22 thousand dollar smackaroonies?
Hell too the naw, I ain't rich!
[QUOTE=alien_guy;37357890]"LG's screen offers 8 million pixels per frame, four times the resolution of 1080p high-definition displays."
1920x2 = 3840
1080x2 = 2160[/QUOTE]
Of course they will. Easy marketing. Even now HD is usually the term, 720 or 1080, i or p. People enjoy being ignorant.
looks like they are going with UD (Ultra-Definition)
[QUOTE=mac338;37356379]I've never understood why you'd need a big TV if you only use it to watch movies and TV, personally. 720p is more then enough for me to see everything I need to see. Hell I'd suffice with 480p. You get a few extra pixels but they have, in my opinion, never added to the experience of a movie or TV for me. It adds no practical value and is for all intensive purposes a gimmick-y reason to upgrade from your previous TV and a marketing ploy directed towards a susceptible consumer culture.[/QUOTE]
Well I don't know about that; the difference between a 480p DVD and a 1080p Blu-Ray is absolutely night and day for me.
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;37358130]Well I don't know about that; the difference between a 480p DVD and a 1080p Blu-Ray is absolutely night and day for me.[/QUOTE]
What is it that makes the difference important?
[QUOTE=mac338;37358152]What is it that makes the difference important?[/QUOTE]
You can actually see detail.
[IMG]http://www.visualmediaproductions.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/dvd-vs-bluray-full.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=mac338;37358152]What is it that makes the difference important?[/QUOTE]
Well, it depends on the movie you're watching and how much importance you put on the clarity of the image. Something like Shawshank Redemption doesn't benefit as much from a HD release (though goddamn does it look good) as much as...say...Lord of the Rings does. At any rate, a good blu-ray transfer has an exceptional amount of detail that you'd never see on a DVD, as well as a near-total lack of artifacts or distortion, especially in scenes with a lot of movement.
Here's a good comparison:
[t]http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/5367/1431b27b.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=alien_guy;37358187]You can actually see detail.
[IMG]http://www.visualmediaproductions.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/dvd-vs-bluray-full.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
That's not a very good example
[t]http://imgkk.com/i/g-dv.png[/t]
click for full size
[QUOTE=smurfy;37358231]That's not a very good example
[t]http://imgkk.com/i/g-dv.png[/t]
click for full size[/QUOTE]
Feels wasteful to put so much money into that little extra detail and sharpness, if I have something functioning anyway. And the resources - electronics, plastic etc. - that I'd throw away if I did. I guess that's just me. If I had money for an expensive fancy TV I'd rather spend it on travelling to some nice or exotic place, and getting some experience for life.
[QUOTE=mac338;37358282]Feels wasteful to put so much money into that little extra detail and sharpness, if I have something functioning anyway. And the resources - electronics, plastic etc. - that I'd throw away if I did. I guess that's just me. If I had money for an expensive fancy TV I'd rather spend it on travelling to some nice or exotic place, and getting some experience for life.[/QUOTE]
You already have a 720p TV so a new set is not necessary. You can get a decent blu-ray player for under $100, and a blu-ray release is usually no more than $5 more than the DVD release.
Shit, I'd love to go on a nice vacation too but this isn't expensive.
The one chart to rule them all:
[img]http://eduardoangel.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/technoid-h265-hvec-standard-res.jpg[/img]
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[img]http://swhomevid.site40.net/avatarcomparison.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=alien_guy;37358187]You can actually see detail.
[IMG]http://www.visualmediaproductions.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/dvd-vs-bluray-full.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
sensationalist bullshit
Blu-ray doesn't magically add detail to things, all it does is allow for higher resolution video for longer periods of time
You could put 1080p video on a DVD if you really wanted to.
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/UHDTV.svg[/t]
Well time to wait for [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_High_Definition_Television"]Ultra High Definition[/URL] to hit the public market
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;37358427]sensationalist bullshit
Blu-ray doesn't magically add detail to things, all it does is allow for higher resolution video for longer periods of time
You could put 1080p video on a DVD if you really wanted to.[/QUOTE]
Well you can fit 4.7 GB on a single-layered DVD, you could fit a movie on it but not any extras.
Plus I think that is fairly good comparison, it's better than the ones where one side is washed out and the other is in full colour.
Regardless of the advantages I personally feel it's a totally unnecessary luxury, and find satisfaction in a lifestyle on simple basics that I just repair when broken, instead of buying new stuff all the time.
There's no point. Nothing's released higher than 1920x1080 and if a movie was we'd need something with more space than Blu-Rays. I can forsee SDD/Hard Drive rentals for a SSD/HDD player if we did. Furthermore, 1920x1080 starts to look worse after you pass the 50 inch size. Looks perfect at 46"
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[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;37358427]sensationalist bullshit
Blu-ray doesn't magically add detail to things, all it does is allow for higher resolution video for longer periods of time
You could put 1080p video on a DVD if you really wanted to.[/QUOTE]
This guy speaks the truth. Blu-Ray is just more space, for higher resolutions/frame rates/less compression/ than normal DvDs
Its gonna get harder and harder to actually get that tv to your house
[QUOTE=alien_guy;37358369]The one chart to rule them all:
[img]http://eduardoangel.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/technoid-h265-hvec-standard-res.jpg[/img]
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[img]http://swhomevid.site40.net/avatarcomparison.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
woah
4k kinda looks like a really good videogame :v:
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;37358427]sensationalist bullshit
Blu-ray doesn't magically add detail to things, all it does is allow for higher resolution video for longer periods of time
You could put 1080p video on a DVD if you really wanted to.[/QUOTE]
It's not sensationalist at all. Without the high storage space on Blu-Ray, a full-length, minimally compressed 1080p movie with a high-definition audio track would simply not be possible to fit on a disc. Hell, take a look at the Blu-Ray edition of Avatar; it has literally zero special features, but it takes up the entirety of a 50GB Blu-Ray disc. Even with the special edition which puts the theatrical and extended cuts on the same disc, you're looking at approximately 24GB per edition of the movie.
So yeah, Blu-Ray doesn't magically add detail, but as a format it DOES possess the required storage space to contain a full length film in 1080p, something that a DVD is not capable of.
LG can try to boast their 4K, but no advertising scheme can make me switch from my 480i television.
Though playing RE4 on it's not very easy with black bars on the top and bottom. And the flickering.
I skipped blu ray because it's going to be superseded by something soon and I'd rather spend not a lot on DVD's and be able to watch them almost anywhere (seriously one of my friends owns a blu ray player, that's it). Absolute detail in video isn't as drastic as these still comparisons would lead you to believe
[QUOTE=Trogdon;37374683]I skipped blu ray because it's going to be superseded by something soon and I'd rather spend not a lot on DVD's and be able to watch them almost anywhere (seriously one of my friends owns a blu ray player, that's it). Absolute detail in video isn't as drastic as these still comparisons would lead you to believe[/QUOTE]
Not to mention digital copies. Carrying video around on a decently sized flash drive isn't very hard.
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