Do you need to watch "Firefly" to understand this? I was led to believe that it was a continuation of Firefly?

I think Amazon UK is better in this aspect, they do not increase the price (too much it at all any) before a B2G1 sale. But it does increase during the sale!

This is region locked...

You can check your purchases at this website:

Blu Ray Region Check (Blu Ray Lies)

Fortunately, all the ones you bought are region free

Is IP Man an action oriented movie?

Happy Chinese New Year to all!

Check it out. Sony BDP-S550 is actually cheaper than BDP-S350! USD295 vs USD299!\

Amazon link

21:9 ratio display announce (55in). No more black bars for 2.35:1 material. See link below. I believe many other companies will follow suit soon.

Phillips announces 21:9 ratio display. Trusted Reviews Link

BD delivery. I had 2 shipments from Amazon US ship on 28th Nov. 1st package arrived on Dec 14. 2nd package arrived Feb 3rd! So I guess, you have to trust them and wait....

As far as I know, they plan to release theatrical edition 1st, they will release the extended edition just before the theathrical release of The Hobbit in 2010. End of 2009 is the expected release date for theatrical edition of the trilogy.

How in the world do they cramp 3 lossless tracks in there. LPCM itself will take up the space, they even manage to add a 2 more DTS MA tracks and supplements. The West needs to learn from the Asians on how to utilise space on a BD50....

Bloody low price..I think a few months ago it was at USD18 or something

For those who have it, apparently there are easter eggs for the penguin shorts. Check it out. Courtesy of Pyanfar Chanur "BTB" (Frankfort, KY USA) ]


Easter Eggs! Go to the Penguin episodes menu. Highlight an episode. Move the directional controller on your remote and a penguin appears! Each episode will let you slide off the menu to two penguins, for a total of four extra "short" animations that launch when you select the penguin.

Good to hear that AQ is . Madagascar had great PQ but average Dolby TrueHD AQ!

This post has been edited by anfieldude: Feb 17 2009, 09:20 PM

It was a pleasure calibrating the set. At least now you are sure that what you see is what the director intended. Great grayscale tracking and very accurate colour rendition.

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Added on February 23, 2009, 8:59 amUnfortunately, it was calibrated in ISF mode and the settings are locked. If it was done in user mode, than settings can be shared. It won't be accurate but it will be close. It also depends on the AVR. Some AVRs alter grayscale and colour.

I need to try out a HD65 soon. Maybe bro myst_erious HD65.

Anyway, in my opinion for Blu Ray and DVD viewing calibration makes a difference.

This post has been edited by anfieldude: Feb 23 2009, 08:59 AM

Depending on whether the set allows grayscale calibration and offers a CMS. All Samsungs LCDs from the 6 series have 2 point grayscale calibration and a full CMS. I believe the LGs have grayscale. Panasonic plasmas have 2 point grayscale but it is in the service menu. Pioneers offer 2 point grayscale in the user mode with limited CMS but 9 point gamma correction in the ISF mode! I believe the older Sonys offer grayscale in the user menu. Sharp higher end sets have grayscale I believe. I am not so sure of the the Toshiba sets. If your set has a RGB (gain/cut/bias/offset) in the user menu then it can be calibrated for grayscale. Grayscale calibration helps improve the whites/greys/black calibration, hence improving shadow detail and image quality/depth. It also improves skin tones. A full scale CMS will tame the colour points. Doing grayscale is the most benefit, since most displays have no CMS or poorly designed CMS.

BD is mastered in HD colour space Rec-709 and DVDs are normally NTSC or PAL. NTSC is SMPTE colour space. PAL uses PAL colour space.
Fortunately, the white (D65)/grey colour points are similar for all colour spaces.

Since I in Penang, it is difficult to officially offer any services. If more people are interested, we can talk.

Thanks

This post has been edited by anfieldude: Feb 23 2009, 09:31 AM

As far as I know, the S series offers very little calibration options in the user menu. I believe the only adjustments that can be made are the backlight, brightness, contrast etc. I have seen some people saying that you can calibrate grayscale in the service menu. I will have to get my hands on someone who will allow me to try to calibrate the S-series or even the V-series in service menu before I can be sure.

Anyway, BD viewing will benefit from even basic calibration. At least the brightness, contrast and backlight settings can be accurate. Grayscale calibration would definately benefit BD viewing.

Bro,
Hv u checked ur copy on another display? Let me know if u want to test on mine to confirm.

Will call u later on the timing. The reason why I am suspicious is because you do play fast motionplay games on your display and you have never complained of ghosting. Maybe it is a bad transfer and there are some frame rate irregularities. Plasmas typically don't have ghosting, except some that use the 2 sheets of glass and only when you watch it off-axis (very badly off axis). If you see it on my display, then maybe it is a bad transfer and you can get a replacement. I have not seen this mentioned on any of the reviews. Blu ray.com has the review out. 5 star PQ , AQ.

Arj,

I think you found the problem. The samsungs can refresh 24Hz at 120Hz to reduce judder by turning off AMP. If you turn on AMP there is some processing and I believe a 3:2 pulldown or refresh at 100Hz happens (depending on low/med/high option). I believe there is some discs that are mastered at 24Hz vs 23.97Hz and on some displays there will be artifacting that is similar to ghosting and others if the display cannot process the flags.

Ronnt,
For all BD that is 24Hz (nearly all except concerts and documentaries), AMP should be turned off. I believe that will fix the problem.

Correct if your pj accepts 24fps and it outputs as such, you will not see this problem. I am not sure if the Optoma speeds it up to 48Hz or 72Hz. It will reduce judder but ghosting should not be an issue.

I wish I was a master of PQ, but I'm not and have been wrong before. I am still learning.

Anyway, movies/films are normally shot in 24frames per second (24Hz). This is primarily done to save space. Most BD are mastered in 24 fps (technically it is 23.97 fps - this I am not sure why, a real expert needs to explain this). Thus when played back 24 frames are played back in 1 sec. The problem is the eyes is our eyes does not have this refresh rate stuff. Our eyes can normally detect this when a slow panning shot on camera is showing on a screen. We see 24Hz judder. To counter this, most displays repeat each frame 1/2/3/4/5 (24/48/72/96/120 Hz) per second to reduce the effect of judder and thus showing a more natural picture. Again repeating each frame too many times start introducing a "video" like picture and a lot of videophiles dislike this. I have seen refresh rates of up till 72Hz and do not feel that it is videolike. A lot of pjs have this function as well. JVC, Epson and all. I am not sure of the refresh rates of the Optoma. Hope it helps. Again, my explanation might be slightly off. I believe ar188 is pretty well versed with this stuff as well. Correct me if I am wrong.

The thing is 24Hz judder is as the director meant it. So it is not all that bad. The 24Hz conversion to non multiples of 24/48/72/96/120 like 60Hz, 100Hz is where the judder becomes unbearable. I believe that is what is happening in the case of the AMP being turned on for the Samsungs and other displays that have options for processing of 24Hz material wrongly.

Edit: I believe the term speed up I used in the earlier reply was wrong. It is actually 24Hz being displayed at 48/72/96 Hz , meaning the frames are repeated. Speed up is only normally done for 24fps > 25Hz (each frame is sped up).

This post has been edited by anfieldude: Feb 27 2009, 10:46 AM

Refresh rates are the number of frames the display will show in a second. Same as fps. 100Hz display will take a 50Hz signal and display each frame 2 times this reducing motion related issues when you eye looks at it (thats why sports from Astro looks better on a 100Hz display). 200Hz is the same. Motion flow is a proprietry term used by Sony I believe. It is basically the algorithm/processing on how Sony gets their displays to display 200Hz.

Most new displays have 1080p/24Hz capabilities. The key is if they have implemented them well. Some take the signal and display them at 48Hz, some at 72Hz and some at 96/120Hz. See which looks good to your eyes. Some say displaying the same frame too many times makes the films look more like videos. Some like it some don't, its your preference.

NTSC DVDs do normally have the original 24fps flags in them. If your display can recontsruct the flags you can theoretically extract the 24hps from a DVD. Some displays have this capability. Most video processors have this capabilities as well (Lumagen, DVDO). Again, some BD players have this capability as well (Panasonic BD35, upcoming Oppo BD83).

If this is the wrong place to discuss this, my apologies.