DVD VS HD resolution

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2006-03-06 12:54pm

This is just amazing, the website is a comparison of FOTR DVD quality and HD quality. wow.

Check out the differences between this and this. Night and day.

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2006-03-06 01:05pm

Yes. HD is The Sexy. Even the difference between 480i and 720p (by far the most common HD resolution on current TVs, and likely to be the standard for some time, due to the price of proper 1080i/p sets) is enormous.

I love my HDTV.

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2006-03-06 01:25pm

The HD pics seem to be a little darker for some reason...

Post by **Beowulf** » 2006-03-06 06:19pm

Well... There's also the fact that Anamorphic DVDs don't have square pixels. When mapped to be square (for computer monitors) they have a width of 864 pixels. However, the source is actually only 720 pixels wide. This would explain part of why the HD image resized down looks better. It has square pixels.