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Sony Blu-ray demo did not look good

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dr pinot

Discussion Starter · Oct 1, 2006

Saw the Sony Blu-Ray demo for the first time at our local Sony Style store yesterday. According to the salesman, it was connected via HDMI to the new SXRD rear projector with 1080p inputs (he stated that when he hooked it up previously to the old SXRD set that only had 1080i inputs and he had selected 1080p mistakenly on the Blu-Ray, that it went haywire and had to be fixed/reset or somehting like that??). It was playing the demo disc. Well, maybe there were some problems with the set-up, but it did not impress me (and I still have my payment being held elsewhere for the Sony when it becomes available) whatsoever. The image did not look crisp, there were some artifacts, things looked a little "pastey" or blurry at times. When the comparison of BR vs DVD on the "scanning splitscreen" came on, they looked a little different from each other but the BR did NOT look better to me. Mildly different, but not necessarily better.

I would assume that the Demo disc was not the problem, for if it was then Sony must be idiots to use it to show off their important new machine. Set-up, then? So, have others seen ultra-crisp, truly impressive images from these Sony store demo's? If so, I will reserve judgement for now. But based on what I saw, if it is representative, I will not be an early adopter.

Robert

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shamus

· #2 · Oct 2, 2006

Something is wrong if you cant see a difference between the BD vs DVD split screen..... Those are always exaggerated, even faked, to show a difference. It has to be set up wrong.

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hibeta

· #3 · Oct 2, 2006

totally diff. experience...sony style store in tampa yesterday....the blu ray demo looked fantastic. fabulous colors...of course the $7k sony tv certainly helped i'm sure.

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wtr_wkr

· #4 · Oct 2, 2006

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Originally Posted by dr pinot
...Sony must be idiots...

How's that for "out of context." But, I could not have said it better myself.

Sony needs to clean up its act. Either provide value (good PQ at a good price) or throw in the towel. Their initial crap has hurt BD and everything else that's HD. First impressions ARE important and that includes J6P.

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paintit77

· #5 · Oct 2, 2006

That sucks. I had high hopes for the Sony. They need to get there act together fast. BR is not ready for prime time.

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JOHNnDENVER

· #6 · Oct 2, 2006

Sony was caught between a rock and a hard place so to speak.

HD-DVD hit the scene. Sony and Samsung to some degree had to make a call based which would have been worse. Giving HD-DVD a near year head start which would of meant 100+ titles behind. Or go a head and release some products to the publci even though they knew they were not quite ready?

I myself think it would of been much worse for Sony, Samsung and Blueray to have waited. The launch actually had so much buzz it took some wind out of HD-DVD for a while.

I think we know it (Blueray) will get and has gotten better.

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wtr_wkr

· #7 · Oct 2, 2006

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Sony was caught between a rock and a hard place so to speak.

HD-DVD hit the scene. Sony and Samsung to some degree had to make a call based which would have been worse. Giving HD-DVD a near year head start which would of meant 100+ titles behind. Or go a head and release some products to the publci even though they knew they were not quite ready?

I myself think it would of been much worse for Sony, Samsung and Blueray to have waited. The launch actually had so much buzz it took some wind out of HD-DVD for a while.

I think we know it (Blueray) will get and has gotten better.

The solution was simple. Since DL BD was not going to be available, all Sony needed to do was use VC1. They would have had PQ equal to HD-DVD. And all BD movies could have looked good if no bad masters were used. It's almost that simple.

Now for the non simple part. Sony would have to eat some M$ crow (re VC1.) They chose to wear pie (MPiEG2.)

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JoeDH

· #8 · Oct 5, 2006

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Saw the Sony Blu-Ray demo for the first time at our local Sony Style store yesterday. According to the salesman, it was connected via HDMI to the new SXRD rear projector with 1080p inputs (he stated that when he hooked it up previously to the old SXRD set that only had 1080i inputs and he had selected 1080p mistakenly on the Blu-Ray, that it went haywire and had to be fixed/reset or somehting like that??). It was playing the demo disc. Well, maybe there were some problems with the set-up, but it did not impress me (and I still have my payment being held elsewhere for the Sony when it becomes available) whatsoever. The image did not look crisp, there were some artifacts, things looked a little "pastey" or blurry at times. When the comparison of BR vs DVD on the "scanning splitscreen" came on, they looked a little different from each other but the BR did NOT look better to me. Mildly different, but not necessarily better.

I would assume that the Demo disc was not the problem, for if it was then Sony must be idiots to use it to show off their important new machine. Set-up, then? So, have others seen ultra-crisp, truly impressive images from these Sony store demo's? If so, I will reserve judgement for now. But based on what I saw, if it is representative, I will not be an early adopter.

Robert

If the split screen demo was from "A Knight's Tale", then I would agree with you. The difference was extraordinarily subtle. That being said, the DVD portion of that clip looked much better than what I get out of my non-upscaling Panasonic XP-30 dvd player at home, so that may be some of the difference. I do believe that the technology is capable of producing better images once it matures a bit more. I am holding off on spending any money until I see the video quality we all desire.

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