rthj,
Was looking at bluraymods.com and saw some panas and sony's that have the hacked region free chips. Interesting. Know anyone in Europe who has tried this?

OT: I am clearing some BD. This is for people in Penang. Pls link below

Playstation Store

mys-terious and I come close on many occasions to set it up but always something comes up at last minute. Hopefully can demo soon.

[quote=corez,Nov 21 2008, 04:19 PM]
Nope, I wanna buy the Uk version. No need transformers.

Do you see a difference in PQ and AQ?

I thought Black Friday is next week. It is normally the last Friday of November after Thanksgiving...

An interesting read in IGN on the top 25 BD out there

IGN Link for Top25 BDs

Amazon UK added some new titles for Buy 3 for Price of 2. Unfortunately, some of the newer titles are region locked (Fox, Disney). Anyone with Region B player will be happy though.

[quote=aiman04,Nov 25 2008, 01:20 PM]
Blu-ray.com reviews The Dark Knight:

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=743&show=review

Over in the US a lot of them have already got TDK from smaller shops that are releasing it almost 2 weeks before release but I guess it is at full price USD40. Lucky devils...

Agreed sounds dumb but some people dig that, but it would be great to get it early at reduced prices though...the real lucky ones are the part time reviewers who get their BD/DVD delivered ahead of time for review purposes. Tough job but nice one to have. How many movies they can watch in a day and remain objective is another thing.

Yeah but it's a Fox title so will be region locked! That's the sad part.

Edit: It is actually a Paramount title not Fox, Paramount is usually not region locked...

This post has been edited by anfieldude: Nov 25 2008, 09:28 PM

Sorry I'll take that back, it's actually Paramount, so I believe it should not be region locked. My mistake!

When Matrix Trilogy was 1st listed in Amazon UK it was listed for UK14.99. Most people thought it was a mistake and Amazon would not honour the price but Amazon di honour the price. Great price...

Wanted Steelbook available in Amazon UK. How is this movie? Anyone has watched the BD?

Wanted Steelbook - Amazon UK

Aiman,

Not necessarily right. They could always remove the extras and the additional languages and only keep one lossless audio. Some of the movies do not exceed 25G with 1 audio. I believe it is possible especially on the titles that only use up 30G of the space only and the rest are used for extras..

Anyway, something needs to give if pirates want to cramp everything into one BD25. Same thing as the pirates do for the DVDs as well. The compress a dual layer D9 into a single layer and the man on the street does not complain. The main problem is the man on the street and particularly Malaysians. We do not demand better, eg watching bad DVD D9 copies by supporting piracy and not caring about quality. Its down to the mentality. If only the movie studios could come up with a better pricing strategy for Asian countries and say we get Amazon like prices for ori DVD and BD in Malaysia, I believe more and more people will buy ori. As long as the current pricing structure remains, hope for ori BD and DVD in Malaysia is really looking gloomy...We would still need to import..

Agreed. Piracy is not the way to go. The problem is in Asia it will always exist. The only reason DVD in Asia picked up so much and the price of DVD players dropped is due to piracy. I believe for the BD format to survive and pick up in Asia the same thing needs to happen. More and more people are downloading from the net which in itself is piracy. The original DVD/BD pricing is important in this region. In the US anti piracy laws a very strict but more importantly the price of the BD/DVD is low for their income level. Moreover, they have fantastic rental like Blockbuster/Netflix that you can go rent high quality BD for as low as USD1-2 per title per day. For them it is the same as RM1-2 per day. I believe some forumers are doing so but it is still not as far reaching as the US/Europe. Things need to change for this to become mainstream in Asia. A lot of people come over to my house to watch BD and are left awed after they see the potential but 99% of them balk at the price even I pay for the BD and I have failed to convert these people to see the value in original. They rather go back to their RM5 DVD9 single layer and give up the quality. I think this needs to change. Same scenario as seen in the political scene.

BD needs to pick up and sadly for it to pick up in Asia and for BD player prices to drop worldwide I really think Asia needs to contribute. That, in my opinion, for Asia can only happen thru BD piracy. Same as how VHS>VCD>DVD became popular in Asia.

Still it does not mean I support piracy, but I fear this is the only way for BD to pick up ground

Just watched Tropic Thunder. LFE action very good and very low/loud. I believe those with good subwoofers will be pleased. Great acting by Robert Downey Jr.

Yep, I agree, IMHO Kungfu Panda, PQ and AQ pretty much reference. PQ very close or even slightly more 3D look compared to Ratattouile. AQ superb.

Oppo has released some beta players in the US. BD83 I believe. They are also planning to do some pre release tests where they are giving at special discounts. I believe the price range is ~USD499-599. Still using the great ABT1012 chip, so DVD playback should be excellent and I believe the BD processing as well.

Price is definately against the Oppo compared to the Panny. I think one of the plus points on the Oppo is that it is most likely to be dual voltage (ie, 100-240V) so no transformer is necessary.

To all those who have received the TDK, check out the easter egg on disc 2. It captures the essence of the Joker.

From High Def Digest:

If you select the third theatrical trailer on Disc 2 and enter the following numbers on your player's remote: 5 6 5 3 7 (enter them slowly, with one or two second pauses between each number)the screen will go blank and the Joker-ized version of the same trailer will play.

The numbers spell out the word "Joker".

Check it out, its funny.

This post has been edited by anfieldude: Dec 17 2008, 09:39 AM