Blu-Rays to show off your tv's greatness?

[TonyHetherington]

Interesting to read about old films and their transition onto new media. I'm even more looking forward to my new tv, now!

[russ_a]

not all old movies transfer well, I brought Close Encounters and it's rubbish quality.

[4hero]

The Fall, if anything was needed to sell blu-ray this is it in my opinion.

Edited by 4hero on Saturday 8th August 01:06

[derestrictor]

russ_a said:

not all old movies transfer well, I brought Close Encounters and it's rubbish quality.

It's not the best, admittedly but grain infestations per se may not render a red card... I have to say, when I watched it (several times, consecutively ) it seemed perty dang hokay...

Monitors (and their selection, installation and set-up) have much to answer for...

[funkyol]

Iron Man - when he gets in the new Red and Gold suit
Transformers - when Optimus Prime first transforms from truck to robot
I am Legend - when he's hitting golfballs off of the Aircraft carrier
Cloverfield - all of it

[NotNormal]

Dark night as already mentioned is awesome, but for me BBC's Planet Earth series is the best I have in my collection for showing off blue ray and a very decent TV set-up. Regardless of the content I find the images simply breath taking indeed and friends and family certainly agree

[TonyHetherington]

I really enjoy planet earth as a series anyway, actually, and so I can't wait to get it on the new screen in full resolution beautifulness

[derestrictor]

So wierd the way picture quality is subjectively resolved: I watched a nifty little sci-fi filum (The Thirteenth Floor) last night - boggo DVD - and there were moments where it was on the brink of Blu-ray dom...

[TonyHetherington]

Is that your DVD player doing the funky business there, I take it?

[Asterix]

NotNormal said:

Dark night as already mentioned is awesome, but for me BBC's Planet Earth series is the best I have in my collection for showing off blue ray and a very decent TV set-up. Regardless of the content I find the images simply breath taking indeed and friends and family certainly agree

I had a look at the BluRay version of that and it said on the box that it runs at a max of 1080i - not 1080p.

How does that work? I thought only 1080p was 'true' HD

[derestrictor]

TonyHetherington said:

Is that your DVD player doing the funky business there, I take it?

No, m'lud it be the TV's own scaler taking the native 576i and doing it's thang!

[LeoSayer]

russ_a said:

not all old movies transfer well, I brought Close Encounters and it's rubbish quality.

I saw that in HD through my Sky HD box recently and I was blown away by the picture quality considering it's a 30 year old film.

[funkyol]

derestrictor said:

So wierd the way picture quality is subjectively resolved: I watched a nifty little sci-fi filum (The Thirteenth Floor) last night - boggo DVD - and there were moments where it was on the brink of Blu-ray dom...

My PS3 is my Blu-ray drive. The upscaling is nothing short of awesome. It really has transformed my collection!

[TonyHetherington]

derestrictor said:

TonyHetherington said:

Is that your DVD player doing the funky business there, I take it?

No, m'lud it be the TV's own scaler taking the native 576i and doing it's thang!

Ah, ok - good stuff, hopefully the forthcoming Pan G10 will be similarly capable (naturally, buying from your good self).

[NotNormal]

Asterix said:

NotNormal said:

Dark night as already mentioned is awesome, but for me BBC's Planet Earth series is the best I have in my collection for showing off blue ray and a very decent TV set-up. Regardless of the content I find the images simply breath taking indeed and friends and family certainly agree

I had a look at the BluRay version of that and it said on the box that it runs at a max of 1080i - not 1080p.

How does that work? I thought only 1080p was 'true' HD

All explained on the following link but needless to say its 1080p

http://www.avforums.com/forums/blu-ray-movies-tv-p...

[gadget69]

Monster Inc (Best Yet)
House of Flying Daggers
Dark Knight
Taken

[strudel]

Just ordered Baracka. Apparently it's downscaled from 8k resolution so should look as superb, and the number of 5 star reviews on amazon is impressive! I'd never even heard of it before.

Bought TopGun as well. It had to be done

[derestrictor]

strudel said:

Just ordered Baracka. Apparently it's downscaled from 8k resolution so should look as superb, and the number of 5 star reviews on amazon is impressive! I'd never even heard of it before.

Bought TopGun as well. It had to be done

The first item is pretentious drivel but the finest manifestation of non CGI resolution witnessed by man - you will collapse in it's prescence.

Top Gun is a great example of restoring former glories which from regular tv airings you might not assume to be that great an original.

[fivesixseven8]

strudel said:

Bought TopGun as well. It had to be done

Just ordered a copy myself! Less than a tenner from amazon so I couldn't refuse.

[crmcatee]

Sorry to hijack your thread Tony but I'm in the market shortly for a new gogglebox for the study.

Is the ethernet port on the back of the G10 usable to stream ?