HD DVD / Randomness...Peter Torr's blog on HD DVD, JScript, the Pet Shop Boys, and anything else he feels like blogging.Wikipedia editing- September 30, 2007 Short post: In the interests of full disclosure, I've started editing Wikipedia on various topics related to HD DVD. Initially I made several "anonymous" edits, but decided to create an account for transparency and so I can "watch" pages as they change. Basically I am just posting this here so nobody "discovers" my edits in the future and claims this is some "hidden agenda" by Microsoft to "lend credibility" by faking "grass roots" spin. Whatever. Anyway, I'll still be doing the majority of my.http://blogs.msdn.com/ptorr/archive/2007/09/30/wikipedia-editing.aspx Why Old Films Still Benefit from High-Def- September 26, 2007 Every now and then, I hear people make comments like "Movies more than 5 years old won't look any better in HD because they were shot before HD was invented the movie studios are lying to you about better quality!" This is horribly, horribly, horribly wrong, and I'm not quite sure where this idea stems from. A "Full HD" image (as the marketing people like to call it) is 1920 pixels wide by 1080 pixels high. Now that sounds like an awful lot of pixels (especially compared to Standard...http://blogs.msdn.com/ptorr/archive/2007/09/26/why-old-films-still-benefit-from-high-def.a... |