I am sorry to bulge in, cos I don't have a BD except just a 32' LCD.

But here's my take.

After years of playing around with movies, HT (basic only) equipment, and personally love photography etc.. in order to demo HD stuff, I would suggest to separate the functions. ie, play different disc when you demo the pictures, and play something else if you want to test the audio itself.

Some movies, eg. O brother where art thou, the movie has been shot in film, but digitally modified to even change the green leaves into golden yellow to bring up the autumn, dusty, old-film appearence. Some movies featuring ocean, sea water, will be more skewed towards bluish tint, and intensified to bring up the colour tone, both skin and the water. Saving Private Ryan are deliberately mod to appear grainy, greyish, low skin tone, to reflect the cold, inhumane conditions of the war itself. However, being an Oscar best sound winner, Saving Private Ryan will be ideal to test its audio functions.

It is therefore better to collect some more nature related movies, eg. some IMAX nature features, or one of my old time favourite Baraka, which was shot in 70mm, with excellent wide angle take, I think those with 50inches screen or wider will feature it very very well.

Live concert is very bad for screening purposes, except perhaps for its sound recording, nothing else. Its colours are artificial, depending only on the live concert lighting.

This post has been edited by peter32: Jan 31 2009, 12:34 PM