What happened bro? Glad you're back now.

The BD30's advantage is for bitstreaming, everything else is the same as PS3. But PS3 still win as the fastest loader and with the latest Profile 2.0 (BD-Live, though not as important, still an advantage).

Fot twice the price of PS3, in my opinion the BD30 is still not worth it.

Where you order Batman? So fast ship already?

The new movie, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, the title will not be changed.

Oh OK bro, no wonder, Batman is from Warner.

It's just a placeholder bro. It's totally Amazon only, no announcement yet. I think you can also see placeholders for Star Wars and Indiana Jones.

Check this link:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_d?url=se...blu-ray&x=0&y=0

This post has been edited by aiman04: Jul 4 2008, 02:48 PM

Have you seen "2001: A Space Odyssey"? Or "Patton", etc?

Old won't necessarily have bad PQ. Those old movies that was shot on 70mm Panavision could just blow away most of the new 35mm Super35 films.

The only discs that goes into my PS3 is BD and SACD.

I use a standalone DVD player just for DVD and CD.

Blu-ray Disc



DVD



If you're buying blu-ray movies from other than region A, check this site to make sure it's region free (click on the region you're buying from):

http://bluray.liesinc.net/

*Not all Blu-ray movies got region coding, usually only for new titles, when some other regions may still screening in cinemas. Fox is the only studio that is known to really emphasize on region coding even for old movies.

Check the theater release for any movie at IMDB. You'll see that the release day can vary up to 3 months for different countries around the world. And usually theater runs can take up to one month.

Don't you think they want everyone to see it in theater first? It's just simple marketing logic.

Those who bought a BD and found out the price went down after that, write pr call Amazon for a price match and they will refund to you the difference. Only make sure it's within 30 days after your date of purchase. Many of us do that all the time.

And for those who still don't understand about release dates, please write to the respective studios around the world and ask them. Thanks.

PS: Lucky for me Warner understands that not everyone like the whole trilogy, they're also releasing each parts separately. I'm only buying part 1.

This post has been edited by aiman04: Jul 7 2008, 07:03 AM

Check my post few pages back, as quoted here:

Click on the region that you want to buy the BD from, on top of the website. Locked or not it's respective to the region you chose. I can see Run Fatboy Run and The Island and the Pirate movies.

Amazon or any other retailer doesn't matter, it's the BD itself region locked by the studios or not.

That's the only reason we buy it from UK or Japan. Because they're yet to be release in US. Not because they're cheaper, that's for sure.

From my experience, standard shipping from Amazon UK always arrives in 7 - 8 days including weekends.

If you guys concerns about lossless audio, please check your order at Amazon UK. Some of them don't have lossless audio, i.e. The Island.

Not just Amazon UK, I ordered QED cables from another retailer in UK, arrived just in 7 days also. So it's the UK's Royal Mail that's to be commended (puls the advantage of daily flights).

Ditto.

I've tested Shoot 'Em Up again last night. My receiver finally correctly showing 7.1 channels. Sony has fixed the DTS-HD MA 7.1 bug. And if you go to system About, the "LIMITED" is no longer there at the DTS-HD MA logo.

This is the most important fix to me for this 2.41 firmware. The other thing is the upscaling of standard-def content (special features, etc, before this they we not upscaled leaving my TV automatically turn-off the "Just Scan" screen setting). About the 1080i deinterlacing, it will only works if you use 1080i discs (like Celine Dion, etc) and you MUST have a 1080p TV.

Now PS3 is just almost perfect as a BD player. The only thing short is the bitstreaming (which is the exact opposite in standalone players, internal decoding players are more expensive then the only bitstreaming ones).

This post has been edited by aiman04: Jul 9 2008, 07:01 AM

The new update for upscaling is only for standard-def content in BLU-RAY DISC ONLY. See here for full details:

http://asia.playstation.com/hk/ps3/eng/ps3....htm#dvd_output

Your display MUST be full HD, only then you'll see the benefit of 1080i de-interlacing. The Optoma HD65 in not full HD. You'll never get to see 1080p if your display isn't 1080p to begin with.

Neoradi, Shoot 'Em Up is mindless action movie that I usually sell after first viewing. But this one is fun and the action is incredible, I keep it just to admire my own 7.1 setup.

The PS3 uses the Silicon Image SiI9032, which transmits HDMI 1.3 protocols. Whether the SiI9032 supports bitstream transmission of Dolby TrueHD and dts-HD Master Audio is still a debate. It's not proven to be capable of bitstreaming HBR, but it has not been proven otherwise either. So who knows. Though I'm not hoping for it anyway.

Replace always with mostly.

Spot on.

I remember back last year, everyone was saying that PS3 can never decode DTS-HD MA because of hardware limitations, need spearate chip lah, this and that lah... But just look at it now, one firmware update we can enjoy DTS-HD MA already!

But I have to be honest, don't hope too much for this bitstreaming thing.

This post has been edited by aiman04: Jul 9 2008, 12:09 PM