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sayguh — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:08:35 GMT

Xbox upscales better then PS3? Really since when? Every time I play a DVD in it it plays at 480p? Or are you talking about the HD DVD drive? For some reason I've never tried a regular dvd in the HD DVD drive... is that what does the upscaling? I'll have to give that a try tonight.

But I think PS3 does a great job of upscaling.

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Waethorn — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:00:10 GMT

"I'm not sure what Sony is getting wrong here exactly, but the difference is staggering."

At the risk of taking this conversation on a slightly off-course tangent, why can't Sony perform upscaling to take the PSP's output from 480x272p to a full 720x480i/p NTSC-widescreen resolution so that game output is full screen on a TV?

I mean, the modders already do that, but I'm not about to risk bricking mine to do something that's unsupported. You can even scale video playback with the built-in controls, but game playback via the TV output cable is somewhat broken. Likewise, the wireless functionality is horribly flakey, but that's a completely different story.

Anyway, it seems that Sony is letting technology challenges get the better of them, which is kind of sad considering that they've always been [unjustifiably] deemed the benchmark for other electronics manufacturers. Rob Enderle's latest report describes them in a fairly unfavorable light too....

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matt.brown — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:31:10 GMT

Cfischer83 something must be wrong with your set-up because the only difference between HD DVD and blu-ray is the storage capacity of the disc. Both use similar if not the same video and audio codecs.

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Xtreem0 — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 02:42:02 GMT

those comparisons at bestbuy are bogus. I remember they tried to compare dvd to Blueray and the dvd looked like a vhs move. Everything was fuzzy. I think bestbuy is pushing towards blueray so they are sortove cheeting on the comparasons. I have seen boath of them and on the same tv. They look the same. The only real difference is that blueray can hold more space then hd dvd.

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jaw04005 — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:18:14 GMT

I have the exact opposite experience with upscaling than Paul. On my 1080p Samsung, the PS3 does a much better job upscaling with more consistent colors. However, my XBOX 360 Elite leaves something to be desired.

It could be subjective, and depend on the TV. But, you did turn upscaling on the PS3 on? It's not on by default.

I believe there is "double", "full" and "normal" upscaling. You might try each of those for your particular HDTV. Double works great for me.

In regards to upscaling, we shouldn't really even need such a feature—as our HDTVs should do that properly using their own built-in processing. However, if your HDTV has a lousy SD scaler, you may find better results with an upscaling DVD player (or PS3 or XBOX 360).

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Cfischer83 — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:32:30 GMT

Maybe your TV isn't displaying it accurately? I'm not a fanboi of either, but I can say for certain that blue-ray is a lot more clear than HD! I've watched about a dozen or so blu-ray movies and, except for the few older ones that were converted after the fact, they couldn't get any clearer! I've also seen the two side-by-side at a display in my local Best Buy and after looking at the blue-ray for a minute and moving my eyes back to the HD, the HD looked almost blurry!

I do have my issues with blue-ray though... that being that it's almost too clear! While watching Spiderman 3 I could see every pore and blemish on the actors faces... who wants to see that? :|

but I couldn't care less who wins the format wars... I don't own either (and won't until I can be sure the one I choose won't go under).

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matt.brown — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:47:56 GMT

I have had my sympathies with HD DVD from the beginning, but the price lowering on the blu-ray side is tempting me to pick a blu-ray player up. One format will win (or they will co-exist), because it is not unreasonable now to think that one person would own an HD DVD player and a blu-ray player.