Heres a screen shot:

SD:


HD:


What you think?

B*GGAR ME!! that was deff worth been woken up for XD even if i did jump miles lol

Now that's quite some difference!

SD = Image + gaussian blur
HD = Image

Yea that's what I thought.

Isn't it just SD = image compressed to SD res then enlarged?

sd = me running the dvd through vlc
hd = me running the 1080p video through vlc

both screenshots were taken in full screen mode

Big difference is indeed now noted.
The difference between Casino Royale on DVD and Casino Royale on Blu-ray is hugely noticeable.

Impressive... most impressive.
HD ftw tbh.

Youre all noobs. Hd = £££ Sd = £ ! there.

Yes, damn my noobnes for buying a free video!?!

HDDVD = el cheapo.

HD is probably cheaper than standard DVD's to be honest

Wouldn't actually be a bad idea to get a dirt cheap player and a load of cheap HD DVD's. But then of course once you have bought what you can that will be it. Blu-Ray is the future of films.

You can pick up a Blu-Ray/HDDVD combi drive for your comp for £60.

HD-DVDs are cheap as hell now theyve died

Sure. What about the decent specs to get the proper use out of it though?

They're all the same, and it's a full DVDRW aswell. Plus, it can play Blu-Ray, so it's not "obsolete".

What?

I'm talking of needing a good graphics card etc etc to be able to even use the HD/Blu-Ray drive properly.

Indeed. That annoys me. Any old graphics card can pump out 1920x1080 at a decent frame rate.
The only reason they need to be powerful is because of all that <I AM INSULTING PEOPLE> encryption.

Ohhh, I misunderstood you, lol. I think all graphics cards from the past 4 years can do it, tbh. There was something about video on the nVid cards, anyway.