{"id":990,"date":"2007-07-15T16:32:40","date_gmt":"2007-07-15T20:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/07\/15\/ps3-blu-ray-and-dvd-upscaling-goodness\/"},"modified":"2007-07-15T16:32:40","modified_gmt":"2007-07-15T20:32:40","slug":"ps3-blu-ray-and-dvd-upscaling-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/07\/15\/ps3-blu-ray-and-dvd-upscaling-goodness\/","title":{"rendered":"PS3 Blu-ray and DVD upscaling goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I picked up Planet Earth (the BBC narration version) from Amazon for $66.95, which is price as far as my normal DVD purchases go, but well worth the money.\u00a0 I have seen enough of the episodes on Discovery HD to know what to expect, but oh my goodness, this set looks incredible.\u00a0 I am not sure what makes the difference \u2013 the Sony BRAVIA KDL-40V2500, the PS3, the HDMI combination for 1080p, or Blu-ray.\u00a0 If you want a way to show off a high-def set, this is the way to do it up right.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, my boys and I watched the original Star Wars Trilogy; I hate that I have to qualify it with the \u201coriginal\u201d moniker.\u00a0 While these are the newer DVD versions with all the pretty blinky lights, beautiful explosions, and all the other eye candy, I have to report that Star Wars has never looked better!\u00a0 The PS3 upscaling is incredible.\u00a0 While I am not any sort of HD expert, I do know that this is the best looking Star Wars that I have even seen.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I picked up Planet Earth (the BBC narration version) from Amazon for $66.95, which is price as far as my normal DVD purchases go, but well worth the money.\u00a0 I have seen enough of the episodes on Discovery HD to know what to expect, but oh my goodness, this set looks &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/07\/15\/ps3-blu-ray-and-dvd-upscaling-goodness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PS3 Blu-ray and DVD upscaling goodness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}