Wah, tdy very quiet one... either everybody still in holiday mood or too busy, work all piling up...

Managed to catch Lara Croft: Tomb Raider yesterday. Almost the entire movie was covered with grain even though the print master seemed to be in good condition. At this point how I wish that the 'avoidable' DNR technique should be applied on this one! The grainy is not film-like & its becoming a distraction especially on darkly lit and interior scenes. The exterior daytime shot however are quite sharp & almost grainless.

I'm not sure whether this grainy effect was intentional or the film stock used was of low quality. It could've been a good sight, this movie... because the cinematography of Peter Menzies Jr. was quite good (I like his work on Incredible Hulk ). I suspected the reason being Paramount utilised MPEG-2 codec for their early releases like this movie, instead of the now preferred MPEG-4 AVC like the recent Iron Man and Indy 4 bds. Maybe this artifact may not be so apparent on a bigger, full HD TV.... or was it the other way round? (mine is 32" & HD-ready onli... )

PQ: 3 out of 5 (AQ is nothing to comment, the DD 5.1 is pretty norm to me...)

Agreed with you, the PQ for this movie is so crappy that you might as well just watch the DVD version and won't notice difference. AQ is also a major disappointment. Probably it was released many moons back at a time when everyone was just beginning to experience HD. I actually "forced" myself to finish the movie and very quickly sell it off before it loses its value. Just my 2 sen.

You're right. Maybe I might as well follow your footstep... I bought it in the first place because I wanted to upgrade my old featureless JackSparrow dvd... & there's this Amazon 3-for-2 deal...

BD PQ so bad u need to avoid:-

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Total Recall

The story so bad u need to avoid:

Mummy 3 : Tomb of The Dragon Emperor

wahahha....i love amazon UK

order on 2nd of February, today received liao
just use the default post nia

fuyoo... mummy 3 ok la

tomb raider no choice... i jiak the BD nie

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Added on February 10, 2009, 11:02 pmdemm quiet la ...LOL

wondering wat is everyone doing??

bz bLU-ing?

This post has been edited by megatron007: Feb 10 2009, 11:02 PM

These too....

Kiss Of The Dragon
Gangs Of New York

morning guys...
anyone who got YesAsia coupon and decided not to buy anything until the expiry date kindly PM me...
thx...

Notice the price diffrence between the DVD and BD? Only $5 for both US and Canada.

And what's the price diffrence between DVD and BD in Malaysia? At Speedy I can see local region DVDs selling for RM29.90, some even lower than RM20, and region 1 DVDs for RM69.90. But BDs all between RM149.90 to RM169.90.

They got their BDs direct from distributors, their cost of importing is not as high as what we've been spending to get from Amazon.com. The most reasonable RRP for BD should be RM99.90 in my opinion, and maybe RM119.90 for new titles. Or if they still want to maintain at RM149.90, they can give minimal 30% all the time like Amazon.

I know we can still get cheaper than that from Amazon but at least it's fair to the general public.

i wish tat could happen too

let;s recall back wat happened last time for VCD & DVD when just debut...

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Added on February 11, 2009, 9:01 amRicky Martin Live: Black & White Tour Blu-ray


http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=1978&show=review

super 5 bintang review

This post has been edited by megatron007: Feb 11 2009, 09:01 AM

Released March 24, Amazon Price USD64.99



This post has been edited by mpyw: Feb 11 2009, 09:14 AM

morning guys, just got back my PS3 last nite.....time to watch some blu ray! =)

wow... released oledi..

Brought my Jacky Cheung Blu-ray to Midvalley Megamall Sony yesterday and true enough, the copy that I had won't play on the BDP-S300 and S350. Error Message : Format not supported. LOL..

Also tried it on one of the game shop's PS3 and still no go. The funny part is, the disc plays ok on my friends PS3 (Malaysian launch unit).

I've sent it back to Play-asia. I think I've done enough to prove that its a dud copy.

keep me posted on ur return process... basically i dun have good expereince with them ..

Taukeh, you bought BDs from playasia b4?

once durign the octopus sales

sian

so far for me play-asia is ok....no late delivery except for once...