dsheinem wrote:
I think you must have your TV(s) configured to output standard def only or some such. There's no "marketing trickery" going on with visual fidelity between DVD and Blu-Ray, the difference is measurable and significant (in bitrate, resolution, etc.)
If the PS3/Blu-ray player is hooked up via component, then it's being hobbled at least a little bit. At the very least, it's limited to 1080i rather than 1080p, and depending on the disc it may have the
Image Constraint Token part of AACS active, and if so, will be downsampled to 960x540.
Additionally, Blu-ray will only output lossless audio codecs over HDCP compliant HDMI. Otherwise, it's just the same compressed audio quality that DVD does.
Effectively, sure, if someone is running a Blu-ray player on component/optical, then by design, the output may be getting cut down to barely over DVD quality.