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In Reply to: Oh, give us a break! posted by Charles Hansen on February 11, 2007 at 09:25:55:
is off to an auspicious start, but, there is one significant difference between these video formats and the format wars between DVD-A/SACD vs. CD: anyone can readily see the difference in picture quality on a capable set, while the advantages of high definition audio were, by comparison, much more subtle.
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< < anyone can readily see the difference in picture quality on a capable set > >Please read the review of the Toshiba HD-1 in issue 110 of Widescreen Review. These guys are far more critical than the average joe, but even they said that the improvement between HD and properly upscaled SD was marginal.
I saw the Sony demonstration video on their Qualia SXRD set at CEDIA (the set I own) and I have never seen a picture from SD sources that comes close to the kind of definition. The closest comparison would be good PAL DVDs (they tend to look better than the NTSC stuff we get here in the US).Still, I will be sitting on the fence for a while because I, too, suspect this is a war with two losers.
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