300: HD DVD edition - Best hidef disc, period? A review. (1 Viewer)

[Paul Arnette]

Nevermind.

 

[Robert Harris]

Both versions are True HD encoded.

RAH

 

[DaViD Boulet]

Romar,

we might be able to infer that from the average bit-rate of the TrueHD stream once we get to play it on the PS3 and compare against the average bit-rate for a standard 16-bit TrueHD disc.

A 24-bit TrueHD should be about twice the bit-rate of a 16 bit.

 

[Douglas Monce]

David do we know if the original masters were recorded at 24bit? They aren't always. In fact more often than not sound effects libraries are on audio CDs and on set audio is almost always recorded at 16bit. 24 bit TrueHD might be waste of space.

Doug

 

[MarekM]

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...&#post10704934

 

[Sam Davatchi]

Come on, isn't that like old!! .....some place!

 

[Jon Moss]

I live in the UK, my US Blu-ray copy was shipped on 20th July & received on the 24th.

There's a lot of online sites that appear to receive copies & ship them a couple of weeks before the official release date. I'm not sure if this is breaking any regulations, but hell I'm not complaining!

 

[DaViD Boulet]

Doug,

obviously this only has meaning in the context of a PCM master that's 24 bit resolution to begin with. I don't know the situation with this particular master. I was only suggesting a realiable way to determine whether the Dolby TrueHD encode on a particular disc happened to be 16 or 24 bits, since that was the question that was asked.

 

[aaron campbell]

According to this post by Robert George says the 300 HD-DVD smokes the PS3 downloadable trailer .

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...=879285&page=4

 

[DaViD Boulet]

Yeah, saw that too. Good news, I hope that's representative of how it will look to the rest of us since both the HD DVD and BD will share this VC-1 encode.

 

[aaron campbell]

David, Tuesday can't get here fast enough to grab that Blu disc for me.

 

[Alf S]

While at CC last night they had a Blu Ray display going showing an extended making of "300"...the images of the interviews with the directors, actors etc was crystal clear..very 3D like (32" flat panel set up)..however when they showed various scenes from the movie I was shocked at how grainy the movie looked...I never saw it in the theater, is that how the original looked?

 

[MarekM]

yup, there is a lot of grain in movie..

Marek

 

[Alf S]

Thanks...

Personally I found it to be extremely annoying...and that was just seeing 5 minute snippets of the film...watching the whole movie with that much grain seems almost too distracting for me.

 

[aaron campbell]

The grain haters will be all over this release.

 

[Grant H]

Yep, these days cartoon colors are the only acceptable form of stylistic choice.

 

[Alf S]

Curious....Have either of you actually seen 300 footage?

 

[aaron campbell]

Not on disc. I saw it at the theater ( DLP showing). I also have the free dvd they gave away before the movie was out. And the PS3 trailer download.

 

[Douglas Monce]

Oh I see what you were getting at.

Doug

 

[MarekM]

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/300.html

he is writing bitrate for PCM 6.9mbit 16bit, as far as I know 6.9mbit is 24bit

anybody with PS3 can confirm this ?

Marek