That was not a Denon HD-DVD player, but a Denon DVD player which supports upconverting to 1080i. However, it's a *very* good DVD player. And it should be no surprise that a DVD player with top of the line electronics beats a game machine seconding as a DVD player. However, it should also be said that the 360 really does suck for playing DVDs. The authors here are right. Even a cheap progessive scan DVD player will beat the 360.OTOH: a cheap DVD player doesn't also play games. The 360 does. And does it well.
P.S. CRT HDTVs actually look better and deliever unchallenged picture improvements over LCD and Plasma tvs that can't even display a full 1080i picture because they have a max resolution of 1366x768. That's not to say there aren't 1920x1080 LCD tvs out there but people who have those don't comment on digg.. cause they are out working hard.. to get money.. to afford an expensive ass tv that STILL doesn't deliver an HD picture quality (along with a contrast ratio that's crap on toast) as good as my nice, fairly inexpensive, CRT.
When the firmware update came out for VGA upscaling, I went and bought a cable. It is no better.IMHO, the best way to go is to get a used Xbox, soft-mod it and use that as your front end. It plays DVDs flawlessly.
There's a difference in reporting results as you see them and distorting the tests to get the results the way you want to see them.In this case, they obviously did not use VGA output on the 360. Any "AV person" that knows anything about the 360 would tell you that there is a significant improvement in using VGA out as opposed to Component out on the 360 since the 360 enables DVD-upscaling when using VGA. There is NO upscaling when using Component.This 'benchmark' is terribly flawed.
LOVE my 360, but compared to my normal home DVD player ($300 name brand model from 2004) the 360 looks very poor and is a huge disappointment on my 34" HD set. That said, most wont complain. It's only when you compare it that you see just how poor a job it does.
jmaynardgJan 31, 2007
That was not a Denon HD-DVD player, but a Denon DVD player which supports upconverting to 1080i. However, it's a *very* good DVD player. And it should be no surprise that a DVD player with top of the line electronics beats a game machine seconding as a DVD player. However, it should also be said that the 360 really does suck for playing DVDs. The authors here are right. Even a cheap progessive scan DVD player will beat the 360.OTOH: a cheap DVD player doesn't also play games. The 360 does. And does it well.
whacklyJan 31, 2007
P.S. CRT HDTVs actually look better and deliever unchallenged picture improvements over LCD and Plasma tvs that can't even display a full 1080i picture because they have a max resolution of 1366x768. That's not to say there aren't 1920x1080 LCD tvs out there but people who have those don't comment on digg.. cause they are out working hard.. to get money.. to afford an expensive ass tv that STILL doesn't deliver an HD picture quality (along with a contrast ratio that's crap on toast) as good as my nice, fairly inexpensive, CRT.
beerunifiesJan 31, 2007
Because "actual real people" don't run websites, right?Just sayin'...
agent124Jan 31, 2007
When the firmware update came out for VGA upscaling, I went and bought a cable. It is no better.IMHO, the best way to go is to get a used Xbox, soft-mod it and use that as your front end. It plays DVDs flawlessly.
magikFeb 1, 2007
There's a difference in reporting results as you see them and distorting the tests to get the results the way you want to see them.In this case, they obviously did not use VGA output on the 360. Any "AV person" that knows anything about the 360 would tell you that there is a significant improvement in using VGA out as opposed to Component out on the 360 since the 360 enables DVD-upscaling when using VGA. There is NO upscaling when using Component.This 'benchmark' is terribly flawed.
spankaccountFeb 2, 2007
LOVE my 360, but compared to my normal home DVD player ($300 name brand model from 2004) the 360 looks very poor and is a huge disappointment on my 34" HD set. That said, most wont complain. It's only when you compare it that you see just how poor a job it does.