I agree wholeheartedly.
I can also tell the difference between BD and 'HD-lite' overcompressed garbage on HD on demand from comcast or any of the movie channels on comcast/directv. It is sad to me that the 'scene' does a better job recompressing movies than the actual content providers do.
And this isn't taking audio into account; it is almost painful to me to watch movies on DVD now (or BD movies with DD 640k soundtracks). I bought speed racer as a demo movie for my store and watched it at home without looking at the box; within 45 seconds I was trying to change audio tracks figuring it didn't select PCM or TrueHD automatically... the difference is astounding going from vanilla DD to high bitrate tracks on a proper disc.
I will never be able to go back... I am happy to pay a price premium.
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I agree wholeheartedly. I can also tell the difference between BD and 'HD-lite' overcompressed garbage on HD on demand from comcast or any of the movie channels on comcast/directv. It is sad to me that the 'scene' does a better job recompressing movies than the actual content providers do. And this isn't taking audio into account; it is almost painful to me to watch movies on DVD now (or BD movies with DD 640k soundtracks). I bought speed racer as a demo movie for my store and watched it at home without looking at the box; within 45 seconds I was trying to change audio tracks figuring it didn't select PCM or TrueHD automatically... the difference is astounding going from vanilla DD to high bitrate tracks on a proper disc. I will never be able to go back... I am happy to pay a price premium.