Verdict: Blu-Ray

Ryan and I stopped into Best Buy before the movie to check out the new Samsung Blu-Ray player advertised in the paper. (And to walk off the chimichangas.) Anyway, we were greeted by a display on a modest 30-inch LCD hooked up via HDMI (digital), and were impressed with it.

BUT!... We were SHOCKED to see that pausing an image listed as 1080p (progressive scan for you non-HD otakus), was HORRIBLY PIXELATED. More interestingly, this pixelation looked like classic interlacing artifacts.

So two possibilities: the demo disc was created by a brain-damaged lab rat, or the player cannot frame buffer a frame to pause. This would seem to indicate that slow-mo would look like liquid crap on a crap-colored plate. (Eew. Grossed myself out there.)

And, I'm done.