CAV/CLV issue I know has become quite the arguement in the past (on other boards, don't know about this one) and a lot of people say they're the same quality-wise. However, I've seen it with my own eyes when comparing the faces & DC sets on my V8000. Wish I still had the faces set and I could post some screenshot comparisons. I can't tell you what the difference is within these formats, but one holds half what the other does and looks better on my player, so there is something going on there. So much that originally I was going to use my faces discs for my transfer (I had a stand-alone recorder at the time and wanted the least side changes) and picked up a cheap DC box for the extras. For the hell of it I checked out the movie to see if there was any difference. Right away, I thought it looked better (sharper, no smear), so I pulled out the faces set for a compare and sure enough the CAV set was enough of an improvement that I sold the faces discs, sold the DC set and scoured the universe for a late pressing DC box with the flaws fixed (not just the Leia disc replaced). Actually, I do have the CAV Jaws & ET boxsets which both contain long docs in CLV. I could grab a frame from the movie that is also shown in the docs. Will do that when I get home Monday. Like I said, I don't doubt that some players can make the 2 formats look the same quality, but I also know for a fact some players have CAV looking better. Noise is also better on CAV on my player (for most of the disc). CAV disc's s/n ratio keeps getting better until the end of the disc. When comparing the 2 sets, the CLV had the same amount of noise that the very beginning of the CAV sides have. After a few minutes into the CAV discs, the noise was already improved over the CLV (which has the same noise throughout). Let me put it this way, I WISH my player played CLV as good as it does CAV, I don't see a difference because I want to.
CAV/CLV issue I know has become quite the arguement in the past (on other boards, don't know about this one) and a lot of people say they're the same quality-wise. However, I've seen it with my own eyes when comparing the faces & DC sets on my V8000. Wish I still had the faces set and I could post some screenshot comparisons. I can't tell you what the difference is within these formats, but one holds half what the other does and looks better on my player, so there is something going on there. So much that originally I was going to use my faces discs for my transfer (I had a stand-alone recorder at the time and wanted the least side changes) and picked up a cheap DC box for the extras. For the hell of it I checked out the movie to see if there was any difference. Right away, I thought it looked better (sharper, no smear), so I pulled out the faces set for a compare and sure enough the CAV set was enough of an improvement that I sold the faces discs, sold the DC set and scoured the universe for a late pressing DC box with the flaws fixed (not just the Leia disc replaced). Actually, I do have the CAV Jaws & ET boxsets which both contain long docs in CLV. I could grab a frame from the movie that is also shown in the docs. Will do that when I get home Monday. Like I said, I don't doubt that some players can make the 2 formats look the same quality, but I also know for a fact some players have CAV looking better. Noise is also better on CAV on my player (for most of the disc). CAV disc's s/n ratio keeps getting better until the end of the disc. When comparing the 2 sets, the CLV had the same amount of noise that the very beginning of the CAV sides have. After a few minutes into the CAV discs, the noise was already improved over the CLV (which has the same noise throughout). Let me put it this way, I WISH my player played CLV as good as it does CAV, I don't see a difference because I want to.