Which state did u ship to? Some states in the US have sales tax.... That is why Amazon tax u.

Shipping to Malaysia using standard shipping does not incur tax, if customs hold, u r responsible to clear whatever taxes are applicable. Sometimes, using Priority shipping, they pre-charge u tax and refund if there is no subsequent taxation applied by Malaysian customs.

SkyFall is a Fox release...Chances are it will be region locked, but who knows.

I actually watched the intro scene for a bit(I believe there was also a scene that had a volcano scene). Pretty good if u ask me. I would say slightly better than Baraka. So, u know its pretty good.

I recently watched Vishwaroopam on Bluray. Exceptional transfer. There are subtitles. I know not many here watch Tamil/Hindi but the PQ on some of these are really good. As are some of the HK transfers.

I am clearing my BD collection. If anyone is just into BDs, good way to get it. Click my siggy.

Yeah I sold them some time ago.

Nice prices for Criterion titles...

Yeah have that and Thuppaki to watch soon. Will post the review of Billa 2 once I get the chance to check it out.

Also the recent Hindi titles that I enjoyed were Barfi!, Cocktail and especially Kahaani.

maskedchan,

Even picture quality is debatable. There are a lot of unknowns. Some of them are:

1. The software used to play the movies behave differently from each other. Some convert RGB to YCbCr, some don't. Some clip whiter than white and blacker than black and some don't. Each firmware from the software players are also different.

2. Some displays recognize PCs as PCs (during initial EDID) and forces displays to revert to RGB PC Levels. This can cause crush or elevated black levels.

3. Multiple conversions of colour space. As I said, displays accept both YCbCr and RGB and some do worse with one compared to the other.

4. Video cards are also know to cause gamma curve alterations especially if the inbuilt profile is not defeated.

5. Both hardware and software can cause weird colour errors that cannot be explained at some times.

If someone has the knowledge, tools and the patience, yes its possible but its more work than people think.

I am testing one right now. Full Menu Blu Ray Player

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Also for a steelbook its a decent price.

The movie is typically filmed as 24fps. This is mainly done to save film.

Also, the main issue is also that HDMI 1.4 does not support 1080p/60 as yet. HDMI 2.0 will support 1080p/60p.

I did answer the question a couple of posts back.

No its nothing to do with what u said.

1stly, 24fps was decided for a number of reasons. I believe they tested various framerates that could mimic natural motion and 24fps was deemed as the minimum required to capture film while maintaining the look desired. The savings is during film capture not for storage onto disc.

Now for consumer media requirement, for the longest time the medium was DVD which maxed out at 8GB. With HD-DVD it was 30GB, BD was 50GB. Of course, to preserve the original frame rate that capture was done, the medium is also delivered in 24fps.

HDMI.org consists of a few members and these things take time....

Amazon France is running a Buy 5 Get 5 Free offer for BluRay. Pls check region and shipping might not be the cheapest but still its as good as B0G0.

Amazon B5G5