Blu-ray vs. DVD Comparison [720p HD video]

yeah all you have to do is watch some movies from the 90s and earlier to see how natural film looked. Now it all looks so fake AND THE CGI NOWADAYS...again look at special effects in the 90s. Seriously, the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park were actually believable unlike these blue things in Avatar. Films are looking chinsier and chinsier and people are just eating it up as if they've completely forgotten how good film used to be.

Yup. Film has better detail and color, anyway.
Anyone who disagrees, has not seen a PROPERLY projected film (very rare, these days).

No, Blu-Ray still uses MPEG for video.  The audio however, is uncompressed.

Better audio. While the video uses lossy compression, the audio is uncompressed.

Nothing looks good in "dynamic color mode" - at least not realistic, anyway. These kinds of "enhancement" modes are purely for marketing, and are extremely off from that the video specification actually is. If you want your set to display images that are even close to how they SHOULD look, you have to calibrate it. The goal, is to make it look as close as possible to what the director is actually seeing. No television set comes set up this way, out of the box.

I'd give your comment 10 "thumbs up", if I could. None of this even comes CLOSE to what film can do.

I've seen VHS look better than that, actually ;)

And this is EXACTLY one of the big reasons why I still prefer PROPERLY CALIBRATED HI-DEF CRTs. Unlike LCDs, CRTs have no native resolution.

Only if you use a crappy scaler. Yes, Blu-Ray has higher resolution, but DVD is not as bad as this demo makes it out to be. If it is, then there is something definitely wrong in your home video setup.

Not exactly true. The video on Blu-Ray *IS* indeed compressed. Just not as much as it is on a DVD.