What should my 1st Blu-ray in HD experience be?
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Re: What should my 1st Blu-ray in HD experience be?
Are any of your personal top ten favorite films in the list of blu-rays you own? I think it's more meaningful to see something you are very familiar with so you can notice all the things you'd never seen before. I'd seen 2001 probably 50 times over the years, including at IMAX, but watching it on blu-ray made me feel like I was watching a brand new movie. I was literally gasping aloud, and I watched it alone!
thanks for all the suggestions. keep em coming. tv should hopefully be here before weekend. i hope! still in 'shipping soon' stage
i really am torn, but in a fun way...
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Re: What should my 1st Blu-ray in HD experience be?
I'd say The Incredible Hulk for reference PQ and especially AQ. Also, Baraka is breath taking to say the least in terms of PQ.
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I'm going to say 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Seriously blew me away and I had been into blu for well over a year when I saw it.
Seriously blew me away and I had been into blu for well over a year when I saw it.
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if your receiver does 192KHz sound check out Akira - the soundmix is underrated IMO and definately an aural experience.
likewise the anime series Freedom - the sharpness of the image is eye-piercing.
the soundmix on Despicable Me, the bass is assaultive. I watched this on a friend's home theater system and it sounded better than the theatrical version I saw/heard.
likewise the anime series Freedom - the sharpness of the image is eye-piercing.
the soundmix on Despicable Me, the bass is assaultive. I watched this on a friend's home theater system and it sounded better than the theatrical version I saw/heard.
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"Taxi Driver" is supposed to be an amazing upgrade according to every single person that owns it.
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That is an excellent point about animated film as first. I might want too see how awesome live action is first, though I do plan on watching my fav baseball team as my very first HD induction but timing of game might not coincide with final set up so...
Serenity is a possibilty as it is one of my all time favs as well...
Serenity is a possibilty as it is one of my all time favs as well...
As far as Serenity - the audio on Serenity is very aggresive (as it damn well should for an action oriented sci-fi piece) and it looks fantastic.
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Had to scroll down farther than I thought to get to the Dark Knight:
Watch the Scenes that switch to "Full Screen", this is when the IMAX filming kicks in. This is the way every movie should be filmed and then transferred to Blu-Ray. Every time I watch the movie, I have to keep re-watching the scenes over and over again - I am still amazed years later.
-Chase under Gotham City (Joker chasing Harvey Dent)
-Several others...
Pixar is what you want to put in to marvel at perfection.
"Beauty and the Beast" shows off Disney's artwork, the picture is perfect and the colors JUMP off the TV. Everyone that has watched it on my HDTV, have noticed immediately how the VQ is amazing.
Watch the Scenes that switch to "Full Screen", this is when the IMAX filming kicks in. This is the way every movie should be filmed and then transferred to Blu-Ray. Every time I watch the movie, I have to keep re-watching the scenes over and over again - I am still amazed years later.
-Chase under Gotham City (Joker chasing Harvey Dent)
-Several others...
Pixar is what you want to put in to marvel at perfection.
"Beauty and the Beast" shows off Disney's artwork, the picture is perfect and the colors JUMP off the TV. Everyone that has watched it on my HDTV, have noticed immediately how the VQ is amazing.
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Tangled, Tron Legacy, Red Cliff: Parts I & II, Star Trek, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (despite the film being totally braindead), and Casino Royale make for a great A/V experience.
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while I can't say much about the Magnolia edition of The Good, The Bad and the Weird - the Korean edition is jawdropping, the image is so sharp and clean, the film looks like it was shot in 65mm and the 7.1 soundmix is insanely loud and highly creative.
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Watch the intro to TF2 and turn it off after the shanghai sequence. That's all you need otherwise...it gets really stupid fast.
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talk about a missed opportunity of NOT shooting that with IMAX cameras, the rolling down the highway with cars exploding and flying around should have looked massive - but it wasn't, oh well that's the ineptness of Michael Bay for you.
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But, in all fairness, I recall reading somewhere that shooting in IMAX was very last minute and/or an afterthought.
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Not my personal choice but some do feel this way. It's the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" mentality.
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I would say that you shouldn't set the bar too high on your first viewing. Watch something with average picture quality first, so you're used to something a little sub-par and can adjust your expectations according, thus leaving you BLOWN AWAY by the best of the best.
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So that they will connect to any TV. If they didn't include them, retailers would have to deal with customers that "couldn't get them to work." While those people shouldn't be buying the players in the first place, it's better to just include those connections than to have to eat the cost of returns.
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Re: What should my 1st Blu-ray in HD experience be?
So that they will connect to any TV. If they didn't include them, retailers would have to deal with customers that "couldn't get them to work." While those people shouldn't be buying the players in the first place, it's better to just include those connections than to have to eat the cost of returns.