There are supposed to be 3 comments, but I don't see any?
Anyway, Best Buy does this too: HDMI cable compared with a composite cable, but they advertise it under the guile of "Blu Ray vs. DVD" when the DVD is bringing a knife to a gun fight. The DVD side exhibited terrible motion jag -- I doubt it was even in progressive scan mode.
Most people would not be able to tell a difference on a 42" LCD between an upscaled DVD and a Blu Ray over HDMI. Color depth on bright, outdoors scenes is the biggest difference imho.
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There are supposed to be 3 comments, but I don't see any?
Anyway, Best Buy does this too: HDMI cable compared with a composite cable, but they advertise it under the guile of "Blu Ray vs. DVD" when the DVD is bringing a knife to a gun fight. The DVD side exhibited terrible motion jag -- I doubt it was even in progressive scan mode.
Most people would not be able to tell a difference on a 42" LCD between an upscaled DVD and a Blu Ray over HDMI. Color depth on bright, outdoors scenes is the biggest difference imho.
Considering you can't use composite cables to display progressive content, I would bet you are correct.