Originally posted by: MeBeJedi

Sounds like your TV is the problem, not the video transfer.

Yup, mine, and all the other 16:9 displays I've ever owned or used.

Hey, I'm not dissing the set, it's a great transfer. But images zoomed on a 16:9 screen look awful to me. All the 16:9 displays I've ever seen look rubbish on zoom mode, to me at least. I live in the UK, 16:9 has been common here for a long time. I've had 3 different 16:9 TVs over the last 7 years (oh god, that makes me sound really old!). The latest one looks better than the others did on zoom, but still awful by comparison. In Widescreen mode, anamorphic DVDs look fantastic. Crisp and lovely. Maybe it's something to do with PAL enabled equipment (although obviously the DVD player and the TV are operating in NTSC while watching these disks) or maybe it's the fact that the RGB output from my DVD player is so sharp, that it really notices when it's not quite right. America never really embraced RGB as far as I can tell, but don't you guys have that new thing with a whole bunch of wires that looks just as good?

So to me, on my setup (and the 3 other 16:9 setups I've watched these DVDs on), Dr Gonzo's disk just looks better, hands down. On a standard 4:3 screen, I'd say EditDroid is noticably crisper, but not on any 16:9 display I've seen it on.

Bottom line is for me: A DVD which is not anamorphic is not as watchable as one that is. Unless it's a 4:3 presentation of course. It's not a bad disk, in fact a very good one. But certain "deliberate creative decisions" (ie, making it letterboxed instead of anamorphic) have been made which render it not as good as Dr G's to me.

My problem, not EditDroids. Personal taste comes into this as well. Some of my friends don't mind the drop in quality. One guy I know watches all his DVDs on a PS2, with all the attendant sound synch issues and he claims not to notice. 2 or 3 people I know refuse to watch DVDs at his house because the synch drives then insane, but it doesn't seem to bother him one bit.

Diffren' strokes I guess...