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Originally Posted by Jari K
Well, 1080p doubles the resolution vs. SD DVD, so yes, it´ll look better.
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MSRP matching the SD to boot! 
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Originally Posted by Yee-Ming
IIRC, most footage in For All Mankind was shot on 16mm, so I wonder how much of an improvement we'll see on BD?
Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love this. Just wondering about the technical limitations, is all. And if there is an improvement, yes I'll double-dip. |
| I'm really surprised that many of their most popular titles (Brazil) were passed over and many of their flagship directors aren't represented like [...] Bergman (Seventh Seal, The Virgin Spring, etc [...] |
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Originally Posted by andrew markworthy
However, Third Man is a definite (sorry to sound stupid, but I didn't know there'd been a re-release) and also Walkabout (nothing to do with wanting to see Jenny Agutter in the nude at five times the detail of course, but rather because I only have the somewhat indifferent R2 release).
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"How wonderful it will be to have a leader unburdened by the twin horrors of knowledge and experience." -- Mr. Wick
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Originally Posted by Danny_N
1080p is 5 times the resolution of SD..
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Rewind - DVDcompare/Site Administrator
*US PS3 (1080p) - Xbox 360 Elite (HDMI) - Nintendo Wii (Euro) - Sony PSP-2000 - Nintendo DSi
*HD DVD Toshiba XE1 (1080p) - Sony Bravia KDL-40W2000 (1080p) - Yamaha RX-V1800 (HDMI 1.3)
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Originally Posted by andrew markworthy
I don't know how other folks have found it, but generally I think older black and white releases in high def have been superb and for the first time (to me at least) they look truly 'filmic'. Casablanca in HD is a particular case in point.
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Originally Posted by Brandon Conway
And 1080p is 6x the resolution of 480p. |
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Originally Posted by Danny_N
For NTSC. For PAL it would be 5x if I'm not mistaken.
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Just another amateur learning to paint w/ "the light of the world".
| Hopefully none of Criterion's releases will be region coded. |
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Originally Posted by Dan M
hope they bring on a blu SPARTACUS soon
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STOP THE MADNESS! STOP THE BUTCHERING AND ABANDONMENT OF TV SHOWS ON DVD!
My DVD List at DVD Aficionado, Now Featuring Blu-Ray
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Originally Posted by MatthewA
And hopefully it is not the same transfer as Universal's HD DVD. Maybe Robert Harris can supervise once he finishes with The Godfather trilogy.
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"Bye for Now"
- Sir Jimmy Young
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Originally Posted by TonyD
Armageddon
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I know it technically is not, however.
" I think it's time we go to plan B". "What's plan B?" "That's the one where we don't do something stupid".
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Originally Posted by troy evans
I think Disney will release this to Blu. They did a great job with The Rock and carried over all the extras that were on the Criterion release. In a way, you could say that The Rock is our first Criterion Blu-ray.
I know it technically is not, however. |
"To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men."
Operation Iraqi Freedom Campaign Veteran, 06-08.
My DVD Collection: DVD Aficionado (Needs updating, lol)
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Originally Posted by Viper
There's too many super hits that are being ignored for no good reason, especially now that the format war is over.
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" I think it's time we go to plan B". "What's plan B?" "That's the one where we don't do something stupid".
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Originally Posted by TonyD
must haves for me
Armageddon |
| Criterion took its time in announcing its first high-def disc releases. Was this intentional? We're a small company, we think hard about everything we do, and it took quite a while for this market to shake itself out. But once the smoke cleared, we decided to start addressing the considerable number of customers who have been clamoring for us to get into the HD field. At what pace do you plan to release films on Blu-ray? It's going to be more in the realm of one or two a month, rather than the four or five releases per month we're capable of putting out on DVD. Is there significant value for the average Criterion fan to having films made available in high-def? Absolutely. There's a luminous quality to real film, and HD resolution captures that. I particularly love black-and-white [films] in HD. They're gorgeous, and that's one of the big secrets of Blu-ray: how good black-and-white movies look. What sort of extras will we be seeing? In many cases, the supplemental features will be the same ones as on the DVD. We don't have any more to say now about Seven Samurai than we did when we put out the three-DVD set. One big difference with Blu-ray is that the menu space exists in the movie space. Now there's a pop-up menu, which means our navigation is intruding into the world of film. And we've got very strong feelings about how one ought to behave in a theater! The interior of the movie theater is a sacred space, and we want our pop-up menu treatments to be respectful of that. Does Criterion plan to use Blu-ray's BD-Live features or Bonus View PIP capability for commentary tracks? Our idea has always been that the content needs to be well produced and well served. Where the bells and whistles of the medium help us to do that, we'll use them. We're interested in some of the ways Blu-ray offers us to annotate the movies and to update our releases. The online component is very interesting to us, but beyond that, there's nothing that has caused a eureka moment with these first editions. |
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