Personally, I like ultra clear, cool colors, and higher frame rate. Also, the proportions on DVDs vs Blu-ray should be the same unless the transfer was done incorrectly
Can a movie or tv show look to clear on blue-ray or dvd?
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As Michael Chris alluded to above, proportionality has nothing to do with the blu-ray storage format, only the authoring process the film went through for home video use. The advantage of blu-ray is higher storage capacity which affords a higher bitrate to the audio and visual components of the movie. This results in higher resolution, much richer colours and more audible & separated sound channels.
Theoretically, you could encode a movie at 4K for home use (4k = 4x1080p resolution = film resolution) and we would get the ``true home theatre experience as the director intended.`` However this would require much higher storage capacity than blu-ray affords (50GB dual layer).
The only solution to this is hard drives. However, even with a 1TB hard drive, you`re severely limited to the amount of 2k (bluray) content you could put on there, let alone 4k! On top of this, the physical integrity of hard drives is difficult to ensure in the long-term. Over time, hard drives become worn out, possibly get knocked around, magnetic interference, etc...
Blu-Ray on the other hand provides us a physical medium that is highly durable. It has a highly scratch-resitant coating, which if you ever buy movies previously viewed have probably noted that blu-rays NEVER are scratched, whereas DVDs and HD-DVDs often were.
Blu-rays are also portable, which due to our current Internet infrastructure is also great. Currently, and likely for the next 10-20 years, I don`t see our infrastructure going to fiber optic that will allow for high data transfer rates that HD content will need to be delivered on-demand. Blu-ray solves this issue of portability by being physicall small, capable of storing large amounts of information and being highly durable.
Also make sure your DVD player's settings are correct. If there's a constant problem of images looking squashed, I'd suspect that it's set for the wrong kind of television (4:3 vs. 16:9).
If you've looked up any DVD vs. Blu-Ray images, you'll notice this is all across the board. Blu-Ray corrects the image. Those Amadeus shots are also proof of this. The Terminator 2 examples showed the same thing (though the colorization differences were even more dramatic). You honestly will not notice this most of the time until you see the Blu-Ray screencap right beside it. The '68 Comeback screencap is useful in that it's noticeable even without a high definition source beside it.
The squishing is not because of a screen setting.
The DVD will look totally normal and proportionate until you see the comparison and realize just how far off it is.
Here's another example that focuses on what this does to faces:
As you can see here (and this is absolutely what I've noticed having seen both the DVD and Blu-Ray), the proportions of the shot do, in fact, change, even beyond just clarity and colors.
The squishing is not because of a screen setting.
The DVD will look totally normal and proportionate until you see the comparison and realize just how far off it is.
Here's another example that focuses on what this does to faces:
As you can see here (and this is absolutely what I've noticed having seen both the DVD and Blu-Ray), the proportions of the shot do, in fact, change, even beyond just clarity and colors.
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Your images aren't showing. However, they are the same. There are occassionally issues with programs not putting off the correct aspect ratio.
They should be showing.
And they are most certainly not even close to being the same. Look at the width of Jeffrey Jones' face (not to mention the blue-blacks of the DVD, the pink skin being corrected and the vibrancy of the reds and yellows). I can vouch and say that that accurately reflects the proportions of the DVD and Blu-Ray images.
And they are most certainly not even close to being the same. Look at the width of Jeffrey Jones' face (not to mention the blue-blacks of the DVD, the pink skin being corrected and the vibrancy of the reds and yellows). I can vouch and say that that accurately reflects the proportions of the DVD and Blu-Ray images.
Which is reflective of the title not the technology. I love Blu-ray, but yeah.
What program did you use for the screencap?
I didn't take these screencaps. It's from a DVD vs. Blu-Ray site.
http://www.originalprop.com/blog/?p=1072
http://www.originalprop.com/blog/?p=1072
It's probably just a problem with the screencap software they used. I'll pull up my DVD of T2 for that scene see what it shows.
Okay, here's a different title:
The top is Blu-Ray, the bottom is DVD.
See, now I *know* the standard DVD player's settings are wrong. It should not look like that. DVDs don't just screw up the aspect ratio like that. Somebody forgot to adjust their DVD player for the kind of TV that they have (either 4:3 or 16:9).
Then it is very likely it was done incorrectly. Because DVDs are stretched if the screencap is done incorrectly it will screw up the aspect ratio.
Those DVD vs. Blu-Ray examples were done by entirely different sites by entirely different posters.
Some DVDs are better than others (some are 480px like that Terminator 2 and some are 720px--Blu-Ray is 1080px). That Amadeus DVD is certainly way closer to the Blu-Ray (in the ballpark, at least) than the change between the Terminator 2 transfers (dramatic).
Some DVDs are better than others (some are 480px like that Terminator 2 and some are 720px--Blu-Ray is 1080px). That Amadeus DVD is certainly way closer to the Blu-Ray (in the ballpark, at least) than the change between the Terminator 2 transfers (dramatic).
^ So? Whoever did the DVD one, got it wrong. It's self-evident.
