Oh you guys meant slow boot times... I was thinking he meant slow video lol... Well I do it through HTPC so boot is fast if I am in standby, slow otherwise
My TV is only 720p (Pioneer 504HDE - almost 5 years old) and the difference in pic quality is huge! You need to have an eye for detail... staring at the screen as a whole might not look too different, but just look at the features on faces, faces in the background, hairs, bricks on houses, details on leaves and scenery etc... and tell me you don't notice a big difference. I am not saying DVDs are not watchable - they do look terrible on my dell 2407 compared to HD content - but they are generally watchable from distance.
Originally Posted by jimborae
with some transfers the difference between HD and SD is almost negliable.
Agree with you there... if they did a bad job at transferring, you can't blame the technology. The average quality HD-DVD is much better than the best quality DVD. I have seen some terrible DVD transfers too...