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In Reply to: RE: Don't you mean Blue herring... :0) posted by oscar on June 07, 2007 at 10:45:57
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"Children of Men", "Batman Begins", "Serenity" (?). Not exactly slouches in the PQ department and the effects weren't obvious unless you were really looking for them. And this might have been a manifestation of the particular system it was played in. I'll should revisit this again with other HD-DVD sources (this was before I acquired "King Kong" and "Poseidon") on the home front.
Nevertheless, the chances of detecting artifacts increase with increased screen size. What's not obvious on a 40" screen might become brutally obvious on a 100+" screen. [And after seeing what's possible on a SOTA 1080p Front projector, I'm not real satisfied with my 720p FP].
I don't think any of those are on the "bit starved" movie list, even by the most vocal opponents of VC-1. That said, I'm fairly sure, that if you look hard enough, you can find flaws in quite a few movies. Some people even crank up their sharpness just to see them. In some(many) cases, it may be the compressionist, not the codec. I don't have a projector, but I do have a 60" 1080p set, and I saw that there is visible banding on Planet Earth. Its still a nice box set. Hell, over at AVS, most BD titles, even exclusives, are listed as containing some artifacts. Of the few that don't, 2/3 are from Warner-Imagine that!
enjoy,
Jack
I've had my share of disappointments on Blu-ray; E.g. I thought "Night at the Museum" was good, not great and could have been much better but they had to make it fit on a 25G disc. Could the result have been better if they had a 50G constraint to work with ?
I've the impression making low(er) bitrate encodes require a bit more TLC to mask/eliminate video artifacts; if they don't put in the TLC (or they can't stand higher bitrates because of bandwidth/storage considerations), you get results like "Blood Diamond".
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