My 360 drive arrived a few days ago so I rushed out and bought the first HD disc I could find that I might actually want - Apollo 13. Would have chosen Serenity but the HMV I went to didn't have it.
Anyway, got home, connected it up to my 46" 1080p Sony X series LCD, set everything up and what do I see? Absolutely appalling video noise, mpeg compression, fuzziness and just a generally dreadful picture quality. The video running in the background of the menus is terrible, not much better than VHS. I couldn't believe it was so bad. I ran a DVD website for 5 odd years, so I like to think I know a good video transfer when I see one.
For reference I took the box arounfd to a friend's house and tried it on his 720p set. It was better but still fuzzy and still embarassing as an HD demo.
Has anyone else bought this disc and can you honestly say this is a vast improvement over the SD-DVD? I would try mine in comparison but it's so old it no longer works. Which also p***ed me off when I found out!
I'm off to HMV today to take it back. Hopefully I'll find something a little more impressive but right now I'm beginning to think I've wasted my money
Lee.
Anyway, got home, connected it up to my 46" 1080p Sony X series LCD, set everything up and what do I see? Absolutely appalling video noise, mpeg compression, fuzziness and just a generally dreadful picture quality. The video running in the background of the menus is terrible, not much better than VHS. I couldn't believe it was so bad. I ran a DVD website for 5 odd years, so I like to think I know a good video transfer when I see one.
For reference I took the box arounfd to a friend's house and tried it on his 720p set. It was better but still fuzzy and still embarassing as an HD demo.
Has anyone else bought this disc and can you honestly say this is a vast improvement over the SD-DVD? I would try mine in comparison but it's so old it no longer works. Which also p***ed me off when I found out!
I'm off to HMV today to take it back. Hopefully I'll find something a little more impressive but right now I'm beginning to think I've wasted my money
Lee.