Watchmen. Great adaptation IMHO. Humanising Heroes and Super Heroes. The movie can get a bit slow for some but the ending totally rocked.
Anyone bought Celine Dion Live in Las Vegas? I hear it's really good...
Celine Dion is one of the best concerts on BD. The PQ is 4-stars and AQ is almost perfect 5-stars. The Dolby TrueHD was sampled at 24-bit/96kHz with the bitrate averages at 10 Mbps.
Zerorulez, another thing to note. All Warner titles straight goes to the movie, skipping the menu. And their default audio is always Dolby Digital. Try use the pop-up menu and change the audio.
Well PS3 via HDMI to AVR.. setting set to LPCM for BD at PS3... i just press the select button on the controller... n DD 5.1 640 kbps
Added on August 28, 2009, 3:28 pmok thanks bro AIman.. just select pop menu.. n settle... thanks
Glad it's solved. All Warner titles always default to Dolby Digital, that's one thing I don't like from them. Really don't understand, if they worry about customers equipment supporting the HD codecs, Dolby TrueHD also has a core Dolby Digital track that will automatically be used. But I do appreciate their way to go straight to the movie without going through all the trailers and advertisements.
been watching, DF track no 24, recorded video of Celine Dion and David Foster singing " Because You Loved Me" Notice ~ she's in white with the same attire except for her pants (leg's part) zipped down to her sneakers...
if not mistaken, this excerpt was taken from Celine's ~ A New Days Concert notice now, the zipper to sneakers is loose.
i've got the DVD version, and i believe the BD version also same. could it be DF appearance was not on the day.... the concert was recorded
Added on September 1, 2009, 1:27 amor is there's another version of Celine's ~ A New Day ??
thanks
The Celine Dion concert was not a one time event. She had the concert 5 nights a week in Las Vegas that ran for 5 years. The one on the BD is one of the concerts and/or combination of the performances.
So the one with David Foster was from one of the other nights, that's why you don't see it on Celine's BD.
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I complained about the Gladiator price, last night I received this email:
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what's the differences between these 2 vesrion? which version is better?
If you're OK with the new design, then get the new version. It does what the old PS3 can't and never will, bitsream HD audio. And it's uses less power, and quieter fan.
Small issue include some noise during disc insert/eject, and a few seconds slower to load the movie from the BD. Really irrelevant as any other player within the same price range not that fast anyway, may even be slower.
you get me wrong, for the new slim PS3, there are few version available in the market such as US version, M'sia version....etc, so what are the differences and which one is better?
whats the difference in BD from US and UK base on same title except for the PG rating and hard box
thanks
Depends on the title itself. Example, The Shawshank Redemption US is a digibook while the UK version uses normal BD casing. Monster's Inc has Digital Copy in US while in UK none.
And sometimes because of different distributor, they may use a different transfer altogether which results in different PQ itself, and the audio might also use different codecs.
Added on September 3, 2009, 10:36 am
QUOTE(kkChan @ Sep 3 2009, 10:31 AM)
Slim ps3 got how many GB ones??
120GB.
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Review of Galdiator by Blu-ray.com is online. Excerpt about PQ:
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Video: 4/5 stars
Vanishing arrows! Fireballs that phase in-and-out of the space-time continuum! No, it's not The Prestige or the latest Star Trek; it's the pre-release buzz surrounding Paramount's highly-anticipated Gladiator, the first of two films, alongside Braveheart, to be released under the brand-bew "Sapphire Series" label. After weeks of speculation, back-and-forth bickering, and plenty of rounds of "the blame game," the disc is finally on store shelves and ready for all the world to scrutinize. Far from the worst transfer in this history of home video (beaten out for that honor only by that worn-down VHS copy of Mitchell stashed in the garage. Just kidding.) but certainly lacking in several key areas, Gladiator fails to capture the same film-like, nearly-pristine presentation that accompanies Braveheart. As to the first point in this paragraph, the disappearing act of 1900-year-old weapons: it's nearly impossible to notice in real-time on the 1080p presentation, viewing on a 65" screen. There are 100 other things going on in-frame during these scenes, each vying for viewers' attention, and it's not like Russell Crow uses the later battle scenes in Gladiator as an extended audition for the latest adaptation of The Invisible Man.
On to what's actually visible on the disc. Gladiator does indeed feature some scrubbing and edge enhancement. Fine detail can look acceptably good throughout despite the problems, but it never looks completely natural or film-like. Maximus' armor and fur collar as seen during the opening battle scene (home of the wayward arrows and missing fireballs) look decent enough, but the entire scene isn't helped by the fact that it's meant to look virtually lifeless. It takes place on the edge of a dank, dreary, cold, and dead forest with overcast gray skies that suck the life and color out of the entire sequence. It's not something that's going to positively sparkle even under ideal 1080p conditions, but there is a palpable absence of grain that further removes any sense of life from the action. The scrubbing renders these and most other backgrounds throughout the film sterile, and while faces retain a decent level of detail, there are patches where foreheads and cheeks look like they've been airbrushed and are certainly not up to the same standards as the most finely-detailed Blu-ray discs, for example The Interntaional or Paramount's own Iron Man and Transformers.
Perhaps the most distracting element of the transfer comes in the form of extremely heavy edge enhancement. One look at most any scene will reveal heavy outlines around characters and objects. It's more noticeable in some places than in others, but it lends to the transfer an artificial appearance that's wholly distracting. A good place to get an idea of how bad it can look may be found in chapter eight during the scene that sees Maximus escape his execution in the forest, and there are plenty of moments throughout, particularly in longer-distance shots, that drive the point home. Flesh tones also come off as featuring a somewhat red appearance throughout, and there's some heavy banding in the background during the film's text-based introduction. As is the case with every transfer on the market, different viewers with different eyes and different equipment with different sensitivities and different expectations will inevitably see the same transfer in a radically different light than another, and it's up to each individual viewer to judge the quality of a disc within their own set of parameters.
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most important can our BD's play that regions disc thanks, cos i find their prices more attractive. thansk again
I thought you already know about the region codings already? Of course from UK/EU it's supposed to be Region B, but not all of them are locked. Check here:
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