Blu-ray owners: What BR titles do you have, are you excited about? (1 Viewer)

[Neil Joseph]

I thought I would finally ask this question now that there are some of us with BR machines and titles to go along with it. Maybe you can mention which are the most fun/demo-worthy titles too. Here are mine .....

- 300
- 50 First Dates
- Aeon Flux
- Alien vs. Predator
- Annapolis
- The Ant Bully
- Apocalypto
- ATL
- Behind Enemy Lines
- Bridge To Terabithia
- The Brothers Grimm
- Casino Royale
- Chicken Little
- Chris Botti: Live
- The Corpse Bride
- Deja Vu
- The Devil Wears Prada
- Dreamgirls
- Eight Below
- Enemy Of The State
- Eragon
- Fantastic 4
- The Fifth Element - remastered
- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
- Flags Of Our Fathers
- Flight Of The Phoenix
- Flightplan
- Flyboys
- The Fugitive
- The Guardian
- Happy Feet
- The Haunted Mansion
- Hellboy
- Ice Age: The Meltdown
- Into The Blue
- John Legend: Live At The House Of Blues
- King Arthur
- Kingdom Of Heaven
- A Knight's Tale
- Kung Fu Hustle
- Ladder 49
- The Last Samurai
- Legends Of Jazz Showcase
- The Messengers
- Mission: Impossible
- Mission: Impossible 2
- Mission: Impossible 3
- Monster House
- Night At The Museum
- Open Season
- Pearl Harbor
- Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl
- Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- Planet Earth
- Planet Of The Apes (2001)
- The Prestige
- The Pursuit Of Happyness
- S.W.A.T.
- Sahara
- Sky High
- Space Cowboys
- Speed
- Stargate
- Stealth
- Superman Returns
- Terminator 2
- TMNT
- Total Recall
- Ultraviolet
- Vertical Limit
- Warriors Of Heaven And Earth
- The Wild
- World Trade Center
- X-Men: The Last Stand

I would like to give special mention to the Chris Botti disk, especially the audio which has been done in pcm 5.1 at 96khz, 24bit. I had read somewhere that the throughput for audio alone was 13.8Mbps. It sure shows when you actually sit down and listen to this. For music, my previous favourite demo was Legends Of Jazz which is no slouch either with DDtrueHD.


Let me also remind members to please discuss the subject without adding other un-needed comments about the 2 formats. I had to ban a member from participating in this thread for that very reason. This is all about BR titles folks. Thankyou

 

[ToEhrIsHuman]

Well, I have yet to break the seal on my PS3 yet, but I have the following titles either in my possession or on the way (i.e. from Amazon*):

Superman: The Movie
Superman II: The Donner Cut
X-Men: The Last Stand
The Terminator
A Christmas Story*
The Searchers*

Can't wait to break that bad boy open in a couple weeks.

Edit: Oh yeah...I forgot the theatrical version PS3 pack-in of 'Talladega Nights'.

 

[Dave_P.]

As of 12/11:

Aeon Flux
Black Hawk Down
Brothers Grimm
Click
Devil Wears Prada
Eight Below
Enemy of The State
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (unrated)
The Fifth Element
Four Brothers
Full Metal Jacket
Glory Road
House of Wax
Ice Age 2
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
Kiss of The Dragon
A Knight's Tale
Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon 2
Little Man
Million Dollar Baby
Mission: IMpossible 3
Monster House
Nacho Libre
The Omen
One Last Thing
RV
Rising Sun
Sahara
Sky High
Sleepy Hollow
Speed
Stealth
Superman 2
Superman Returns
Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby (unrated SE)
Tears of The Sun
Terminator
Terminator 2
Total Recall
Under Seige
Underworld: Evolution
Unforgiven
World Trade Center
X-Men 3

 

[Brian Kaz]

Kingdom of Heaven
Blackhawk Down
X-men 3
Ice Age 2
Sky Captain
Unforgiven
Talladega Nights
A Christmas Story
Christmas Vacation
Memento
Pirates 1
Pirates 2
Superman Returns
Superman: The Movie
The Prestige
Layer Cake
Fifth Element
Casino Royale
Corpse Bride
Goodfellas
Blazing Saddles
Identity
Big Fish
Usual Suspects
Kung Fu Hustle

 

[Heresy]

What are a couple of title that are 'WOW' inducing? I would like to get something to showoff the technology over the holidays.

 

[Dave_P.]

A few suggestions:

Black Hawk Down
Enemy of The State
Ice Age 2
Speed
X3

 

[Neil Joseph]

The Wild is a nice showpiece especially for video that I used to show my guests just today how detailed the BR image can be.

 

[Arthur Legardo]

Underword Evolution
Kingdom of Heaven
Blackhawk Down
The Corpse Bride
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Talladega Nights (I had no choice, it came with the PS3)

 

[James St]

Talladega Nights (PS3)
Black Hawk Down
Kingdom of Heaven
Speed

 

[Steve Tannehill]

Owned:

Aeon Flux
Crash
Eight Below
Enemy of the State
The Fifth Element
Four Brothers
Good Night, and Good Luck
House of Flying Daggers
Ice Age The Meltdown
The Italian Job
Kingdom of Heaven
The Last Waltz
Memento
Mission Impossible 1/II/III
Monster House
Nacho Libre
The Omen
Reds
Sahara
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Sky High
The Terminator
Tomb Raider
Total Recall
U2: Rattle and Hum
The Wild
World Trade Center
X3 - The Last Stand

On Order from Amazon:

The Brothers Grimm
Chicago
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Pearl Harbor
The Princess Bride
Rising Sun
Speed
Talladega Nights
Terminator 2

 

[Jordan_E]

Dang, Steve! "Owned" is right!
I have, other than that terrible TN...

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Man, I need to get to get out more often.

 

[Steve Tannehill]

So do I.

You should see my HD DVD collection...

- Steve

 

[Dan Hitchman]

For my PS3 I own:

Legends of Jazz
Black Hawk Down
Blazing Saddles
Dinosaur
Enemy Of The State
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
The Italian Job
Kingdom Of Heaven
Speed
Superman: The Movie
Superman II
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (PS3)

 

[Joe Cole]

I am not at home so I can not post a list of the BD disks I currently own. I do have a related question for now. Is there a simple why of determining which BD are 50gig versions? And would any one know why they all are not 50gig? Is it more expensive to do or more difficult to manufacture?

I currently have watched no 50 gig BDs but Black Hawk Down should be delivered today.

I have watched:

Tears of the Sun, not 50gig but very impressive none the less
Ant Bully also impressive
Fifth Element ok but not impressive
Some of T-2 looks good.

T-3 looks good but not at the top.

Still even 5th Element shows the potential of the medium.

I have Enemy of the State and Kingdom of Heaven on order as well as PH, all are 50gig BDs.

 

[Neil Joseph]

You know, with all the backlash against The Fifth Element (that is deserved) it still looks pretty darned good on my system and I was expecting worse the first time I viewed the disk.

To answer your question, it took a while to master the process of making BD50's, same as it did to make dual layer dvd's a few years back. Prior to this, everything was single layer. It would not surprise me if a few months from now, there are BD75's (who really knows these things). The current crop of BD50's are...

- Click
- Kingdom Of Heaven
- Superman Returns
- Blackhawk Down
- Enemy Of The State
- Superman: The Movie
- Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
- World Trade Center

- Flightplan
- Invincible
- Pearl Harbor
- The Sopranos: Season Six, Part One
- The Descent
- Crank
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse
- Casanova
- Chicago
- The Guardian
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Saw II (Unrated)
- Glory

... the latter portion of this list is titles yet to come in the next 2 months or less.

 

[Hank]

Black Hawk Down
The Fifth Element
Gone In Sixty Seconds
The Great Raid
Monster House
Superman The Movie
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Talladega Nights
Tears Of the Sun
The Transporter

 

[Andrew Bunk]

Black Hawk Down
Enemy Of The State
Fifth Element (free in box of BDP-S1)
Kingdom Of Heaven
Lord Of War
Memento
Rising Sun
Speed
Terminator
Terminator 2
Total Recall

It should be noted that all WB and Paramount dual releases I have on HD DVD for the better audio.

My next BD will be Pearl Harbor.

 

[Neil Joseph]

I thought the audio was the same ^ and that BR just dropped the "plus" designator and the bitrate was the same. Please correct me if I am wrong though.

 

[BrianShort]

Haven't opened the PS3 I just bought so I don't know if it includes Talledega Nights.

I just ordered from Amazon:
Blackhawk Down
Mission: Impossible III
Kingdom of Heaven

And added a pile of titles to my Netflix queue. Yay Netflix!

 

[dkny75]

All Warner titles are the same with the exception of the titles w/TruHD on the HD DVD version. The Paramount titles however are encoded at 1.5 mbps for DD+ and 640 kbps for regular DD and DTS.