http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/sharp-aquos-lc-52le700un-impressions/ Engadget Comments for Sharp AQUOS LC-52LE700UN impressions http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/sharp-aquos-lc-52le700un-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/sharp-aquos-lc-52le700un-impressions/Oct 13th 2009 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/sharp-aquos-lc-52le700un-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/sharp-aquos-lc-52le700un-impressions/
The quality of streaming services have been improving every few months and I bet by next year it will match Blu-ray on several platforms.

People need to understand that a 1080p video and a lower bitrate can look identical as 40mbps video. I know, A SHOCKER.

And here's the proof:

Xylon is recognized enthusiast especially on AVS Forums who takes screenshots and have been doing comparisons with DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray for some time now.

http://forums.highdefdigest.com/blu-ray-software-general-discussion/65214-transformers-comparison-pix.html

Transformers HD DVD version was 50% lower bitrate and the quality is IDENTICAL to Blu-ray version.

Transfomers HD DVD File size: 25 GB Total Bitrate (includes audio): 25.03 mbps - Video bitrate alone: 20.54mbps

Transformers BD - File size: 41.40 GB Total Bitrate (includes audio): 41.34 Mbps - Video bitrate alone: 31.43mbps

Both movies are encoded with AVC (h.264)

Reviews from High Def Digest and other renowned sites have given them identical marks in PQ as well.

Considering that HDX peaks at 20mbps, it's not hard to see how the quality might be virtually identical on TVs around 50" and below.

Anyone who claims otherwise is deluding themselves as you won't see the difference guaranteed. The fact that you want to see some difference just tells about the state of one's mind. But I guess people can believe whatever they want and if you MUST know that you have bitrate through the roof that's fine, but don't go dissing things out of bias.

And I will challenge people to recognize on "blind" PQ tests on footage with various bitrates just to prove a point that you can't see the difference.

I say this because I have movies from my Blu-ray discs encoded at around 20mbps and they look identical to originals after many tests with different personal encode settings.]]>Oct 13th 2009 11:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/sharp-aquos-lc-52le700un-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/sharp-aquos-lc-52le700un-impressions/
My general feeling is this: if I'm going to pay this much money for a television, and for content for it, I'd like it looking as good as possible even if it's unlikely that I'd be able to tell the difference between something encoded at 20mbps and something encoded at 40mbps.

We, consumers, are paying for quality content, and we should be demanding it. As far as Xylon and the Transformers comparison goes: what was left out of that is that the HD DVD version sacrificed lossless audio (it only included Dolby Digital Plus) to up the video bitrate. I suspect if they'd included Dolby TrueHD on the HD DVD version and dropped the video bitrate to compensate we'd have seen some bigger differences in that comparison. As for Blu-ray Disc vs. streaming; I'm not buying in to something that requires me to have an ultra fast internet connection that's never busy doing other things. Unless you have network management in place to prioritize streaming over downloads or other things you'll hit hiccups in playback as soon as someone in another part of the house decides to download the latest Windows service pack (or some non-streaming movie or music).]]>Oct 14th 2009 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/sharp-aquos-lc-52le700un-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/sharp-aquos-lc-52le700un-impressions/
And I compared to HD DVD cause those are the 2 highest quality versions of the same movie with same codec with different bitrates. It was just a point.

As far as audio, again, in the example of Transformers as well, lossy DD+ still holds excellent against TrueHD track on Blu-ray version. Reviewers only noted that on a specific sound system the audio was just a tad louder with TrueHD. So this tells you that even with TrueHD and DTS-MA or LPCM the audio difference is negliable and it's mostly hype. Sure the bitrate is much higher but in real life on excellent system with blind tests even people who are audiophiles couldn't distuingish DTS 1.5 and DD+ vs DTS-MA or TrueHD.

It all comes down to source and in the case of audio it's the mix and in the case of video it's the original transfer. Bitrate is absolutely less relevant. Sure, you can't expect to have ]]>Oct 14th 2009 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/sharp-aquos-lc-52le700un-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/sharp-aquos-lc-52le700un-impressions/Oct 13th 2009 8:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/sharp-aquos-lc-52le700un-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/sharp-aquos-lc-52le700un-impressions/Oct 13th 2009 9:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/sharp-aquos-lc-52le700un-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/sharp-aquos-lc-52le700un-impressions/Oct 13th 2009 11:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/sharp-aquos-lc-52le700un-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/sharp-aquos-lc-52le700un-impressions/
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If so, I haven't seen it and I've looked at just about every one of them. It's true that this television doesn't have a great online experience, but the amazing part is that all of that can be updated with firmware. Sharp has shown that they are going to make improvements with their new UV2A technology.

All of those bells and whistles may be great, but picture quality is the most important part, how it looks, how it works, and if you're blown away whenever you turn it on.

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