21st November 2013, 11:32 AM
You might check the settings on your TV. Try to make sure the image settings aren't "zooming in" on the image, which distorts things. Playing DVDs will have a small black line around them, but I prefer that to a blurry image. As for the "blockiness", that's the codec. DVDs, and Blurays, compress the image, and neither uses a truly lossless compression algorithm. Depending on how much care was taken in creating the transfer, you might have a lot of artifacts during the compression process, or nothing you can notice. Unfortunately, the blame for this is squarely on those making the DVDs and/or Bluray. (There's also the quality of the original film to consider. I have a bluray of Ghostbusters, and unfortunately the original film was not well curated. The image doesn't have a large number of "blocky" artifacts, but it does look very "gritty", as old film would, with no effort to digitally remove that "grit" from the final transfer. On the other hand, my copy of Nausica and the Valley of the Wind looks outstanding, and was a very well done capture done by Disney (with an all-star cast redubbing the whole movie).
I really do recommend Uncharted. It is the closest you'll get to actually playing an Indianna Jones game. I say that as a fan of the old Lucasarts adventure games too.
I really do recommend Uncharted. It is the closest you'll get to actually playing an Indianna Jones game. I say that as a fan of the old Lucasarts adventure games too.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)