{"id":601,"date":"2008-08-06T16:34:57","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T05:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=601"},"modified":"2010-02-11T21:18:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T10:18:56","slug":"close-encounters-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=601","title":{"rendered":"<em>Close Encounters<\/em> comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve done a few BD vs DVD comparison shots for <em>Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/em> now. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hifi-writer.com\/he\/bdreviews\/closeencounters.htm#comparo\">Have a look<\/a>. That, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hifi-writer.com\/he\/bdreviews\/almostfamous.htm#comparo\"><em>Almost Famous<\/em><\/a>, makes two comparisons unmediated by having to take photos from a screen. So far, the DVD looks dreadful by comparison.<\/p>\n<p>It could have looked worse. For these comparisons I have been using <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/mpc-hc\/\">Media Player Classic<\/a>, an open source product suggested by Simon, to grab the Blu-ray shots. It&#8217;s a bit hit or miss, at least on my computer, but the end pictures are rather nice. I also tried to use it for DVDs, but unfortunately in grabbing the shots it seemed to rely on the progressive\/interlace flag recorded in the video stream, and performed some deinterlacing of its own which reduced picture resolution. So I have been using Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra 8 for the DVDs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve done a few BD vs DVD comparison shots for Close Encounters of the Third Kind now. Have a look. That, with Almost Famous, makes two comparisons unmediated by having to take photos from a screen. So far, the DVD &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=601\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,16,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}