Last HD Movie Watched

[Derb]

AC/DC: Live at Donington (1991) (Blu-Ray)

HD Video - 7/10
HD Audio Dolby Digital - 9/10
HD Audio LPCM - 10/10

[ganthc]

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

HD Video: 9/10
HD Audio: 9/10

This transfer looked great. The beginning was grainy and didn't look that great, but that was the part where Harry gets dropped on the doorstep of the Dursleys. The rest of the movie was pretty clean, and the PCM track really helped out matters. Warner did a great job here.

[bembol]

The Simpson's Movie & The Bourne Ultimatum (UK)



Both Video & Audio 10's

[Derb]

A Mighty Heart (2007) (HD DVD)

HD Video - 9/10
HD Audio Dolby Digital Plus - 9/10
HD Audio Dolby TrueHD - 9/10

Carlito's Way: Rise to Power (2005) (HD DVD)

HD Video - 7/10
HD Audio Dolby Digital Plus - 8/10
HD Audio Dolby TrueHD - 8/10

[plissken99]

Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix (Blu Ray)

Video: 10/10
Audio: 10/10

[Ruined]

Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise (HD DVD)

Video Source Quality: C (quality varies scene to scene, print damage abound; still, good detail and colors)
Overall Video Quality: B- (no compression artifacts noted, but source needs restoration)
Overall Audio Quality: B+ (Excellent Japanese TrueHD5.1 soundtrack and fair english DD+ 640k dub)

Recommended, but only if you get it HIGHLY discounted like I did. ($47 shipped)

[plissken99]

The Simpsons Movie (Blu Ray)

Video: 10/10
Audio: 8/10

Indeed whats to complain about, as the source goes, it's perfectly rendered, and a great movie to boot! I felt the bass was a bit inadequate, but otherwise it sounded good.

[Derb]

Inside Man (2006) (HD DVD)

HD Video - 9/10
HD Audio Dolby Digital Plus - 9/10
HD Audio Dolby TrueHD - 9/10

The Polar Express (2004) (Blu-Ray)

HD Video - 10/10
HD Audio Dolby Digital - 9/10

[sub780lime]

The Departed

[jriseden]

Friday Night Lights
Carlitos Way: Rise to Power

FNL looked really good most of the time and Carlito just looked okay, good for a dtv movie, but no real beautiful visuals to really make it stand out.

[bembol]

Rush Hour 3 (Rent)



A/V: 9/10

The Kingdom
(Blind Buy)


Video: 10/10
Audio: 9/10 (Dolby Digital Plus)

[SilentBob]

Bourne Ultimatum HD-DVD

VIDEO: 10/10
AUDIO(TrueHD): 10/10

The series keeps getting better as it goes. Very well done and so was the overall disc quality. I gave both a/v 10's because i found nothing really wrong with the transfers from what i remember seeing with my work prints of the film )although i might of noticed a slight banding issue around 1hr41min mark on the disc but only a split sec) Still and awesome movie, good picture quality and audio too boot, Go buy this now.

[Derb]

King of New York (1990) (Blu-Ray)

HD Video - 8/10
HD Audio Dolby Digital - 7/10
HD Audio dts - 8/10

[plissken99]

The Bourne Identity (HD-DVD)

Video: 8/10
Audio: 9/10

Well I finally got around to watching this(glad I waited for the RS1), PQ is a far cry from the perfection that is Ultimatum, but good none the less. Nothing to complain about in the audio dept.

[Derb]

Motorhead: Stage Fright (2004) (HD DVD)

HD Video - 9/10
HD Audio dts - 10/10

[Ruined]

Originally Posted by Derb

Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same (1976) (Blu-Ray)

HD Video - 8/10
HD Audio Dolby Digital - 8/10
HD Audio Dolby TrueHD - 9/10

The Dolby TrueHD is unfortunately not reference or even a perfect 10 because there are a few audio dropouts. These dropouts do not happen while listening to the Dolby Digital track. Here are the time codes if you want to check them out when the title is re-released,

1h 40m 45s > 1h 40m 52s (7 seconds) - Drum solo
No sound, bitrate jumps from 2+Mbps to 850Kbps

1h 41m 45s (1 second) - Drum solo
No sound, bitrate jumps from 2+Mbps to 850Kbps

FYI, I checked these timecodes on the TrueHD track of the Led Zepplin HD DVD release and the audio was fine, no dropouts at all.

[Derb]

Originally Posted by Ruined

FYI, I checked these timecodes on the TrueHD track of the Led Zepplin HD DVD release and the audio was fine, no dropouts at all.

Thats odd cause you'd think the bitrate would be identical unless there are 2 separate audio encodes done for this title. Thanks for checking it out.

[Ruined]

Originally Posted by Derb

Thats odd cause you'd think the bitrate would be identical unless there are 2 separate audio encodes done for this title. Thanks for checking it out.

AFAIK they need to be two seperate audio encodes due to the way the nextgen codecs are handled on each format. Since TrueHD decoding is only optional in the Blu-Ray spec, Blu-Ray TrueHD tracks need to be encoded with a core DD track (much like how DTS-HDMA operates on both formats). On HD DVD, TrueHD does not have the core track since TrueHD decoding is a mandatory part of the spec.

[Derb]

Originally Posted by Ruined

AFAIK they need to be two seperate audio encodes due to the way the nextgen codecs are handled on each format. Since TrueHD decoding is only optional in the Blu-Ray spec, Blu-Ray TrueHD tracks need to be encoded with a core DD track (much like how DTS-HDMA operates on both formats). On HD DVD, TrueHD does not have the core track since TrueHD decoding is a mandatory part of the spec.

Didn't know there was a core to TrueHD tracks period. Thanks for that info. Your saying HD DVD does not require the second encode so it is just 1 track unlike Blu-Ray which requires TrueHD tracks to have 2 separate encodes (Core & Extraction) THAN maybe, thats the reason/problem with Zeppelin played back on the PS3. Hmm.. It be nice if Toshiba could offer a display firmware to see if in fact the bitrate on the HD DVD drops at all from 2+mbps to 850k

[Ruined]

Originally Posted by Derb

Didn't know there was a core to TrueHD tracks period. Thanks for that info. Your saying HD DVD does not require the second encode so it is just 1 track unlike Blu-Ray which requires TrueHD tracks to have 2 separate encodes (Core & Extraction) THAN maybe, thats the reason/problem with Zeppelin played back on the PS3. Hmm.. It be nice if Toshiba could offer a display firmware to see if in fact the bitrate on the HD DVD drops at all from 2+mbps to 850k

Have you considered you might have a bad disc and your player is experiencing a read error? And yes, from what I've read of the specs HD DVD has just plain TrueHD tracks w/ mandatory decoding while BD has TrueHD+DD Core w/ optional decoding somewhat similar to DTS-HDMA.

[Derb]

Originally Posted by Ruined

Have you considered you might have a bad disc and your player is experiencing a read error?

Bad disc maybe. Warner's real reason for recall? Dunno. If it happened during the middle of a song I'd be more pissed but sinse the drummer shuts up for a few seconds, its ok.

A Clockwork Orange (1971) (Blu-Ray)

HD Video - 9/10
HD Audio Dolby Digital - 7/10
HD Audio LPCM - 8/10

[plissken99]

Rush Hour 3 (Blu Ray)

Video: 10/10
Audio: 10/10

Well Newline has certainly entered the game with a top tier title! Visually and audibly there is nothing to complain about here, on the RS1 the entire film is like 3-D butta! As for the movie, I feel it's as good as the first two, which is to say little brains, as little acting, but tons of cheap laughs and mindless kickass action!

[buckster666]

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Video: 9/10
Audio: 8/10

Great film, very funny, shame about lack of extras though.

The Fugitive

Video: 7/10
Audio: 8/10

Typical 90's movie, Transfer wasn't amazing, but this is the best i've every seen this film.

[SilentBob]

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix HD-DVD

VIDEO: 10/10
AUDIO(TrueHD): 10/10


Great disc for both audio and video. The audio i am so close to giving a Reference label but i found that the opening centre channel was a bit quiet on the voices. Usually keep my Onkyo 605 at about 52-54 on the volume setting but found myself turning it up to 60 for this track. Still great use of all channels and some great Bass to be heard/felt (wand fight sequence) The video too was great with some great 3D pop scenes, but again something holds me back from labeling it Reference quality.

[SilentBob]

THE SIMPSONS MOVIE Blu-ray

VIDEO: Reference
AUDIO(DTS-HD Core): 8.5/10


Ok i gave Ratatouille a Reference rating for video and the same goes for this. Two different animation styles but i couldn't see anything wrong here. Hopefully i will be seeing more 2D movies in such great condition as this one in the near future.

[dugpa]

Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1 (hd-dvd)
HD Video - 6/10
HD Audio TrueHD 5.1 - 7/10

Oh Paramount, how could you? Bad enough one has to all but take out a small loan to pay the high price for these discs, but the compression on the episodes themselves is horrible. It's not as bad on the new effects shots, though still present. But when the grain of the original film hits, watch the artifacts fly. And before someone goes off about how this is an example of hd-dvd not having enough space vs blu-ray, I'm firmly convinced the problem is just downright sloppy encoding, not space. I have Smallville seaon 5 on hd-dvd, which has more episodes per disc, and it doesn't have this bad a compression problems. No, this is a case of Paramount just doing a quick encode and not bothering to tweak the settings in places. For as much as they ask us to pay, I expect better. Now, that all said, this is still the best I've seen the original series look. As badly compressed as it is, color is vibrant and the episodes are pretty clean. So not a total wash. The audio really isn't that impressive, but I didn't expect much from 40 year old low budget tv sound.

We Were Soldiers (blu-ray)
HD Video - 8/10
HD Audio DTS 5.1 - 9/10

A fairly solid transfer, especially for mpeg2. Even better yet, very nice sound design. Better film than I expected it to be.

Girls Gone Wild: Sexiest Moments Ever 2 (blu-ray)
HD Video - 7/10
HD Audio DD 5.1 - 5/10

I can tell this was shot using one of those cheap HDV prosumer cameras. Which was confirmed in a shot where they have a second camera which shows the first. Yep, Sony HDV it is. Some brief shots on this disc are clearly upconverted SD, though they are surprisingly few. The HD stuff actually looks pretty good for cheaper HD. It's a bit soft, but the compression isn't nearly as bad as I expected. So for softcore porn for the price, I guess it's probably not a bad disc. The audio is kind of hard to rate since it's pretty much audio from the camera. Certainly no surrounds that I heard.

[plissken99]

Timecop (HD-DVD)

Video: 8.5/10
Audio: 8.5/10

Ah Vandamme kicking high in glourious full 1080p! The transfer is about what I expected from a catalog release. Being that the R1 DVD was foolscreen, this is a world of improvement. Detail is always good, but many scenes have a layer of grain that kills the 3-D effect. Also an annoying thing that happened to a few action movies of the early 90's, fleshtones have a red bias in dark scenes(see Die Hard 2, and actually Sudden Death). Audio is quite good for the most part, but like so many old action movies, they neglect the LFE in gunshots and explosions, the only time the sub is heard from are the time travel bits. Good overall though, considering the foolscreen SD-DVD, this ones a no brainer.