Our High Defnition Wedding Videos

AJS and Associates wedding video can produce full High Definition (HD) Blu-ray DVD of your special wedding day. Christmas 2006 saw the largest uptake of LCD televisions that were HDTV compatible. The next stage is the High Definition DVD player. Originally set at £1000, people have predicted that they will not be largely purchased by the public until 2008, possibly 2 years after people have purchased their HDTV.

Just one thing to note a HDTV without a HD source is just a normal television with a standard source. DVDs are strictly standard definition, so again a DVD playing on a HDTV is still a standard television source and picture. SKY HD is a HD source and you can truely tell the difference. There are exceptions to the rule. Due to the late emergence of HD DVD and Blu-ray players companies such as sony have produced DVD players that can maginfy the resolution of a standard television picture such that it is the same resolution as a HD picture. When a DVD is encoded at it's highest rate of quality and played through a player the image quality and resolution is very compareable to SKY HD. The important items to note on the DVD is that it should have an upscaler and should connect via an HDMI cable to the HDTV. We have tested our Standard DVD on various 47" LCD Televisions connected in this way and the image quality is supherb, definitely worth the price tag of £75 for a new DVD player.

We own a wide range of HDTV cameras from Sony's HDV range. They are professional broadcast quality cameras that are portable and are now well used throughout the television industry. Some wedding companies say that they film on HDTV cameras but only produce a standard DVD and people assume they are watching a High Defintion Picture. A standard DVD can hold upto 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes of top quality standard definition video. If a High definition picture is four times the size of the standard picture then it also takes up 4 times the space on the DVD, or about 20 minutes.

With the recent launch of the playstation 3, a Blu-ray player is within reach for most people. Whilst the PS3 is still around £400, it is remarkably cheaper than the standalone blu-ray that was £1000. We can produce a High Definition Blu-ray DVD of your wedding video should you wish to have them. Because the media costs considerably more than normal DVD's and other costs such as the computer hardware and video rendering cards we have to charge people an additional £200 for this premium service. You will need to indicate to us that you wish to take advantage of this service before hand so we film your wedding day on High definition cameras and everything is edited in the High definition editing suites.

We have to keep and stay upto date with technology because people book us upto 2 years in advance, so whilst the players are expensive now by the time the couple get married, a blu-ray player might be on their wedding list at a reasonable price of £50 - 75. The main point to consider is that comparing High Definition to standard definition is like comparing DVD to video. Most people who have a video of their wedding often wish that DVD was around such that they could have the picture improvements that comes with the technology advancements.