I watched Land of the Dead in High Definition last night.

[DjfunkmasterG]

Just keep in mind if you get an UP-res DVD player it isn't true HD. in order to get true HD you have to buy either an HD-DVD player, which I own and love, or a Blu-Ray player, which I also own because of the amount of films released in blu-ray. The format war is still undecided, but in all honesty HD-DVD is the better format, not too mention Shaun of the Dead and the Dawn remake are only exclusive to HD-DVD when they get released as they are both Universal pictures.

[darth los]

Just keep in mind if you get an UP-res DVD player it isn't true HD. in order to get true HD you have to buy either an HD-DVD player, which I own and love, or a Blu-Ray player, which I also own because of the amount of films released in blu-ray. The format war is still undecided, but in all honesty HD-DVD is the better format, not too mention Shaun of the Dead and the Dawn remake are only exclusive to HD-DVD when they get released as they are both Universal pictures. I've read that in the advertisments. That it upconverts to "near" hd quality. What does that mean anyway? That whole thing is confusing. A few years ago they had 720 and that was considered to be hd. Now they have 1080p and they're saying that it's hd. Well which one is it? did 720 cease to qualify as hd when 1080p came out? And what does that mean for the upconversion players? If not hd then what exactly is their resolution?

[acealive1]

i refuse to "upgrade" and buy all my movies over again........i said AGAIN.

[DjfunkmasterG]

Don't have to rebuy everything. Only rebuy what is really worth seeing in HD, or just buy HD movies from this point out. There is no friggin way I would rebuy my collection. I only bought the HD Experience essentials: Batman Begins The Matrix Ultimate Set King Kong Superman Lives Dawn remake Shaun The Departed Goodfellas Casino 300 Transformers Right now I have close to 100 HD titles that is like 1% of my entire DVD collection. Circuit City had $2.99 DVD's this past week so I scooped up about 10 titles alone.

[Griff]

Yep, just HD for the essentials (though I said the same thing about DVD ten years ago). HD-DVD looks spectacular on my 1080p projector, shooting out an image that's about 14 feet from corner to corner. A good quality DVD can still look great upscaled however. I was absolutely flawed by how well the new R2 of CREEPSHOW holds up at near that size. They did a truly remarkable job on that one.

[Mike70]

since my former post i now have seen plenty of tv (supernatural, reaper, and a few others) in HD and all i can say is - wow. the difference is like night and day.

[SymphonicX]

work in HD television production, in editing....I just bought this weekend, two LCD Tvs, one 42" and one 19"...the 42" is a TRUE 1080p Tv....I dunno what you're getting in america but over here they would sell TVs as "HD READY" which basically means its an inferior 1366x768 line panel that down converts a 1080i image and fits it on the screen - comparing that inferior stuff with SD material isn't too impressive to be honest, it only really shines in terms of playing an xbox 360 or something... However with the True 1080p TV, HD stuff looks 3D!!! Seriously yesterday I was watching a nature programme and it looked like I was looking through a window!! Now too **** hot on consumer products though, all I know is that LCD has less chance of burn in with games so that's why I chose it....but the true 1080p panels we have here in the industry will blow you away and are 10000 times better than domestic sets on the market today - but that's what you get when you can afford 10k for a set! Unfortunately however, the xbox 360 that I had was the original one, which runs on component connections, which looked AWFUL on my new TV compared to my old one - ironic! however I exchanged it for an xbox 360 elite with the HDMI connection and its improved vastly and looks amazing.... previous comments about the expense of going HD are correct, but if you're lucky enough to come down with a nasty Kidney defect and thusly get money from your insurance to splash out (like I did!) then you won't regret going HD I reckon. Now in terms of HD stuff over satellite TV or cable, this stuff is heavily compressed - bare in mind that true HD media runs at approx 1gb a second which is compressed down to 15 megs a second through most broadcasters....so for true brilliant HD experience you'd do worse than buying a HD DVD player or Blu ray and watching stuff through that. As for upscaling DVD players, I've never seen on domestically but my initial impression of seeing upscaling at work was that it highlights the impurities more than anything else....