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- Feb 8, 1999
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- Robert Harris
The longest, darkest period in our history is at an end.
After learning that the Panasonic BD player had become available in small quantities, and with an excitement level just short of the release of PS3, I made a trek to Value Electronics in Scarsdale, NY, where Robert Zohn was kind enough to place a unit in my control.
After firing the unit up and making the proper adjustments with its slightly clunky remote control, I was prepared to witness the full vision and dynamism of Blu-Ray.
Using Warner's Space Cowboys as a test disc, as it had an HD compliment, I found myself wowed once again by the beauty, the exhultation, the serenity of High Definition home video.
Space Cowboys remains a fun film, beautifully captured in HD, and now in BD...
but the difference between the two was Huge!
In a side by side test I found that while the HD-DVD was contained in a dark red, or burgundy case, the BD-DVD was contained in ice-blue.
The difference easily detectable.
On screen, to my eye, they look exactly alike.
The bottom line seems to be that for those titles being published in both formats, the difference is in the hardware selected for your system, or the color of your choosing.
Red or Blu?
Same high quality image.
And still the same fun Space Cowboys.
RAH
After learning that the Panasonic BD player had become available in small quantities, and with an excitement level just short of the release of PS3, I made a trek to Value Electronics in Scarsdale, NY, where Robert Zohn was kind enough to place a unit in my control.
After firing the unit up and making the proper adjustments with its slightly clunky remote control, I was prepared to witness the full vision and dynamism of Blu-Ray.
Using Warner's Space Cowboys as a test disc, as it had an HD compliment, I found myself wowed once again by the beauty, the exhultation, the serenity of High Definition home video.
Space Cowboys remains a fun film, beautifully captured in HD, and now in BD...
but the difference between the two was Huge!
In a side by side test I found that while the HD-DVD was contained in a dark red, or burgundy case, the BD-DVD was contained in ice-blue.
The difference easily detectable.
On screen, to my eye, they look exactly alike.
The bottom line seems to be that for those titles being published in both formats, the difference is in the hardware selected for your system, or the color of your choosing.
Red or Blu?
Same high quality image.
And still the same fun Space Cowboys.
RAH
I like it.
