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[TheBoy]

A very, very good upscaler can perceive to be close to full HD (1080p), but when watched side-by-side, the extra detail is normally obvious.

Casino Royale, as it happens, isn't a great example, as titles aside, the difference between the DVD and BR versions isn't that huge.

An upscaler doesn't replace the detail that's been lost earlier in the chain (or never captured).  It may reduce jagged edges but it can't do much more.

Exactly, but most upscalers are pretty sub-standard.  The very best make some clever judgements about filling in missing info, hence my 'perceive' comment.

Though BR quality is dependent upon the detail being there in the first place, and I don't think the Casino Royale BR is that much better than upscaled DVD during the film (very noticable during title sequence though)

[Martin_1962]

no point in asking me , i'm still on betamax!!

Mind you that beat Vhs on picture quality!

True - but the choice of videos is getting a bit limited thesedays !

CHoice well I have the choice of

Sony SLF1
Sony SLHF950
Sanyo VTCM40

Or do you mean tapes - mine are mainly in the loft after being MPEGed

[feeutfo]

A very, very good upscaler can perceive to be close to full HD (1080p), but when watched side-by-side, the extra detail is normally obvious.

Casino Royale, as it happens, isn't a great example, as titles aside, the difference between the DVD and BR versions isn't that huge.

An upscaler doesn't replace the detail that's been lost earlier in the chain (or never captured).  It may reduce jagged edges but it can't do much more.

Exactly, but most upscalers are pretty sub-standard.  The very best make some clever judgements about filling in missing info, hence my 'perceive' comment.

Though BR quality is dependent upon the detail being there in the first place, and I don't think the Casino Royale BR is that much better than upscaled DVD during the film (very noticable during title sequence though)

Have def. noticed that some BR are more BR than others. Cheap skates....Transformers, jaw dropping quality imho. Flags of our fathers.....  Rubbish, seen better on dvd.

[Boiler Man]

I have noticed a big difference in quality between Bluray disks

As said previously, a lot of Bluray transfers are rubbish and a con.

I bought a BR copy of Full Metal Jacket and it was worse than the version I'd seen on telly the week before

I took it back and got a copy from a different version and the change was instant.

This site is pretty good at rating not only the film, the quality of the copy transfer
http://www.avforums.com/movies/

[AndersH]

As people have mentioned, the size of the screen makes a lot of difference. I have an HD projector - only 720p but project to about 103 inches and the difference between HD and non HD is huge on that sort of scale, even though it's not 1080p. A lot of people can't tell the difference between 720p and 1080p on anything smaller than 42 inches.