General Blu-ray News and Discussion - Part 6
04-02-08, 03:07 PM
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04-02-08, 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Adam Tyner
just curious.
04-02-08, 10:06 PM
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Originally Posted by kefrank
was it intentional to include the discussion of the Batman (1966) cover in that split-off thread? that is a confirmed release.
04-03-08, 01:31 AM
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Originally Posted by GizmoDVD
Ok, I can now confirm the pop (actually about 2 or 3) between the 8:30 - 8:33....right before we see Bruce's son. It appears only to be coming from the back RIGHT speaker. Its very, very annoying 
This is through PCM. Another " center speaker @ 1:28:21" according to another AVS...
Now for DD+..... Not there. So it looks like only the PCM track has the popping sounds.
This is through PCM. Another " center speaker @ 1:28:21" according to another AVS...Now for DD+..... Not there. So it looks like only the PCM track has the popping sounds.
04-03-08, 07:57 AM
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Yeah, I can confirm this as well. Also, the transfer looks really poor. Was the movie this soft in the theaters?
04-03-08, 08:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Suprmallet
Was the movie this soft in the theaters?
04-03-08, 09:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Suprmallet
Yeah, I can confirm this as well. Also, the transfer looks really poor. Was the movie this soft in the theaters?
04-03-08, 09:58 AM
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Posted on blu-ray.com about the 2.0 profile. Seems craptastic and useless to me.
Initial Impressions: BD-Live on Walk Hard
Posted April 2, 2008 05:46 PM by Josh
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment was kind enough to send us a screener copy of the upcoming Blu-ray release of 'Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story', due to hit store shelves on April 8th, day-and-date with the DVD release. After updating my PlayStation 3 to be BD-Live (Profile v2.0) compatible, I threw in the disc to check out how the idea of BD-Live has translated to an actual experience.
After the disc loaded, I was taken to the main menu. From there, I selected "Special Features" and then "BD-Live". The first time you access the BD-Live screen, it will take a minute or so to load, but every time after that is only seconds.
The BD-Live menu is exactly as what was seen on this site only a few days ago. Immediately, I went to download one of the Blu-ray exclusive clips of Derek Stone as a "Coxologist". Clicking on "Download Now", I was again presented with a download bar, and I waited patiently for the clip to load. After what must have been a five minute wait, I was presented with a two minute clip in standard definition. Not exactly the speed I am accustom to for such a low quality video clip.
Keep in mind, I have a fairly fast fiber optic Internet connection, so download speeds have never been an issue. A similar clip, which admittedly is streamed instead of downloaded, might take only a few seconds before playing on YouTube, which begs the question, why make a viewer download a clip if streaming would be considerably faster? So, that's exactly what I did. Opening up the Internet Browser on my PS3, I googled "Dewey Cox" and watched the nearly four minute trailer on YouTube only seconds after loading the page.
The answer is that the files you download remain on your machine even after it it turned off. So, for those viewers who don't have a permanent Internet connection to your PS3 (or will not have a permanent Internet connection to your future BD-Live Blu-ray player), this means you can download the extra content and view it at a later date even if you are no longer connected to the Internet. It must have been a difficult decision for Sony, on whether to stream the clips or download them, but being that they decided on downloading, one would have hoped that they would have used faster servers to distribute the content.
Like any Blu-ray fan, standard definition just doesn't cut it for me anymore, so I went to download a high definition trailer of the upcoming 'Men in Black' Blu-ray disc release (Yes, I know when it is coming. No, I can't legally tell you when yet.). This time, it took about 20 minutes to download a 2.5 minute clip averaging about 8Mbps and having a 2-channel Dolby Digital soundtrack. Not exactly Blu-ray quality, but HD none-the-less.
You can definitely see the potential BD-Live features have, but as of right now, they are not quick enough for the average viewer to wait around for. If you plan on picking up this release next week, and have a PS3, definitely check it out, just make sure you have a few minutes to spare.
Posted April 2, 2008 05:46 PM by Josh
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment was kind enough to send us a screener copy of the upcoming Blu-ray release of 'Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story', due to hit store shelves on April 8th, day-and-date with the DVD release. After updating my PlayStation 3 to be BD-Live (Profile v2.0) compatible, I threw in the disc to check out how the idea of BD-Live has translated to an actual experience.
After the disc loaded, I was taken to the main menu. From there, I selected "Special Features" and then "BD-Live". The first time you access the BD-Live screen, it will take a minute or so to load, but every time after that is only seconds.
The BD-Live menu is exactly as what was seen on this site only a few days ago. Immediately, I went to download one of the Blu-ray exclusive clips of Derek Stone as a "Coxologist". Clicking on "Download Now", I was again presented with a download bar, and I waited patiently for the clip to load. After what must have been a five minute wait, I was presented with a two minute clip in standard definition. Not exactly the speed I am accustom to for such a low quality video clip.
Keep in mind, I have a fairly fast fiber optic Internet connection, so download speeds have never been an issue. A similar clip, which admittedly is streamed instead of downloaded, might take only a few seconds before playing on YouTube, which begs the question, why make a viewer download a clip if streaming would be considerably faster? So, that's exactly what I did. Opening up the Internet Browser on my PS3, I googled "Dewey Cox" and watched the nearly four minute trailer on YouTube only seconds after loading the page.
The answer is that the files you download remain on your machine even after it it turned off. So, for those viewers who don't have a permanent Internet connection to your PS3 (or will not have a permanent Internet connection to your future BD-Live Blu-ray player), this means you can download the extra content and view it at a later date even if you are no longer connected to the Internet. It must have been a difficult decision for Sony, on whether to stream the clips or download them, but being that they decided on downloading, one would have hoped that they would have used faster servers to distribute the content.
Like any Blu-ray fan, standard definition just doesn't cut it for me anymore, so I went to download a high definition trailer of the upcoming 'Men in Black' Blu-ray disc release (Yes, I know when it is coming. No, I can't legally tell you when yet.). This time, it took about 20 minutes to download a 2.5 minute clip averaging about 8Mbps and having a 2-channel Dolby Digital soundtrack. Not exactly Blu-ray quality, but HD none-the-less.
You can definitely see the potential BD-Live features have, but as of right now, they are not quick enough for the average viewer to wait around for. If you plan on picking up this release next week, and have a PS3, definitely check it out, just make sure you have a few minutes to spare.
04-03-08, 12:05 PM
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Yeah, looks a little painful.
(OT alert)......and probably another reason why downloading HD movies isn't going to be practical for quite a while. So there should be plenty of time for BR to catch on.
(OT alert)......and probably another reason why downloading HD movies isn't going to be practical for quite a while. So there should be plenty of time for BR to catch on.
04-03-08, 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by ianholm
Posted on blu-ray.com about the 2.0 profile. Seems craptastic and useless to me.
04-03-08, 05:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Bob330i
Yeah, looks a little painful.
(OT alert)......and probably another reason why downloading HD movies isn't going to be practical for quite a while. So there should be plenty of time for BR to catch on.
(OT alert)......and probably another reason why downloading HD movies isn't going to be practical for quite a while. So there should be plenty of time for BR to catch on.
And you're right. I can't watch HD movies on demand right now. Oops. I made a mistake. I was typing while watching Cars on Starz HD. Looks wonderful, and started faster than it would take for me to load a disc.
Brush it off all you like, but BD needs to move its ass if it wants to get ahead of VOD. And by move its ass, I mean lower prices NOW. They have a very short window to get adoption rates up if they want to be more than a pure enthusiast format (which, again, is not necessarily a bad thing).
04-03-08, 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by bunkaroo
Can we please not derail this thread with VOD again?
Didn't VOD get split off to a separate thread a while back?
Didn't VOD get split off to a separate thread a while back?
04-03-08, 06:08 PM
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Originally Posted by darkside
Seems identical to HD DVD which was just as craptastic and useless.
04-03-08, 07:15 PM
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Originally Posted by candyrocket786
Which is why BD should just focus on giving us regular Extras in HD and forget all this BD live bullshit.
04-03-08, 08:15 PM
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Originally Posted by candyrocket786
Which is why BD should just focus on giving us regular Extras in HD and forget all this BD live bullshit.
04-03-08, 08:51 PM
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Originally Posted by kefrank
i respectfully disagree. i think they should focus on giving us the best possible extras including innovative BD-Live features, unlike those on Walk Hard. just because the initial offering is lame, doesn't mean there's not potential for very cool things with BD-Live down the road.
04-03-08, 10:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Qui Gon Jim
My apologies if this discussion is considered off-topic. I think the futures of BD and VOD etc are interweaved.
Here's the thread Adam split off from the 5th discussion thread:
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=523784
04-03-08, 11:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Qui Gon Jim
My apologies if this discussion is considered off-topic. I think the futures of BD and VOD etc are interweaved.
04-04-08, 09:09 AM
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Lionsgate Entertainment will benefit greatly from Blu-ray's victory in the DVD format war, so shareholders will naturally be rewarded.
SMH Capital analyst David Miller said this week that Lionsgate clears $15 per Blu-ray unit in clear margin for library titles and a whopping $21 for new titles like "War."
And, the kicker is, he estimates Lionsgate sold an additional 1.3 million units of Blu-ray library product relative to his projections just a few weeks ago as the demise of HD DVD has sparked sales for Blu-ray.
As a result, Miller boosted his fiscal fourth-quarter revenue projection from $400.1 million to $419.1 million and his earnings-per-share estimate from 44 cents to 46 cents.
Besides "War," Miller says that Lionsgate has seen improved Blu-ray sales of "Total Recall, "Terminator," the "Saw" series and the "Rambo" box set.
As per usual, Miller noted in his most recent note that, with 5,600 titles, Lionsgate has the "unappreciated distinction of having the largest film library" compared with all major studios.
Lionsgate Entertainment will benefit greatly from Blu-ray's victory in the DVD format war, so shareholders will naturally be rewarded.
SMH Capital analyst David Miller said this week that Lionsgate clears $15 per Blu-ray unit in clear margin for library titles and a whopping $21 for new titles like "War."
And, the kicker is, he estimates Lionsgate sold an additional 1.3 million units of Blu-ray library product relative to his projections just a few weeks ago as the demise of HD DVD has sparked sales for Blu-ray.
As a result, Miller boosted his fiscal fourth-quarter revenue projection from $400.1 million to $419.1 million and his earnings-per-share estimate from 44 cents to 46 cents.
Besides "War," Miller says that Lionsgate has seen improved Blu-ray sales of "Total Recall, "Terminator," the "Saw" series and the "Rambo" box set.
As per usual, Miller noted in his most recent note that, with 5,600 titles, Lionsgate has the "unappreciated distinction of having the largest film library" compared with all major studios.
04-04-08, 09:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Mr. Cinema
Hollywood Reporter
Lionsgate Entertainment will benefit greatly from Blu-ray's victory in the DVD format war, so shareholders will naturally be rewarded.
SMH Capital analyst David Miller said this week that Lionsgate clears $15 per Blu-ray unit in clear margin for library titles and a whopping $21 for new titles like "War."
And, the kicker is, he estimates Lionsgate sold an additional 1.3 million units of Blu-ray library product relative to his projections just a few weeks ago as the demise of HD DVD has sparked sales for Blu-ray.
As a result, Miller boosted his fiscal fourth-quarter revenue projection from $400.1 million to $419.1 million and his earnings-per-share estimate from 44 cents to 46 cents.
Besides "War," Miller says that Lionsgate has seen improved Blu-ray sales of "Total Recall, "Terminator," the "Saw" series and the "Rambo" box set.
As per usual, Miller noted in his most recent note that, with 5,600 titles, Lionsgate has the "unappreciated distinction of having the largest film library" compared with all major studios.
Lionsgate Entertainment will benefit greatly from Blu-ray's victory in the DVD format war, so shareholders will naturally be rewarded.
SMH Capital analyst David Miller said this week that Lionsgate clears $15 per Blu-ray unit in clear margin for library titles and a whopping $21 for new titles like "War."
And, the kicker is, he estimates Lionsgate sold an additional 1.3 million units of Blu-ray library product relative to his projections just a few weeks ago as the demise of HD DVD has sparked sales for Blu-ray.
As a result, Miller boosted his fiscal fourth-quarter revenue projection from $400.1 million to $419.1 million and his earnings-per-share estimate from 44 cents to 46 cents.
Besides "War," Miller says that Lionsgate has seen improved Blu-ray sales of "Total Recall, "Terminator," the "Saw" series and the "Rambo" box set.
As per usual, Miller noted in his most recent note that, with 5,600 titles, Lionsgate has the "unappreciated distinction of having the largest film library" compared with all major studios.
. . . and this is just the beginning. They'll be raking it in hand over fist once they start double-dipping!
04-04-08, 09:38 AM
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. . . and this is just the beginning. They'll be raking it in hand over fist once they start double-dipping!
04-04-08, 09:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Mr. Cinema
I'm not a big fan of double dipping, but I would gladly welcome them on some of LionsGate's early releases. Terminator 2 and Crash specifically. Both are featureless and only have standard DTS audio. T2 was one of the titles whose price dropped to $19.99, so a double dip on that won't be surprising. They may wait and release it to tie in with the new film, which I believe will arrive in '09.
I'm with you. In fact I've pretty much resolved not to upgrade the vast majority of my DVD collection. A new special edition of T2 would be an exception for me, however, as I'm still limited to the old "Ultimate Edition" or whatever it was called. That's one with enough replay value to warrant an upgrade, though.
Pretty impressive how much they're pulling down per disc, though. Especially in light of all the BOGO sales we've seen in the past.