Spudsy2061

The reason Blu-Ray "won" the war between them and HD-DVD is because no one wanted to by and HD DVD player for a high price only to know that it's not the highest resolution possible and then have to by all the movies over again.

The HD DVD format supports a wide variety of resolutions, from low-resolution CIF and SDTV, all video resolutions supported by the DVD-Video standard, and up to HDTV formats such as 720p, 1080i and 1080p.[46] HD DVD supports video encoded in MPEG-2 which is what is used in DVDs as well as the new formats VC-1 and AVC which are more efficient. All movie titles released so far have had the feature encoded in 1080p, with most supplements in 480i or 480p. Almost all titles are encoded with VC-1, and most of the remaining titles encoded with AVC.

Upscaling DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) Players are a reasonably cheap way of upscaling standard DVD-Video discs using a video scaler to match the pixel count of the signal to the physical, or native, pixel count on a high-definition television or computer monitor, resulting in better detail and color consistency. Standalone DVD players which feature upscaling use either a standard component video, VGA analog cable, DVI-D or HDMI digital cable to connect to the high-definition television. Standalone DVD players with component video or VGA output connectors use a digital-to-analog integrated circuit microchip which does the upscaling, while DVD players with DVI-D or HDMI output connectors use a digital-to-digital integrated circuit microchip which does the upscaling. Computer software DVD-Video players like PowerDVD and WinDVD also features upscaling of DVD-Video.

It is important to note, as mentioned above, that most flat panel televisions internally employ upscaling filters to scale various input resolutions to their target resolutions, i.e an upscaling DVD player is not required to watch DVD video (standard definition) on a high definition flat panel TV.

Further, TVs employ some kind of overscan correction and often upscale images by around four percent and weed out the edges of incoming video, primarily due to historical reasons (some televisions have options not to do this, often called dot to dot or 1:1 mode). As a result, upscaling DVD players that change the output from the native 480 line ouptut of DVDs result in two scaling operations being used to display the final image (instead of the single operation within the TV itself). This often negates the advantages of scaling from within the DVD player, which for technical reasons can be superior to the TVs internal scaler. The DVD player has access to MPEG metadata for each frame of video (interlaced/progressive, motion vectors, etc.) which allow a better deinterlacer and chroma upsampler (these steps are part of the scaling process) than the TV which no longer receives this information.

ShinAkuma

No, I didn't do that Dias, but I'll try. The animepaper backgrond shows up but no scan. sometimes the error "404 impossible to show the page" shows up too. I think I'm gonna pass... no need for this scan now, I lost motivation.

trismugistus

All we can really do is refer you to the FAQ stickied at the top of problems and suggestions and also to the guide. Generally this problem occurs, as mentioned due to inappropriate browser (ie using IE and not firefox); security programs blocking images (such as firewalls--zonealarm and mcafee being typical culprits) a full cache (hence the advice to log out, clear all cookies and cach and then log back in again) or another technical problem. If it is a problem on your end, we would urge you to seek the help of a friend in person or contact your technical support, as there's not much we can do.

ShinobiFist

Is bad enough that I can't put individual pictures(Wallpapers) on each blade. Is freaking ridiculous that a Gamerpicture pack(Comes with 5 pics) cost 100 MS points, while a episode of Avatar goes for 160 MS points, doesn't make any sense. Ohter then that rant, is very organize and easy to use...Just like a MAC. Love the whole private chat thing, and updates on LIVE are less of a headache then the PSN.