Flaw in Ramer's "What Have We Learned So Far?" Logic

[Ruined]

Originally Posted by Sehnzeleid

Buena Vista's VC-1 encode of Deja Vu is great

Yep, even Bill Hunt's site said in its review Deja Vu was the "best the BD format had to offer thus far" in video quality.

[jriseden]

I never said vc-1 was bad, just that it had the same look on all the releases I have seen it on. I think the thing about the video deblocking filter that Videoworx brought up makes alot of sense.

I tend to like the avc look a bit better because I like different films to look as different as possible from one another, but there is certainly NOTHING wrong in my opinion with vc-1, it certainly serves up a nice presentation. Only thing that bugs/worries me is about vc-1 always moving towards more compression.

[Sehnzeleid]

Originally Posted by jriseden

I never said vc-1 was bad, just that it had the same look on all the releases I have seen it on.

I don't get how you guys can "see" a codec. I've seen VC-1, AVC, and MPEG-2 all deliver spectacular to absolutely shit results. The source has much more of a bearing on the end quality, especially between VC-1 and AVC. If the source is shitty, no codec in the world can really correct that, unless it knows voodoo.