Close Encounters of the Third Kind - November 13th (1 Viewer)

[DeeF]

I just watched my newly purchased BD of Close Encounters tonight.

The film is superb, but I sure had problems with the disk, many scenes out of sync, sound dropouts, etc.

I'm using the new Pioneer player, which may have some kinks. But I also tried it in my older Samsung player, and I noticed many of the same problems.

 

[Felix Martinez]

No probs with the Panny BD-30. I saw it last November with the orig firmware of the Panny (1.2?), and again during the summer with the latest firmware at the time (1.8).

 

[Sam Favate]

Just for kicks, I decided to do an A-B comparison with the BD and DVD last night, and the difference is pretty remarkable. The colors, sharpness and detail in the BD is much better than the DVD, which I thought was pretty good all these years. I know there were some who thought there was too much grain in this BD, but I invite those folks to do an A-B with the DVD if possible.

Sorry for the bump of this old thread. I just kind of decided on a whim to do this yesterday.

 

[Heinz W]

No worries Sam, I'm glad you bumped this thread. Despite having had a BD player for six months now I somehow missed CETK. Just rectified that this morning and am looking forward to seeing this great movie in HD when it arrives.

 

[James L White]

it's well worth your money

one of the must own titles

 

[Sam Davatchi]

Man, I thought a new edition is coming out!

Edited by Sam Davatchi - 7/2/2009 at 12:35 am GMT

 

[Brian Borst]

Originally Posted by Sam Favate

Just for kicks, I decided to do an A-B comparison with the BD and DVD last night, and the difference is pretty remarkable. The colors, sharpness and detail in the BD is much better than the DVD, which I thought was pretty good all these years. I know there were some who thought there was too much grain in this BD, but I invite those folks to do an A-B with the DVD if possible.

Sorry for the bump of this old thread. I just kind of decided on a whim to do this yesterday.

I agree. This is the third time I bought this title (and to think I didn't even like the film when I first saw it on television) and it's easily the most impressive version. It especially shines with the special effects, I think. In the first version the replaced skies were really noticeable, and a bit jarring as well. In the Ultimate dvd version they already looked much better, and in the Blu-Ray, they look really good. I'm also glad to lose the big VHS-like packaging of the dvd, and get a standard Blu-ray case instead. The only problem I have with it is that some of the subwoofer scenes are a bit too much for the neighbours .

 

[Heinz W]

My copy arrived a few days ago and I watched the Director's Cut Thursday night. This is by far the best this movie has ever looked at home. It was better than I thought it would be, or could be. Fantastic!

It seems that films that have a lot of night scenes, like CETK, benefit the most from the clarity and stability of the Blu-ray image. I at least tend to notice the difference between Blu and DVD more in night scenes.