Who kidnapped DaViD Boulet ?!

Paul_Scott · 06-04-2006, 06:02 AM

That's the only explanation I can come up with for not seeing any posts from him the same night he finally got to see a Blu-ray demo.

Should we call the police?
Maybe a moderator here can go knock on his door and see if he's alright.

I'm sure he wouldn't leave us hanging like this unless something was terribly terribly not right.

JohnS · 06-04-2006, 07:45 AM

maybe he dropped dead at the sight of the stunning picture from Fifth Element, at Milla Jovovich

Jesse Blacklow · 06-04-2006, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by JohnS

maybe he dropped dead at the sight of the stunning picture from Fifth Element, at Milla Jovovich

Actually, that was the least stunning picture from the demo. As for David himself, I don't know. He was certainly still hale and hearty when I headed home.

Peter Overduin · 06-04-2006, 05:36 PM

he was last seen leaving the blu-ray demo; walking in a catatonic state of delirium down the city sidewalk at about 1030 p.m., searching for any pawn shop that had "video 8-track" players and demo tapes.

All attempts to give him video cassette tapes met with negative results.

Updates will be provided as they become available.

Nils Luehrmann · 06-04-2006, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Peter Overduin

he was last seen leaving the blu-ray demo; walking in a catatonic state of delirium down the city sidewalk at about 1030 p.m., searching for any pawn shop that had "video 8-track" players and demo tapes.

All attempts to give him video cassette tapes met with negative results.

Updates will be provided as they become available.

I heard he was kidnaped, tied and gagged by a high profile new member. Apparently he is holding David hostage until Columbia/Tristar, Fox, MGM, Disney, and Lion's Gate agree to support HD DVD.

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Manus · 06-05-2006, 04:29 AM

" heard he was kidnaped, tied and gagged by a high profile new member. Apparently he is holding David hostage until Columbia/Tristar, Fox, MGM, Disney, and Lion's Gate agree to support HD DVD."

Can we send him some food parcels ?? Cos that could be one long wait

~M~

Rob_HD · 06-05-2006, 06:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Nils Luehrmann

I heard he was kidnaped, tied and gagged by a high profile new member. Apparently he is holding David hostage until Columbia/Tristar, Fox, MGM, Disney, and Lion's Gate agree to support HD DVD.

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DaViD Boulet · 06-05-2006, 10:12 AM

I'm here!

Had a weekend filled with home rennovations... rebuilding my stair-case...

So...want to know about that BD demo?

Bottom line: INCREDIBLE. truely incredible. And this was MPEG2 recordable-BD played on a prototype Sony BD player outputting only 1080i to Sony's qualia SXRD RP TV which was then line-doubling (DRC, similar to bobbing) back to 1080P on the screen.

And *still*, even without full 1080P thru-put or 3-2 pulldown reversal/frame reconstruction, the image was beyond belief.

True 1080P would have been even *better*.

I noticed no MPEG compression artifacts whatsoever. One member (prominent at AVS, Plazman) insisted he saw "ringing" around hard text/edges. Getting up close to the set in one or two instances there *may* have been the slightest hint of ringing around text, but it was most likely a product of the DRC/television's own processing as it was visible even around the text edges of still-frame menus which would have no MPEG2 signature.

I'll post a linke when I get a more thorough review...

DaViD Boulet · 06-05-2006, 10:43 AM

My report:

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htf/...06#post2881906

JohnS · 06-05-2006, 11:52 AM

Thanks David. I'm still surprised about Fifth Element being "not that impressive".
Could it have been possibloe they were using a SD master?

DaViD Boulet · 06-05-2006, 11:59 AM

My first thought was "they used the SD master for the Fifth Element".

It looked *just* like the super-bit DVD upscaled on my own system. No sharper... detail might have been a touch better, but not dramatically so.

And side-by-side with the rest of the HD demo clips it looked like "hugh? Why is the Fifth Element lacking that crisp, 3-dimensional look of the rest of the clips?"