LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA - 5/22/07 - Japanese 5.1 MLP (1 Viewer)

[Chris S]

That cover is so nice it makes me wish the cases came in straight solid black.

 

[Tim Glover]

You're dead right Chris. That's my only real complaint so far with HD media is the cases. Most of the time it seems the Maroon color appears to blend in more but yeah, black would be awesome here.

 

[EricW]

movies that don't have big stars in them will usually have nicer posters

 

[Dan Hitchman]

The Blu-ray gets PCM, the HD-DVD gets TrueHD. Coming from WB they'll both be 16 bit. The Blu-ray version could easily hold the full 24 bit master, but nooooo. WB and great sound... they don't seem to go together.

Dan

 

[ScottJH]

Looks like the Blu-Ray will be getting TrueHD and not PCM.
http://dvd.themanroom.com/dvd-cover.php?did=3816

 

[Robert Crawford]

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=64519

 

[Eric F]

Makes no nevermind to me, I'll take TrueHD on the BD version because I have a PS3 so I'm set.

Sounds like they are just slapping an identical encode and putting it on a BD (as usual). At least it's on a BD50 instead of a BD25 this time.

 

[Jason Seaver]

Doesn't that probably just mean that the files were 26MB instead of 24MB?

 

[Eric F]

Sheer conjecture here, but it could be Warner is starting to use BD50s more becuase piracy is becoming more of an issue.

Now if we could only convince them to actually take advantage of the full BD50...

 

[Shane Martin]

But totally screws over the standalone folks. :frowning:

 

[Eric F]

Then really push your manufacturers for firmware updates. TrueHD is going to become more common, as Sony is going to start using it more often on their own titles as well.

 

[Tim Glover]

Kind of a tough move for Warner. While I certainly applaud their decision to finally give BD the same audio treatment, this does alienate the standalone owners for Blu-ray. I suppose they took the least amount of casualties as the PS3 seems to be what most BD owners have?

 

[Robert Crawford]

IMO, it's the right move even with me being a Samsung owner. I suspect that I will have a new BR player within a year that will allow me to listen to that codec properly.

 

[Shane Martin]

Since they aren't using the full disc, why not include a PCM track too?

 

[Chris S]

The Panasonic player just received a firmware update that allows for TrueHD and DTS-HD decoding, so it's not all standalone player. Just most of them.