chris said:I've had a 626,525,656,565,360 and they have all had it.
damenace said:Actually that does not put anything into perspective but just shows how desperate you were to get a tiny bit of extra quality.
damenace said:Well, I recently saw LD vs. VHS on a projector and a screen size of 1,5m width and both were inacceptable to me. I could hardly, only just tell a difference between the two and I must say, if the videotape had been of a better quality, they probably would have been equally pathetic.
Sound, yes. But I must say that ProLogic II or NEO:Cinema used on a retail VHS (e.g. I tested it on Star Wars I) comes pretty close to "older" DD recordings.
So, to be honest, LD to me was more hassle than quality improvement. A lot more.
MacReady said:Wow, you must have had a REALLY bad demo of LD if you thought the ProLogicII could be compared to the 'older' DD LD's
damenace said:Well, as someone who never owned LD but has compared LD to VHS, I can safely say, that on a big screen (projector), they are both simply useless. The improvement is marginal.
And the sound is of course better, but if you listen to a DVD with DD5.1 and then watch a well mastered movie like Star Wars I on VHS with NEO:Cinema or ProLogic II, then the difference is not quite as big as one would expect. The LDs I have heard so far were all a bit "dull". A bit of a lack in the upper frequencies.
So, no, I don't think LD was a good format and was definitly not worth the hassle that came with it.
As to layer changes, I find it hard to really say which DVDP is good and which is poor as usually there is a certain spread for standard factory models. Plus, the real fault it usually to be found at the studios that master and manufacture the DVDs.
Can you actually still buy the Pio 575? Haven't seen them for a long time.
damenace said:Can you actually still buy the Pio 575? Haven't seen them for a long time.
Pug72 said:Just to clarify, my Pioneer 575 does not show the layer change AT ALL.
This is not down to myself being insensitive to this as I notice a slight pause on the layer change with my Panasonic and slightly longer again with my Sony player.