Sorry, Ron, you can rationalise all you want, MPEG2 on SD DVD sucks. We are of course talking about technical performance, not subjective perception. If you choose to accept mediocrity that is of course your decision. You just need either to see HD vs SD to accept this or simply do some background reading on MPEG2 artefacts and then go watch some DVDs and all becomes clear. I appreciate that my stance sounds arrogant, but it is based on fact and not delusion.

As tired as you guys must be of me banging on about HD, I, quite frankly, am tired of the "SD Is good enough." chants and it's time for the gloves to come off.

Go look up subjects such as mosquito noise, i-frame pulsing, macro blocking, digital noise reduction, chroma noise, vertical filtering, etc and it doesn't take long to realise that what we have with SD DVD is an artificial mess. We have been given the opportunity to move on from that to transfers that are virtually transparent to the masters they come from. We should embrace that and not sit on the fence rationalising our decisions to accept mediocrity.

Cheers,

Mark

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