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Originally Posted by Scottnot
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The simple fact that [an HD Disc] eliminates compression artifacts automatically makes it an improvement on the DVD, even on a standard 480i set.
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That's absurd! |
No it's not absurd. My DVD of Matrix had compression artifacts (especially in the dark scenes) whereas the HD-DVD did not. Therefore I received a visible improvement by upgrading to HD-DVD, even while watching in 480i.
A few more examples where the same was true (the HD-DVD in 480i looked better than the DVD): Blade Runner, Apollo 13, Mission Impossible.
This is the direct result of HD-DVD being encoded at an average 20-25 megabit/s versus DVD only being an average 3-4 megabit/s.