On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 03:58:40 GMT, "RCMe" <RCMe@wi.rr.com> wrote:

>As I read this thread, I couldn't help but be a bit curious...

>

>I have no personal experience with HDTV, but I have a DV camcorder and have

>made a few DVDs (MPEG2) from DV. However, I have been thinking about getting

>a widescreen, HDTV (mostly for watching DVDs). A couple of questions come to

>mind (sorry if this is newby stuff).

>

>1) Based on the comments in this thread, how do today's commercial DVDs look

>on HDTV? Since today's commercial DVDs are MPEG2 encoded (using the same

>technology as DVD (MPEG2) encoded from DV from my camcorder), won't

>commercial DVDs exhibit the same problem on an HDTV?

>

>2) If DV (and DVD encoded DV) is seemingly a "mismatch" to HDTV, when will

>HD camcorders be widely available (so our home DV movies will look good on

>an HDTV)? Or are HD camcorders available now? (I have never seen one).

As usual, read John Dyson's posts on this, but my experience

(brief!) was that on an excellent HDTV system, *commercial*

DVDs looked good, and much better than the theoretically

sharper and less-compressed D25 original material. This

last is what I found disturbing...;-) As with commercial VHS

tapes (which look good on SDTV displays) vs. our "home-brew"

VHS copies of even DV, the commercial tapes look better, as

will commercial DVDs compared with ours...