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Old 08-13-2008, 02:16 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by electrictroy View Post
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.
You got a HD DVD player?
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