Re: What is most important!

Without a doubt it has to be picture. You can have the greatest sound system in the world but if you're looking at a crappy image it's all for nothing. Why do you think people invest more money in big screens than they do their sound systems?

If I could I would have a 100" or larger screen to duplicate the theatre experience. Great picture on a big screen makes all the difference in the world.

Having said that video and audio go hand in hand. Even George Lucas says that the movie experience is 50% video and 50% audio which is why he created the whole THX standard in the first place.

[Post edited by Falcon01 on Mar 26, 2008]

Audio was more important to me when DVD first came on the scene, I was blown away by the 5.1 discrete channels of the Eagles in DTS.

Now that HD DVD/Blu Ray is here I am more concerned with the video, the audio quality with True HD is an improvement to be sure, but it's the 1080P resolution that keeps me buying discs. I have an expensive set up with good quality speakers and receiver, the average Joe out there wouldn't be able to hear much if any difference on their cheap/shitty HTIB . Because of this, I think video is driving the progression to hi def material.

[Post edited by Bosshog7 on Mar 26, 2008]

"I swear I married Him for his SIGHT, not his SOUND!"


[Post edited by xplaytendo on Mar 26, 2008]

For me, it used to be audio. Since the implementation of HD...it's VIDEO.

John said,

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I'd have to say the picture is more important in high definition because, frankly, the Dolby Digital 5.1 audio on regular, standard-definition DVDs is already darned good

I agree 100% John.

vidaudio.

lol

Kuco is hitting the sauce again.

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"All you need is love" -- John Lennon, smart man . . . shot in the back . . . very tragic.

Don't forget Paul, he wrote it too you know? (I know that quote is from ID4) Anyway, as of now I think is more important sound quality. An SD-DVD still looks great using an HD/BD player on a HDTV, but now that I got my 7.1 system fully set up, I can't see myself watching a movie at home using only the TV's speakers. Specially is the movie is action/adventure.

having grown up in a two channel world and spending many, many years striving for the perfect sound stage from either two channel or multi channel formats, I have to say that the aural experience supercedes the visual experience...

let's face it, video is just the eye candy...but the aural experience will actually move you...

when i saw this thread title, i thought that someone was going to ask something substantive. instead, we get another A/V thread... (N)

conan and chris have the best answer.

"TO CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES, SEE THEM DRIVEN BEFORE YOU, AND HEAR THE LAMENTATIONS OF THEIR WOMEN."

[Post edited by posters5 on Mar 26, 2008]