BetterView SD2HD: True HD! (Please watch in 1080p)

[dprecel]

ApeIncognito is 100% correct. The upscaled output looks nice but in no means is it "True HD." It can be close, maybe even indistinguishable (to the human eye, that is), but never the same as footage originally shot in HD. This is false advertisement at best.

[BetterViewISR]

Dprecel,

The ONLY applicable and practical method to determine whether a stream is "True HD" or not, is by User Experiense.

This is easy to understand as every simple "Blow-Up" is fully compatible with HD technical specification, but still presents poor quality that is easily identified as not being HD. This is exactly where we bring our added value and qualitative edge! Once you can't identify our converted HD as not being a genuine HD - we honestly fully deserve the title: "True HD".

[BetterViewISR]

Dear Apelncognito,

Unlike any "Blow Up" or "Up Conversion" of SD video streams, our Super-Resolution solution has a physical potential to reconstract True HD resolution.

The better the input stream (i.e the closer it is to high-quality SD material) - the more the output resembles original HD content. In fact, when the SD is of good quality, the output is of such high quality, it cannot be identified (and hasn't been in several tests we made) as not being genuine HD.

[BetterViewISR]

Wayoutforce,

In addition, audience satisfactory can be determined by one important test: would people be willing to pay a premium price to watch such quality? Our claim is that no one would ever pay an extra dollar for watching a "blown-up" material, even if it is called "HD"...

[BetterViewISR]

Dear Wayoutforce,

It is not enough to choose 1080p mode on the player. You should also watch it on an HD screen and with "Full Screen" mode, to enjoy the maximum quality this video provides.

Blu-Ray Indeed provides a "blown-up" video, but the outcome quality is not even close to the Super-Resolution quality we provide with our solution. BTW - any HD screen automatically up-convert SD streams to "blown-up" HD so this is not unique to the Blu-Ray technology.

[ApeIncognito]

Good use of digital sharpening and upscaling, but calling it "True HD" is bogus. If you shoot something in 16mm and blow it up for 35mm projection, that doesn't make it "True 35mm". If the source is only in SD, how can you call it "True HD" ? I like the idea of the service, just not the misleading marketing expression.

[wayoutforce]

I don't think this is that great. Firstly, I can't see a substantial difference when watching this video in 1080p, and since all of us editors have been scaling up SD for our HD projects for so long, we've all got our way of doing it and there's really no need for this. Also, any blu-ray player playing an SD dvd, automatically scales up a DVD to HD and many people are very pleased with that result.

[Artsamust]

Honest question...Why now?

[BetterViewISR]

@Artsamust Not sure what you mean... there is plenty of very interesting content of SD quality or less, not captured on film, and with no other way to bring it to HD quality... but the process we offer.