Comments on: CrunchDeals: Vudu offers Black Friday deals on HD and HDX titles http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/11/25/crunchdeals-vudu-offers-black-friday-deals-on-hd-and-hdx-titles/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:32:36 -0500 hourly 1 By: Thomas http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/11/25/crunchdeals-vudu-offers-black-friday-deals-on-hd-and-hdx-titles/comment-page-1/#comment-951939 Thomas Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:12:10 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=55498#comment-951939 When will the people that make those side-by-side picture comparisons learn that they're pretty much useless unless they're showing the same thing, not a different portion of a larger scene?? This one isn't the worst I've seen, though the portion in "HDX" is obviously more in focus (it's in the foreground) and complex... But I've honestly seen one of these things that had a nice blue sky and simple landscape rendered in some fancy format, while the other half of the image in the standard format was the edge of a cityscape or something equally difficult for any standard-def source to replicate...so of course it was all fuzzy and lame... When will the people that make those side-by-side picture comparisons learn that they’re pretty much useless unless they’re showing the same thing, not a different portion of a larger scene?? This one isn’t the worst I’ve seen, though the portion in “HDX” is obviously more in focus (it’s in the foreground) and complex…

But I’ve honestly seen one of these things that had a nice blue sky and simple landscape rendered in some fancy format, while the other half of the image in the standard format was the edge of a cityscape or something equally difficult for any standard-def source to replicate…so of course it was all fuzzy and lame…

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