BD/HD titles that offer the most impressive SD upgrade?
12-29-07 | 10:50 PM
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The Untouchables. Road Warrior and Blade Runner are up there. The opening scene with De Niro, and the scene with Coster and Connery in the church blew me away. Glad I grabbed this on BD before I lost my chance. You gotta expect a Hollywood blockbuster from last summer to look great, but when you see a movie for the first time in HD after years of shit VHS transfers it's like seeing it for the first time. That's the beauty of BD for me.
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12-29-07 | 11:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul_SD
All of the title listed so far ARE NOT...I repeat NOT an impressive upgrade at all.
People need their eyes checked here.
I've watched every single one of these titles on a brand new 24" 720p LCD from 10' back and NONE of them look all that much better than the DVD.
People need their eyes checked here.
I've watched every single one of these titles on a brand new 24" 720p LCD from 10' back and NONE of them look all that much better than the DVD.
12-30-07 | 12:45 PM
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You can add Brotherhood of the Wolf to this list as one that blows away the SD versions...
It's crisp and bright, the grain is reduced greatly, (obviously) more detail, and the colors are much more balanced in the darker sections. Plus, it's the 'director's cut', even though the box lists the wrong running time and such. Great all around!
And not that it was a film that required much of an upgrade, since it's a comedy, but the HD version of Beerfest, despite the missing funny menu from the SD release, is quite well done. V for Vendetta is quite good as well, but the SD disc was so damn good that the difference is less pronounced, despite the HD being a fantastic disc.
It's crisp and bright, the grain is reduced greatly, (obviously) more detail, and the colors are much more balanced in the darker sections. Plus, it's the 'director's cut', even though the box lists the wrong running time and such. Great all around!
And not that it was a film that required much of an upgrade, since it's a comedy, but the HD version of Beerfest, despite the missing funny menu from the SD release, is quite well done. V for Vendetta is quite good as well, but the SD disc was so damn good that the difference is less pronounced, despite the HD being a fantastic disc.
12-30-07 | 12:55 PM
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Originally Posted by lordzeppelin
You can add Brotherhood of the Wolf to this list as one that blows away the SD versions...
It's crisp and bright, the grain is reduced greatly, (obviously) more detail, and the colors are much more balanced in the darker sections. Plus, it's the 'director's cut', even though the box lists the wrong running time and such. Great all around!
It's crisp and bright, the grain is reduced greatly, (obviously) more detail, and the colors are much more balanced in the darker sections. Plus, it's the 'director's cut', even though the box lists the wrong running time and such. Great all around!
12-30-07 | 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Quake1028
Is that disc DTS audio only?
Really, whoever did the packaging should be fired...it's got more errors on one box than I have ever seen before.
12-30-07 | 07:20 PM
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Originally Posted by abintra
:Least impressive mentioned titles:
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Sting, The
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Sting, The
12-31-07 | 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Phod
Where can you get Brotherhood of the Wolf HD-DVD? Also, is it all-region? (or at least playable on US players)
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=509237
Tony at xploitedcinema.com has them avaliable.
And this title plays on every HD DVD player because there is no region coding on HD players.
12-31-07 | 03:53 PM
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MOst of the HD disks I have seen are not significant improvements over standard DVD.
However Excalibur is a BIG exception. Great use of colors on the HD-DVD version. Looks many times better thanthe weak Standard edition DVD.
However Excalibur is a BIG exception. Great use of colors on the HD-DVD version. Looks many times better thanthe weak Standard edition DVD.
