Mission: Impossible III on HD DVD and Blu-ray on October 30th (1 Viewer)

[Phil Iturralde]

Phil

 

[Dave Moritz]

How many Blu-ray titles are using Dolby Digital Plus? And how many Blu-ray Titles are using Dolby True HD?

I see that Dolby is saying we can exspect DD+ on DVD's. Not sure what big improvement that will make for DVD? But since it sould be backward compatible we would basically be listening to basic DD, as that a incorrect assesment? I dont see it being usefull to encode DVD's in DD+ if there are no processors out there besides a HD-A1 for playing them. The only thing I have been noticing is that Blu-ray discs only seem to be using DD & DTS.


http://www.dolby.com/images/products...able_800px.jpg

On the chart Dolby says Dolby Digital Plus can only do 7.1 on HD-DVD & Blu-ray so who are they trying to fool? What information is true, I dont think DD+ can support over 7.1. But I would not be supprised if Dolby True HD could actually support over 8 channels. But even that chart says that Dolby True HD on HD-DVD & Blu-ray is limited at 8 channels. Dolby needs to get there information straight instead of saying two different things on there web site.

I am looking forward to owning the Mission Impossible 3 movie HD-DVD set in October since I only have the second movie on SD-DVD.

 

[James St]

The HD DVD MI boxset is now $55.98 at Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Mission-Imposs...407932?ie=UTF8

 

[Tim Glover]

Not bad at all considering it's usually about 19.95 for each, and add the 10% discount we Amazon HD folks are using and it's a pretty good deal for sure. Is there box art yet James?

 

[TonyD]

yikes.
50.38 shipped

 

[Tim Glover]

That's $16.79 for each movie. So really only about a dollar or so less than buying separately...if buying thru Amazon and their 10% off deal.

 

[Tim Glover]

Glad I locked in to that price of $50.55 with my pre-order. It's back up to $69.99.

 

[Tim Glover]

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Looks like both are truly AWESOME! Can't wait.

 

[TonyD]

why is it 2 discs?

 

[Brent M]

Dammit, I missed the sale price!

 

[Yumbo]

No moire patterns in the Vatican scenes? Wall/stairs.

 

[Greg S]

Bestprices.com has this for $56.99 on their site (the package with all 3 HD films that is). Plus if you use google checkout for this site you will save another $10 on the order. You do have to pay shipping though. My order worked out to be $49 shipped. Best price anywhere on this item.

Thanks to the folks at DVDTALK for this info btw.

Greg

 

[Tim Glover]

I think these newer films like Batman Begins, MI-3 and such and hopefully Superman Returns looking so great on HD-DVD will help the format get off it's feet even more. I know there are some out there waiting for films like these before they get sucked in

 

[Grant H]

I'll definitely pickup MI:3 on HD some day. Glad to hear it looks great on both formats. Odd no DTS on the Blu-Ray (and no PCM either?). They must have really wanted to max the bitrate to ensure it lived up to the HD-DVD version with the advanced compression and entire disc devoted to the feature (2 layer I'm guessing). Hopefully, there won't be any problems with the MPEG4 on the upcoming Blu-Ray titles. At least they're putting out decent product, even if they haven't maximized the potential yet.

I was surprised that I enjoyed MI3 a great deal. I'd say it was the best summer movie (that is when you give Snakes on a Plane its own category). Hopefully, I'll get a good deal on it some time. I have no desire to get the other two. I already have MI:2, which is rarely watched when I want a good laugh at the vanity trip it is and some mindless action, and I didn't much care for the original.

 

[TonyD]

re: the br version, if it's br50 what is the point of all the space if it is 2 discs
and no dts, no pcm and no extra features on the movie disc

i dont get it

 

[Lou Sytsma]

While I enjoyed the movie in the theatre, MI3 does not have the replay factor to justify buying it. Heck, I saw it in the theatre and am not motivated enough to even rent it.

 

[Tim Glover]

Give it a go Lou! Might work better a second time?

 

[Larry Sutliff]

I'm looking forward to this release. My personal favorite is the first one, with the third one not far behind. The second one was kinda blah-I didn't like the score at all-but, being the anal retentive completist, I must have all three.

 

[Tim Glover]

Same here Larry. The first one is still my fave, by far. MI-2 does have some cool moments and fairly hip soundtrack at times...a bit too much kickboxing for me ...MI-3 is much better. Not perfect, but worked even better the second time.

And, according to the review I pasted, looks like MI-3 has one of the best, if not the best image/audio on ANY HD format. That alone is worth a buy for me. If I can buy Sahara (mildly decent film)....

 

[Grant H]

Sadly, I think they pretty much have to use the first disc for the feature since it's MPEG-2 maxed out for the best HD video possible with the codec, at least to ensure it was indistinguishable from the HD-DVD image.

Even if they'd gone with one of the newer codecs, Paramount might have wanted 2-discs as they're saying it's their strategy since 2-disc sets sell better than 1-disc sets (the more is better philosophy of the consumer).

I'm bummed about the lack of dts and PCM too, but I'm guessing they did what they had to to ensure the video was top notch since while using the MPEG-2 crutch. Still, higher bitrate DD is an improvement over DVD DD. But, if I had both players in my rack (and I have NONE:frowning, yeah, I'd definitely pick the HD-DVD disc over the Blu-Ray).

I wonder if HD-DVD could have packed the extras on one disc without any compromises.

If Blu-Ray was firing on all thrusters, that would be the way to promote their disc over the HD-DVD release (Blu-Ray delivers EVERYTHING on one disc!), but who knows if Paramount would even allow it? I'm guessing if the studio says 2-discs, it GETS 2 discs.