the perfect storm blu-ray?
12-11-07 | 07:07 PM
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the perfect storm blu-ray?
Why is this only available on hd. It's distributed by WB. Reason I ask is I saw an ad for it saying it was coming soon to blu-ray. That was about a year ago.
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12-11-07 | 09:15 PM
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Originally Posted by mike2
Why is this only available on hd. It's distributed by WB. Reason I ask is I saw an ad for it saying it was coming soon to blu-ray. That was about a year ago.
They'll probably get around to a Blu-ray release eventually, although I was personally pretty let down by the quality of the transfer on HD DVD.
12-11-07 | 09:25 PM
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That's a shame. It's just odd that Warner chooses not to release both formats @ the same time. I guess we all need a little patience. Hopefully the blu-ray transfer will be better. I just watched under siege on bluray and it was a horrible transfer. By far the worst I've ever seen.
12-11-07 | 09:59 PM
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Originally Posted by mike2
That's a shame. It's just odd that Warner chooses not to release both formats @ the same time.
It'll almost certainly be the same transfer and even the same exact encode.
12-11-07 | 11:12 PM
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Originally Posted by mike2
That's a shame. It's just odd that Warner chooses not to release both formats @ the same time. I guess we all need a little patience. Hopefully the blu-ray transfer will be better. I just watched under siege on bluray and it was a horrible transfer. By far the worst I've ever seen.
12-11-07 | 11:26 PM
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Originally Posted by GizmoDVD
It can be for different reasons, like IME or PiP functions Blu-ray does not have at the moment. They just got around to releasing The Polar Express and T3 is coming out in January.
12-11-07 | 11:37 PM
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Originally Posted by dsa_shea
Does this particular movie have either of these? I don't think so but I'm not 100% sure.
12-11-07 | 11:46 PM
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As an owner of Perfect Storm on HD DVD, I can confidently say you're not missing much. There are some scenes where the HD shines, but the film takes place mostly at night, and combined with the grain effect, we have a film which looks just about the same as the regular DVD version.
So, you're not missing much.
So, you're not missing much.
12-12-07 | 05:09 AM
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As someone else said, this was an early release - I think before BD hit the shelves. People have complained alot about the less than stunning release so i dare say a new version for both formats will appear or it will remain HD DVD exclusive.
12-12-07 | 10:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Hammer99
The HD DVD features a TrueHD soundtrack, but the transfer is bobbed & not too impressive. Hopefully, this one will be corrected by Warner when it finally comes out on BD.
12-12-07 | 07:19 PM
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There are still a few Warner titles that haven't shown up on Blu-ray yet(aside from the obvious big ones) that came out on HD DVD already. Some don't even have IME or anything that would preclude them from being released on Blu-ray. I think Warner said sales were so low for some titles that it wasn't worth pressing them to Blu-ray yet(but this was like 9 months ago).
