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Even if they're not calibrated (heresy!!), they'd probably give you a better idea of the look of the disc on your system. A lot of medium-to-high end laptops also have HDMI outputs, which may give even better results as these "SmartTV" sets aren't as smart as the manufacturers make out.

We have an accord! :D I knew we were on the same page all along. ;) Quite. As a matter of fact I have two laptops from the same manufacturer which are as far as I can manage identically calibrated, and the two screens bear little resemblance. There are all kinds of issues like native...

Very impressive, Malcolm, I'm sorry you think I'm criticising your technical skill. I'm not. I agree 100% with your calls on making those screencaps and presenting them. I know they represent exactly what you would see viewing that specific frame on the original blu-ray. I appreciate that...

I agree that the mouse on/off comparisons are great for comparing DVD to Blu-ray, and if you're looking at screen caps you have to look at the full definition image, not an image reformatted to fit your monitor. However, I still think that any kind of data compression compromises the validity...

But if the Beaver resizes his Blu-ray caps to match his DVD caps, he's compromising the integrity of the image - the resizing involves a resampling of the image - and we don't know if he puts any image processing into his screencaps. As it is, the screencaps on his site are .jpg files -...

Like I said, I don't think screencaps are worthless by any stretch of the imagination - they'll give you an idea of how a movie looks and possibly tip you off about issues, and a review without illustrating screencaps is a painful thing to read (I should know). I just get on my soapbox when I...

But you can't base your opinion of a transfer on a screencap or frozen frame. You're not supposed to see a single frame in isolation, you're supposed to see twenty-four of them every second, and your eye/brain combination interprets them as a homogenous, moving image. Grain will always look...