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: I read it. Which is why I speculate why and how to make newer masters inferior to an earlier HDTV broadcast in video quality. I'm not sure how succesful MPG2 artifacts can be portraying film grain and even have the positive characteristic of retaining detail, but that sure looks to be the...

Nope! Why should one start to believe to see something else, that ones eyes tell you? I haven't tried to fool myself before (well maybe, but that's another subject), so no point in starting now, when middle age is setting in. Are the reviewers at Hometheaterforum, blu-ray.com Highdefdigest or...

If it is not film grain, then I am a firm believer in adding MPG2 artifacts instead of DNR to movies. I haven't watched movie artifacts that looked so good in moving frames. The difference is there and I see it most as enhanced detail in organic material that gets smothered in several instances...

How do one explain then, the HDTV version did not retain that same softness, when comparing detail and filmgrain between blu-ray images http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/6995/lotr8bd.png and images from the HDTV edition? http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/1067/lotr8tv.png