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  1. Phil Menard

    House of Fury from Tai Seng

    I picked up this entertaining Stephen Fung film (produced by Jackie Chan) on Blu-ray this weekend. Due to this being a Tai Seng release, I was quite worried about the transfer. Tai Seng is very hit-or-miss quality wise on dvd, usually giving a flat looking, letterboxed picture. That's why I'm...
  2. Phil Menard

    Question about the HD-DVD lead-in promo

    This question is for anyone else who has a calibrated HD TV or projector. Does the HD-DVD promo look different on the Universal than it does on the Warner Brothers releases? I was noticing that on Universal disks the promo is less sharp, and that dark areas are much darker and have less detail...
  3. Phil Menard

    Stupid questions *Now in HD!*

    I'm neither a noob or an expert (at anything), but I had some *general questions about HD disk formats. 1. How large will a movie file (w/or/wo soundtracks) be when encoded in either of the High-Def encoding formats (Mpeg or vc1)? I realize that there will be a lot of factors that will have...
  4. Phil Menard

    dts & subtitles: too much for my player?

    Subtitles tend to linger only briefly (and sometimes only flash or don't show) when utilizing the dts track for audio. I don't notice the same thing happening with Dolby tracks. It does not happen with all dvds. Is there anyone else who has this problem? Is it the encoding on the dvd? Or perhaps...
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