"Noise" source... the camera,the blu-ray player or the TV?

[mark-mvs]

Hi gang, it's been a while. I hope this finds you all well and busy! So a ways back I posted about seeing noise in the video on blu-rays I created. I assumed it had to do with the camera settings and that the light was low. (Which I'm sure was some of it.) Well, just recently when popping a store-bought Blu-ray movie into my PS3 (my only blu-ray player) guess what I saw? Yup, noise! Some pretty noticeable noise in the dark areas of the picture on a store bought blu-ray. Which begs the question, was some of the noise I complained about in my wedding footage NOT in fact in the video but being created by the blu-ray player?...or maybe even by my Vizio 46" LCD tv?

Has anyone heard anything about this or experienced this?

[DavidPartington]

Don't assume that all commercial blu-ray discs are noise free - because they aren't.   I remember being horrified at the noise in some of the opening scenes of James Bond Casino Royale - outside the offices where he goes to make his 'second' kill.   Noise!  Noise!  Noise!

So, may be some is being added by the TV (I have one Samsung TV in particular that is worse than others) or maybe it's in your source footage and not being displayed by the computer / monitor.   Without some samples it's going to be pretty hard for me to tell