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I hope it looks every bit as good as the previews we all saw on some blu-ray disks.
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I was absolutely blown away by the demo of this that Best Buy had running on the new 52" 120 Hz LCD about a month ago. It looked like a moving painting.
Heck, even on DVD this is probably the most beautiful animated film I've ever seen (certainly the prettiest CGI film).
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I'm listening to a band called the Blood Brothers, and I must say, watching those bannanas dance to it is quite entertaining.
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On top of the impressive A/V quality, the interactive commentary (actually commentaries) is a mighty impressive extra. I would put it at the very top of any HD-specific special features I have seen, including the handful of IMEs I have viewed, and you don't even need a BD profile upgrade to enjoy it. It is not so much the technology employed to implement it as the intelligence with which it is assembled that impresses. It is actually a pretty straightforward extension of the branching commentaries Disney did on standard-def releases like "Atlantis" and "Treasure Planet" with an added slideshow aspect as well as the dashboard interface.
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Cars was a beautiful movie to watch even on standard dvd. The visuals/scenery and colours make it stand out so when I watched it late last night, I too was totally blown away. Damn! Check the scene where
Warning Spoiler! Click to showLightning & Sally take a drive to the Wheel Well Hotel. The detail is astonishing from the cactus and shrubs to the sand, rocks and the cars themselves, which have very shiny, clean, solid primary colours to them
I can't imagine how another transfer can top this one.
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Lightning and Sally's joyride is, visually speaking, one of my very favorite scenes in any movie ever. I didn't catch it in the theater, and I am DYING to see it in glorious HD!!!
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The dvd was good, but the Lightning & Sally scene is finally truly jaw-dropping.
The beg. of this movie kicks so much ass it's not even funny. Got the same goosebumps I got in the theater. The nightime race with the shadows and reflections on the cars adds to the illusion of reality. There is Pixar... then there is a gap the size of Monument Valley... then there is everyone else.
Played with the Cine-Explore feature and the Carfinder game for about 15 minutes each and both worked flawlessly on the PS3. The Cine-Explore looks pretty impressive actually.
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I agree this film is really just stunning, and another great effort from Pixar. They just don't make bad films.
The Cine-expore feature worked well if a little slow on my Samsung. The Carfinder game worked okay, but very slow making it hard to click the car when you see it. The it got to a partucular point, gave me a black screen and I had to eject the disc to get out of it.
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I only own 9 BD titles so far (large collections all begin with those first baby steps
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Cars i'm proud to say is one of them.
Watched it today on my 60" Mitsubishi and I couldn't believe my freakin' eyes!
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I have a question about this movie on BD.
With my setup, when viewing a scene that is outdoors. There seems to be a lot of "haze" to the landscape in the distance. Is this intentional? The close ups, and night scenes look great. Nice and sharp. But the bright, daylight scenes all seem to have a haze to the distant landscapes.
Is this my setup or is the haze put in to make the landscapes look more realistic?
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Is this my setup or is the haze put in to make the landscapes look more realistic?
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It looked that way for me, too. I think it was intentional because during the day there would be haze etc in the distance. If things in the foreground were hazy then I would worry.
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Knowing the Pixar team's attention to these types of details (think the "halo" around Nemo and Marlin in Finding Nemo which represented the protective shield that exists around clownfish), it's safe to assume that haze in the distance is intentional.
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I think I may have sold our pizza man a Blu-ray player lol.
We decided to order a pizza and when it got here I was sampling some of
Cars, when the driver saw the quality of the image he said
"Shit, that's clear! What is it, HD?" I told him it was and it was BD and he said
"I've gotta get one of those.".
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I think I may have sold our pizza man a Blu-ray player lol.
We decided to order a pizza and when it got here I was sampling some of Cars, when the driver saw the quality of the image he said "Shit, that's clear! What is it, HD?" I told him it was and it was BD and he said "I've gotta get one of those.". |
Hopefully, that's not *all* he expects from BD (or we might get lots of average folks clamoring for "clear" and sharp for every single title
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If you don't want "clear and sharp" why bother with Blu-Ray at all? Go back to VHS.
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I'm a bit baffled by that statement myself, isn't clear and sharp what we want?
Obviously not all BD's will look as awesome as
Cars but that doesn't mean the studios can't strive for greatness with their titles.
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