classicsat
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You may not notice the difference directly in PQ, but may in features of moves, features of the player (especially network connected ones), and that at some point, new movies will only be released on Blu-ray,
As UHD tv's come out and the continuing improvement to 3d, dvd will not stay around any longer, but blu-ray will for some time.
- Blu-ray > DVD.
- You can still get blu-rays cheap, best buy tends to have sales the most where the price drops to $9.99 or $5.99 or $3.99 and best buy has this deal every so often where every dvd you trade in you get $5,00 off from a blu-ray purchase.ect
= You will not notice the difference without having a hd-tv, hd-receiver+with surround speakers, using a hd cable like hdmi, and using a device capable of outputting+playing hd disk/file.
Blu-ray.
- Can be up to 1920x1080 resolution (16:9 aspect ratio) = 2,073,600 pixels. Can support bit depths (color quality) up to 48-60, and soon produces will start using higher fps/hz than DVD's.
- Can be up to 7.1 at 24 bit/sample depth and 96,000 hz sample rate OR 5.1 surround sound at 24 bit/sample depth and 192,000 hz sample rate. = Surround sound formats: Up to DTS-HD-MA at 24.5 Mbps OR up to Dolby TrueHD at 18.0 Mbps OR DTS-HD-HR/Dolby Digital Plus up to 6.0 Mbps OR DTS at 1,536 kbps (or 1,509 kbps) OR Dolby Digital at 640 kbps.
DVD.
- Can be up to 720x480 (NTSC countries) resolution (3:2 aspect ratio) = 345,600 pixels OR up to 720x576 (PAL/SECAM countries) resolution (5:4 aspect ratio) = 414,720 pixels. Can support bit depths (color quality) up to 8-24-32, and fps/hz up to 24p or 30p / 50i or 60i.
- Can be up to 5.1 surround sound at 24 bit/sample depth and 48,000 hz sample rate. = Surround sound formats: Up tp DTS at 1,536 kbps (or 1,509 kbps, but I think on DVD it may only be 768 kbps or 512 kbps for DTS) OR up to Dolby Digital at 448 kbps.
- Blu-ray > DVD.
- You can still get blu-rays cheap, best buy tends to have sales the most where the price drops to $9.99 or $5.99 or $3.99 and best buy has this deal every so often where every dvd you trade in you get $5,00 off from a blu-ray purchase.ect
= You will not notice the difference without having a hd-tv, hd-receiver+with surround speakers, using a hd cable like hdmi, and using a device capable of outputting+playing hd disk/file.
Blu-ray.
- Can be up to 1920x1080 resolution (16:9 aspect ratio) = 2,073,600 pixels. Can support bit depths (color quality) up to 48-60, and soon produces will start using higher fps/hz than DVD's.
- Can be up to 7.1 at 24 bit/sample depth and 96,000 hz sample rate OR 5.1 surround sound at 24 bit/sample depth and 192,000 hz sample rate. = Surround sound formats: Up to DTS-HD-MA at 24.5 Mbps OR up to Dolby TrueHD at 18.0 Mbps OR DTS-HD-HR/Dolby Digital Plus up to 6.0 Mbps OR DTS at 1,536 kbps (or 1,509 kbps) OR Dolby Digital at 640 kbps.
DVD.
- Can be up to 720x480 (NTSC countries) resolution (3:2 aspect ratio) = 345,600 pixels OR up to 720x576 (PAL/SECAM countries) resolution (5:4 aspect ratio) = 414,720 pixels. Can support bit depths (color quality) up to 8-24-32, and fps/hz up to 24p or 30p / 50i or 60i.
- Can be up to 5.1 surround sound at 24 bit/sample depth and 48,000 hz sample rate. = Surround sound formats: Up tp DTS at 1,536 kbps (or 1,509 kbps, but I think on DVD it may only be 768 kbps or 512 kbps for DTS) OR up to Dolby Digital at 448 kbps.