21st November 2013, 2:30 AM
Dark Jaguar Wrote:Upscaling, ultimately, doesn't really improve anything. The DVD is still displaying images at "standard" resolution, the pixels are only being "doubled" to make the TV display it as a 1080 HD image. No real improvement happens there. Essentially "upscaling" doesn't improve an image like some CSI "enhance" program that magically draws out a license plate number from an original image that was far too blurry to derive specific letters from. Bluray is actually using image stock at 1080, recaptured from the original film in most cases, so you're actually getting an HD image.
Damn. :( I brought a DVD to a friend's house and it seemed like the quality was higher, but it must have been an illusion. He's got a bigger TV, placed a further distance back than my own, so maybe that had something to do with it. Oddly enough, quality seems to vary between DVDs. Some get this kind of pixelated effect, while others look fine. Maybe it's my TV?
Quote:I should warn you, Silent Hill 5 is generally panned by critics and fans alike. One big mistake they made was using the Unreal game engine, so the game looks like every other game, far too glossy and shiny for a Silent Hill game. I would recommend Ni No Kuni, the Uncharted series, The Last of Us, and the Batman games, for starters. There's also a massive pileup of surprisingly awesome "indie" games just waiting to be snatched up for really low prices, but most of these are also on the PC and really don't require a very powerful machine.
Thanks for the recs, I've heard great things about Uncharted. Too bad about Silent Hill 5. :(