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>> I've only seen HD stuff in shops, but from what I can tell, there's no
>> visible difference between HD and SD.
>
> That's exactly what I'm talking about. There's really a tremendous
> difference, but you have to notice it by switching back and forth
> between HD and SD.
>
> It's like playing a game with all the graphics turned up, vs playing in
> 256 colors at 640x480.
Well, the shops have all this split-screen stuff, with one side in SD
and the other side in HD. The only difference I can see is that the HD
is very slightly less blurry. But it's a tiny difference - certainly not
worth paying £20,000 for.
> I do like bluray better than hddvd. I'm glad they won.
...there's a difference between them?
>> everybody's going on like it fundamentally transforms your viewing
>> experience. But it's only 4x the resolution.
>
> And digital, meaning no blur or color smear.
Meaning no blur *if* the signal is uncompressed - which it never ever
will be.
In reality, we just swapped analogue distortion for compression
artifacts. (And - if you're talking about transmission - a different
failure mode in case of interference. Although admittedly it takes more
interference now to make it fail.)
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