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Originally Posted by Tom Pfarr
More Pearl viewing....
Got the HD-DVD of "Grand Prix". This is the new eye candy reference disk if you can believe it. This is the best transfer of a 65mm film you've ever seen. Absolutely clean throughout, it pops off the screen.
I would die and go to heaven if a 2001:Space Odyssey transfer could look this good.
Watched "Lost" on ABC 720p HD OTA. Probably the best/most detailed HD production on TV. The outdoor scenes are just gorgeous.
The HD-DVD for Terminator 3 is just so-so. A disappointment for a modern big-budget film. Not really any better than the DVD.
12 hours on the bulb already.........
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Tom,
Keep those comments coming. They are very much appreciated. I've always contended that nothing can substitute for reports from actual users of HT gear. They are real, to the point, and based on facts, not statistics. And now that you have a state of the art display you are finding out something that I also discovered about some of the new HD media (not limited to just HD-DVD or to Blu-ray since that's an argument for another time in another place and not here): There is some HD content on discs that really doesn't look any better than some DVDs. The problem is with the source material and how it was prepared for distribution. While the promise of HD media is greater than SD media, that promise is not always realized but this situation will improve over time (just as it did for SD). When I've stated to some people that I have a lot of SD DVDs that you might mistake for HD content, I mean what I say. Of course my display and my external video processor have something to do with all that.
On a side note, something I mentioned earlier in this message got me to thinking to add a "sticky" message at the top of the CEDIA 2006 coverage section to indicate where we would like the threads from this area to end up. Some have become quite active and contain a lot of great contributions from people like yourself. Look for the announcement elsewhere.
Carry on!