Faith restored in Blu-Ray

[mdparthum]

I was not really pleased with the results I was seeing with my new Sony Blu-Ray player. I bought The Patriot, Wyatt Earp, 300, Pirates of the Caribbean II, Pearl Harbor, and Get Smart and I wasn't really happy with the picture quality. It definitely wasn't what I had read! So, I stopped buying the Blu-Rays and returned to DVDs. I bought Ratatouille and Max Payne tonight and I am completely satisfied with the picture quality. Ratatouille was beautiful with suprising clarity and color and Max Payne was even better for all the night time shots. There just might be a future in Blu-Ray if the studios and disc makers make sure that the best quality possible is hittting the market.

[Crashoran]

There is absolutely nothing that can hold a candle to full 1080HD on a hi-def TV. Can I ask what setup you were using and what kind of cables? (component, hdmi, etc) It seems like something went wrong there!

[maskale]

Yeah you need to have a true HD tv and the HDMI will probably help, but dont fall for buying expensive cables. Its a digital signal, either its there or its not.

[crazeazn]

make sure the source (bluray disc) is encoded in the highest rate too.

[Wes]

I have a Panasonic BD35 Blu-Ray player hooked up via HDMI to my 55" Hitachi 720p plasma. The results have always been nothing less than outstanding! Animated movies (i.e., Cars, etc.) look 3D, and the regular movies appear to be beyond HD quality. (Can't wait until they bring out Finding Nemo on Blu-Ray!)

One of the reasons I went with this particular Panasonic is because the reviews have been almost off the chart. Certain Sony and Samsung models, however, have not always gotten the best reviews.

[chamstra]

Not to possible state the obvious, but they Blu-Ray DVD's also have the standard encoding on the other side, so if you put the disk in upside down you will only see an upscaled standard presentation.

[groovyone]

Originally Posted by chamstra

Not to possible state the obvious, but they Blu-Ray DVD's also have the standard encoding on the other side, so if you put the disk in upside down you will only see an upscaled standard presentation.

BDs are NOT double sided.

Some of the HD DVDs were. Most of those had major QC issues.

[groovyone]

Originally Posted by mdparthum

I was not really pleased with the results I was seeing with my new Sony Blu-Ray player. I bought The Patriot, Wyatt Earp, 300, Pirates of the Caribbean II, Pearl Harbor, and Get Smart and I wasn't really happy with the picture quality. It definitely wasn't what I had read! So, I stopped buying the Blu-Rays and returned to DVDs. I bought Ratatouille and Max Payne tonight and I am completely satisfied with the picture quality. Ratatouille was beautiful with suprising clarity and color and Max Payne was even better for all the night time shots. There just might be a future in Blu-Ray if the studios and disc makers make sure that the best quality possible is hittting the market.

What TV are you using and how is your player hooked up? I have over 100 BDs now, not too many recently, but most are amazing with the rest as pretty dang impressive. You also have to consider the movie itself. Many movies, especially from the 80s, were filmed on cheap stuff, so the source is not good to begin with.

If you liked Ratatouille check our Cars and Wall-E too. Casino Royale is still one of my favs, and Iron Man was stunning.

[zeroendless]

I was not really pleased with the results I was seeing with my new Sony Blu-Ray player. I bought The Patriot, Wyatt Earp, 300, Pirates of the Caribbean II, Pearl Harbor, and Get Smart and I wasn't really happy with the picture quality. It definitely wasn't what I had read! So, I stopped buying the Blu-Rays and returned to DVDs. I bought Ratatouille and Max Payne tonight and I am completely satisfied with the picture quality. Ratatouille was beautiful with suprising clarity and color and Max Payne was even better for all the night time shots. There just might be a future in Blu-Ray if the studios and disc makers make sure that the best quality possible is hittting the market.

Micheal, either your setup is completely messed up or you need your eyes checked. I meant it in good way, don't take it wrong, have someone with knowledge in that department double check your equipment.

Not to possible state the obvious, but they Blu-Ray DVD's also have the standard encoding on the other side, so if you put the disk in upside down you will only see an upscaled standard presentation.

No, there's no hybrid Blu-ray/DVD releases currently available in anywhere except Japan. JVC invented one long before HD-DVD were dead but was never adopted by DVD forum. Similar technology were recently used in a japanese TV drama series release, Blu-ray disc with single layer(25GB), dual-layer (8GB) hybrid format but again, never got the seal of approval from DVD-Forum.

[chamstra]

Must not have had enough coffee yet when I replied. Y'all are correct. I was thinking HD, not BD.

Back to the coffee pot! LOL

[mdparthum]

I have a SONY Bravia 46" LCD HD TV and a SONY BDP-S350 Blu-Ray player connected via a HDMI cable. I have the Blu-Ray player set to 1080p output.

Thanks for the input everyone, I think groovyone is right, some movies just look crappy anyway from the original stock film used to shoot them. I will put Casino Royale, Ironman, Wall-E, and Cars on the "to get" list. I think anything shot or created digitally will be a perfect match to the medium.

[srwatters]

Originally Posted by maskale

Yeah you need to have a true HD tv and the HDMI will probably help, but dont fall for buying expensive cables. Its a digital signal, either its there or its not.

The engineer in me agrees with you. I can't believe all the 'audiophiles' that have been beating this bush ever since the early days of DAT and CD. As long as the digital data stream has no errors, the cable "quality" is of no consequence. Of course proper shielding and quality parts will help the error rate go to zero, but unlike analog, the high end cables are a waste IMHO.

Discuss

[Crashoran]

I'm still mad I bought the HD-DVD player addon for the 360 and then a couple months later they discontinued all of it. What a waste of $200.

[groovyone]

Originally Posted by srwatters

The engineer in me agrees with you. I can't believe all the 'audiophiles' that have been beating this bush ever since the early days of DAT and CD. As long as the digital data stream has no errors, the cable "quality" is of no consequence. Of course proper shielding and quality parts will help the error rate go to zero, but unlike analog, the high end cables are a waste IMHO.

Discuss

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