long live bluray!

may we foolishly continue to silver line the suits at Sony for many years to come

all this talk of grain....shall we open a dedicated thread discussion the PQ/SQ of blurays?

i know the avsforums has one with hundreds of dedicated followers

i was just passing on my opinion to other enthusiasts that i found that particular title being definitely demo worthy material for those who want to show some friends the capabilities of the bluray format and in particular the dynamics of their home theaters...

From a personal point, my obsession with Picture Quality and Sound Quality of blurays simply stems from the fact that i feel that bluray is (still) a format that only a minority of people have bought into. Alot of it has to do with economics. Quite simply, the average person will not pay 70-150RM for an original bluray title given the widely availability of pirated movies we have access to. It makes bluray a still prestigious format of watching movies at home. Showing friends scenes from Planet Earth, Avatar or The Dark Knight, it fills me with great pride when their jaws drop and they comment "wow, your home theater is awesome!". Yes, admittedly its a show off thing and i am not ashamed to admit it because i am sure that most people here can be guilty of this pleasure as well

Like so many of us here, I have invested alot of my hard earned moolah on equipment to realise "a 24 frame 1080p picture" and "a lossless audio" on a "90+ screen" at "bitrates of 25mb per sec" etc

I do admit that on many occasion i would appreciate PQ and AQ even over the actual fact that the movie was generally rubbish (Revenge of The Fallen anyone?) and this has become criteria to ALOT of my bluray purchases. Is this just being silly? perhaps.

i could write about references to particular scenes of a movie to talk about tonal balance, skin tones, palette drop outs, over saturation, pixilazation etc but then i don't think the general audience of this thread would show much interest.

This post has been edited by yonggoh: Dec 17 2010, 01:59 PM

My favourite war movies are Apocalypse Now, The Thin Red Line, Platoon and The Deer Hunter(can we consider that a ware movie?), Bridge on the River Kwai.... Full Metal Jacket is also a classic

Having said that I have three war movies on BD, namely The Thin Red Line, Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down. The accolades for ryan and red line have been discussed at great lengths among Home theater fans all over the net... getting near perfect scores in all departments from many reviewers alike...

War is certainly fun... only when its not real and on big screen of course

dariofoo i have not seen FMJ on BD yet but i can whole heartedly recommend ryan and redline on bluray

Foo Fighters in Wembley is excellent

Especially enjoyed Everlong

everlong was all about the teaser...

my highlight of the disc was prob rock n roll with members from led zepellin... epic

anyone any comment of the actual quality of the recording? i found the vocal portions a bit too dominant in the mix

House of Flying Daggers...especially this scene if you have a tight surround speaker set up... good to test channel separation and a wide frequency range

oops!

this scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NVpK8Vh_h8

This post has been edited by yonggoh: Dec 21 2010, 12:02 PM

kayroll: toy story 3 nais...

number 1 best looking bluray for sure!

Ps3 also can right?
correct me if im wrong...