays

The vast majority of HDTVs are interlaced. Plasmas, LCD, etc., are in the minority.

Direct-view and projection CRTs are still the standard, because of the higher resolution, response-time, contrast, and price.

1080i sends half the image on cycle 1 and half the image on cycle 2, your tv deinterlaces the image fields and shows you a progressive image for 2 frames. 1080p on the other hand sends the whole image on cycle 1, and nothing on cycle 2, and shows the progressive image for 2 frames as well.

This shows a complete and utter lack of understand of any relevant video concepts.

Film is converted to interlaced with 3:2 pulldown (aka telecine), and you need significant processing power to reverse it (IVTC) to return it to the original progressive image. Even with unlimited processing power, there has never been an IVTC process divised which does a perfect job. You will always get some artifacts. Plus, I'm willing to bet that the under-powered processors in most HDTVs aren't good enough to even keep those to a minimum.
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For some reason though, ignorant idiots like yourself (Toshiba shills, perhaps?) repeatedly spout-off on stuff like this whenever HDTV comes up on slashdot, and manage to trick some unsuspecting mods into giving them points for their misinformation.

Perhaps now you can jump to the next one, and say that people can't possibly see any improvement of HDTV over standard definition, or that the DRM on HD-DVD/Blu-ray is so much worse than CSS on DVDs...