The nightmare before christmas soundtrack revisited

The nightmare before christmas soundtrack revisited

Try Transformers, No Country for Old Men, Pirates any of the 3 etc. Upscaled DVD is good quality and fine for most people, but I dont agree that it is close to Blu-ray on a 1080p 46 inch display. I know, what a wasted of one of the best looking sets on the market. Build a cheap HTPC with a BD drive, order NetFlix and rip Note also, Im talking about GOOD DVDs being upscaled. Have you seen an OPPO HD981 upscale to 1080P? Its only about 230, but quality of upscale is supposed to be that of 1K ones. Ive never believed upscaling could work all that well data not being there and all that Im an EE. But having used it on our panny TH-58PZ750U, it looks excellent with GOOD DVDs better than much of the HD we get from DirecTV or OTA where our PBS 1080i station probably looks the best. Before my having seen what it does, Id have agreed with you instantly, but not now. But then what night and day means is a matter of taste too. VHS DVD was night and day. Note that I didnt say as good as Blu-Ray, just that OPPO 981 quality upscaling of good DVDs can look very very good indeed. It also plays any region code as well as converts/upscales PAL discs which is something that has been handy on a few disks. I know, upscaling on a good player does look really good, way better than non-upscaled from a 50 player, its a big difference, but I still think that Blu-ray has sharpness, colour saturation and detail that just isnt present on DVD, upscaled or not. I agree good upscaled DVD can rival cable HD which is compressed to crap. Upscaling happens only through the HDMI connection. Actually, our OPPO HD981 has only an HDMI output, so even if I didnt want to upscale, it would be HDMI only anyway. as we learned that toshibas losses from hd-dvd were last year about 900million dollars. Those players cost 150 dollars only because toshiba was eating so much of the cost. A point missed, HD-dvd didnt die until feb. After which the fire sale on hd-dvd started. Its only in mid march that hd-dvd was completely gone from most retail. And blu-ray was the clear winner. Add that to the fact that we are both in a slow retail period, during a slow economy. To compare month to month sales now is false. What about march 08 vs march 07? toshibas 900M the nightmare before christmas soundtrack revisited wasnt due solely to the price cut. the loss is based on all expenses whether manufacturing, distribution, sales, etc. heck, GM and Ford bleed red ink all the time and its not because theyre selling cars at a loss. and remember that the PS3 and Xbox360 were still are? sold below actual production cost. The only reason I have a HD DVD player is because I bought one at Wal-Mart for 1 I always wanted a PS3 because it is the only Blu-Ray player you can buy that support Profile 0, but I couldnt afford it. And I was saving up for a PS3, but gas cost has eaten all of that savings. Now that the sales are gone, I am even less motivated to get a PS3 or any Blu-Ray player. It isnt out of the realm of possibilities that Blu-Ray got a Pyhrric victory. It will be some time before the economy rebounds, and it will be even longer before HDTVs are in over 50% of the homes. By then, something better might be out. By then, maybe we can stream movies. Already my internet connection from my cable company is fast enough to stream a HDTV over-the-air show. It cant be much longer until it is fast enough to stream 1080p streams. I think it will be a while before we can stream uncompressed Blu-ray titles. If you say an average Blu-ray disc is 35GB, a decent home cable connection is 10mbit, that is 35GB/ 25mb/s ideal 100% speed with no overhead 78 hours to download, too slow to stream. With a 25mbit connection it would still take 09 hours to download a 35GB title, again too slow to stream. Youd have to introduce compression which in my opinion ruins the the nightmare before christmas soundtrack revisited point of enjoying HD content.