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High Def Movie capable people
- Thread starter dk
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They do rent out Blue rays at mine. My blockbuster is small and already has 5. Casino royale, Flightplan and 3 others but they said they would get more in very soon and when i went in on monday they said they were the same price as normal dvd's but blockbuster prices are changing on friday (the one just gone) so it may be different.
Havent been in since but will go in later and have a look.
I had the normal ice age 2 rented on dvd and it looked amazing on TV so i expect the HD one would be even better. But all cartoon kinda films look amazing. Its the real films that you will see the biggest improvement on and they should be the ones you show your tv off with. Or discovery channel in HD on skyHD
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On thursday watched 'the covenant' on blu-ray on a £10k projector with a dedicated blu ray player... couldn't even tell the differnece to dvd, until we then watched casino royal on the same dedicated player only on dvd and then you could really draw the differences, especially on the 80" screen. funny how you get used to stuff so easy. it's annoying because i think after the inital wow, you just will get used to it if you know what i mean. still was v impressive initally though.
tbh cartoons look good on standard def, i wouldn't make a special effort to buy that sort of thing initally, think i'd stick with live action where you can get a better feel of the quality difference especially for £25 a pop.
tbh cartoons look good on standard def, i wouldn't make a special effort to buy that sort of thing initally, think i'd stick with live action where you can get a better feel of the quality difference especially for £25 a pop.
yes it was, got it from axelmusic, was instock and cheap and i like using them as they are very good.I downloaded the Ice Age 2 trailer on the PS3 last night and it really is stunning looking
Is Happy Feet a US import?
if you use hmv though, they are expensive for everything except the stuff they have in the sale, they regularly sell dvd's at rrp.
For the blu-ray discs i have bought I have paid between £7 and £17
Is that out in HD format yet?True, but then films like the matrix also do HD justice
I've been putting off buying the boxset in HMV for ages on the basis that I might one day have an HD telly so it would make sense to buy an HD version straight off.
Though, bearing in mind I still don't own a CD player of my own in the house, that might be a while yet... LOL
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Matrix HD-DVD is coming (US anyway but region free so no matter) in several weeks
http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/releasedates.html
http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/releasedates.html
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rich[182]
Matrix HD-DVD is coming (US anyway but region free so no matter) in several weeks
http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/releasedates.html
Warners recently announced this would also be released on Blu-Ray within 6 months
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2007/03/22/hidef_matrix_spring/
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Surely the only true HD movie though is that shot on a 100% digital source such as Starwars Eps 2 & 3, I'm sure none of the Matrix were so isn't there some form of processing required to in lamens terms 'convert to 1080p'
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000OONTFU/?tag=cliospnet01-21
Awesome.
Now I just need an HD player and an HD telly... lol
Awesome.
Now I just need an HD player and an HD telly... lol
I had wondered this!rich[182];2640220 said:
nope not at all film is far better than a hd camera as a source
it needs transcoding basically scanning but thats it
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rich[182]
Surely though , whether film is better than HD from a source point of view is another issue, in terms of a given movie being true HD then the source would have to be shot at 1080p or else your simplistically getting a simulated HD through processing/upscaling etc, Ep3 to DVD is a like for like transfer, many of the DVD sites & mags all say that its the visual reference for picture transfer to DVD for that very reason
It's like old b&w films having their original soundtrack remastered to Dolby surround, it's not true dolby surround is it ?
It's like old b&w films having their original soundtrack remastered to Dolby surround, it's not true dolby surround is it ?
because film it so 'high res' though to say, its higher quality than 1080p anyway so is going to be perfect when transferred to disc but it also depends on the type of film shot at and also the way the director wanted to shoot the film. take miami vice for instance, its very grainy, even on hd-dvd but thats how the director Mann wanted it to look, so people may complain the picture isn't great but its the way it ws supposed to look.rich[182];2640618 said:
using film is also a reason why some older films still look stunning in HD as it has the high quality to work from.
haw-he-haw, une-sept-deux
It must take them absolutely ages to render scenes from Happy Feet at 1920x1080. All that hair,fluff and snow to compute etc. On an animation at work im rendering at 800x 600 and that takes 1.5 minutes per frame. If I change it to HD that would more than double. I guess having rooms full of processors would help :dapprove:
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