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There are rabid South Park fans who can't get enough of it, there are those who can't abide it, and then a few in the middle.
This is a show that I'd watch with my son once he thought I was old enough, and found it oddly humorous.
Having grown up on Disney animation, where one can count the moving blades of grass in the background, South Park seemed somehow less animated. Even less so than the Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies.
I've also only had the opportunity to see it broadcast in standard definition on a rear projection LCD. Seeing South Park projected in high definition on a hundred or so inch screen is a slightly different experience.
Rather like the difference between damming up water in a slowly moving stream and watching it rise an inch as a child, and Charlton Heston parting the waters of the Sea.
South Park on Blu-ray may be too radical an experience for some.
Colors pop in intensity, while facial highlights play in and out of meticulously drawn shadows. Well, there may actually not be any facial highlights, but I surmise that skin tones are accurate to something. Everything has been raised to hurricane force imagery.
The audio also is a totally different experience in Dolby True HD. The score, while not reaching the heights of Moross, Steiner, Korngold or Bernstein, takes on a life of its own with new intensity and clarity.
Even the performances stand out in Blu-ray, as the camera hovers for even larger close-ups, with details more readily perceived. There is nothing more electrifying that a fine thespian in close up.
For those who hold South Park in a special place, Paramount's new Blu-ray of Season Twelve, may be the final point toward the decision toward the purchase of a Blu-ray player and a huge screen.
Life is good, and South Park on Blu-ray has everything a fan could ask. It comes Highly Recommended.
BTW, rumors that South Park is shot on three-strip Technicolor are false.
RAH
This is a show that I'd watch with my son once he thought I was old enough, and found it oddly humorous.
Having grown up on Disney animation, where one can count the moving blades of grass in the background, South Park seemed somehow less animated. Even less so than the Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies.
I've also only had the opportunity to see it broadcast in standard definition on a rear projection LCD. Seeing South Park projected in high definition on a hundred or so inch screen is a slightly different experience.
Rather like the difference between damming up water in a slowly moving stream and watching it rise an inch as a child, and Charlton Heston parting the waters of the Sea.
South Park on Blu-ray may be too radical an experience for some.
Colors pop in intensity, while facial highlights play in and out of meticulously drawn shadows. Well, there may actually not be any facial highlights, but I surmise that skin tones are accurate to something. Everything has been raised to hurricane force imagery.
The audio also is a totally different experience in Dolby True HD. The score, while not reaching the heights of Moross, Steiner, Korngold or Bernstein, takes on a life of its own with new intensity and clarity.
Even the performances stand out in Blu-ray, as the camera hovers for even larger close-ups, with details more readily perceived. There is nothing more electrifying that a fine thespian in close up.
For those who hold South Park in a special place, Paramount's new Blu-ray of Season Twelve, may be the final point toward the decision toward the purchase of a Blu-ray player and a huge screen.
Life is good, and South Park on Blu-ray has everything a fan could ask. It comes Highly Recommended.
BTW, rumors that South Park is shot on three-strip Technicolor are false.
RAH
