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This is the first 1.1 er...Enhanced Viewing BD to come out. Its also a Fox disc. Despite that, it plays. :-) I admit I was skeptical. It took quite a while to load, but it played. Its also 18Mbps, that's less than half the rate they used on The Simpsons Movie. Go figure. Some people here *cough*Oscar*cough* would call that bit starved if this was an HD DVD. There is a little bit of artifacting right after the Fox/Spotlight symbol, but the movie itself is fine-no real problems that I noticed-good color, detail etc., no obvious banding (lots of chances for it). I can't comment on the 1.1 features, but considering the subject matter, it doesn't look like they spent alot of time and energy on this. Space type movies can and should look phenomenal in HD. This is good, but not phenomenal. Another average HD disc. Is this the way things are going to be in the future?
I can hardly wait.
Jack
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It looks very good for the most part (and often excellent), but not stunning or phenomenal. I suspect that this might have to do with the original film master, as it is pretty highly stylized to begin with. FWIW, the BD has received high marks for video quality on High-Def Digest and Blu-ray.com. And yes, it does take a while to load, but it's nowhere as long as my record-holding 'Ratatouille' (which has improved with the latest firmware update on my player).
Russell
Just curious how picture-in-picture was utilized in this release. Did you check it out?
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nt
The likelihood of you posting anything interesting or worthwhile is approaching zero.
SF
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nt
My PS3 is now 1.1 compliant and I just can't for the life of me foresee using this feature.
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Call me old-fashioned, but I'm one of those that just wants to watch the movie and (if I like the film), behind-the-scenes and making-of supplemental features. I couldn't care less about PIP and interactive games that seem to be proliferating on the latest BDs these days.
Russell
...and it is...then the plan is to sell you the initial release, then spin it again as "Remastered" or "Superduperbit," or "Limited/Collectors Edition," and sell it to you again :-)
They are more likely to do that for something like Robocop which has less features than the DVD, or Die Hard 4, where the DVd has the unrated extended version but the BD has the theatrical version. Gotta love Fox. I suspect this is different, and I fear a future full of mediocrity. :-(
Jack
you gotta leave a little wiggle room for the Superduperbit version. Only know, you'll have plenty of room to add all sorts of special features, director's cuts, seamless branching, some interactive games, etc.. etc... to add value for your double/triple/quadrupledip.
> > Only know, you'll have plenty of room to add all sorts of special features, director's cuts, seamless branching, some interactive games, etc.. etc.. < <
Finally a use for all that wasted excess capacity! ;-)
It might have been phenomenal if they had doubled the video bitrate..... ;> )
But in this case, I suspect the master tape itself wasn't really that great. And I suspect the transfer to Blu-ray could have been better. But I should see it for myself. One great thing about HD media, the transfers are often so good, you can start nitpicking the original program material.
It's a must-have, but I'm not sure it's a "must-have-now" movie. I should go back to an old practice of waiting several months for the movie to achieve "catalog" status with subsequent MSRP price drop.
thx
> > > It might have been phenomenal if they had doubled the video bitrate < < <
Possibly, but they didn't. What good is higher bitrate, if they don't use it?
This is a brand new movie, so I would have expected the master to be superb. It could have been the transfer, as I said I don't think they put alot of effort into the PQ.
Jack
and of course the movie master tapes. That way, I can A/B the original vs. the HD media version.
Of course, that would requiring knowing the winning lottery numbers before anyone else...
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