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DVD's posing as Blurays

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barryb

This really annoys me, because I would not have puchased the disc if I knew it was going to have DVD resolution. I piked up a few blurays from Amazon, including Caddyshack and Total Recall (both were cheap, so I added them on). These two both had DVD resolution. Mad Men Season 4 has phenomenal PQ, on the other hand.

There should be some kind of labeling for this.

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Analogous to digital transfers of bad recordings - Jazz Inmate 10:00:14 05/06/11 (0)
You have to consider source material and remaster quality in digital music releases--of course the same applies in HD transfer of film.

Comparing the latest Mad Men blu-ray to transfers of old movies is apples and oranges.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
They're still 1080/24p xfers, not standard def - eppis1 08:13:18 05/03/11 (0)
They may look bad, and there are lots of reasons for that, but they're Hi Def, nonetheless.
It pays to read reviews first... - Russell 13:29:11 05/02/11 (0)
As cfraser said, just because a title is on Blu-ray doesn't automatically mean it will have fabulous image quality. (Though instances of older films reissued on BD with less-than-stellar PQ are thankfully getting more and more scarce these days.) In any event, it pays to do a little homework first, especially if the title has been out for a while, as in the case of 'Total Recall' (click link below).
Russell
- Total Recall BD review (Open in New Window)
Edits: 05/02/11
RE: DVD's posing as Blurays - cfraser 17:36:18 05/01/11 (0)
There were a lot of crappy BDs put out at the beginning. Lots were titles which as DVDs had been in the bargain bins for the better part of a decade (like Total Recall)...they put no effort into them for BD. OTOH, BD is just a medium and it's perfectly OK to put SD material on them, happens all the time. In fact, lots of people are requesting that large TV DVD sets be re-issued on BD, in DVD res, just to save shelf space. So being on BD has absolutely no relation to resolution or quality, contrary to what "they" would like you to think; all you can do is read the package specs, but they are pretty good at casually not mentioning anything that may be bad, obviously. I even think Total Recall (among many titles) is basically an upscaled DVD.

By "DVDs posing as Blu-rays", I originally thought you meant those DVDs that are *packaged* to look very like BDs, with transparent blue DVD cases or blue-edged slipcovers etc. They are often placed right beside BDs in lots of stores too. There are tons of them out there. From the other side, Disney has this IMO bizarre practice of often offering BDs in DVD packaging too. The best reason I can think of is the DVD cases are stronger so may be better for kids.

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