Blu-Ray Top Ten Wishlist

Michael Anthony Horrigan said:
Agreed. Some look fantastic! :beer:
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That is what is so annoying when films like Kingdom of Heaven: Director's Cut get released on Blu without all the extensive extras that the DVD version has. I watched Gladiator on DVD recently and it looked so good that unless they release a new special edition on Blu-ray there is not much reason to spend 25 to 30 bucks for it on Blu.

Personally, when the choice is between an impressive BTS feature package + nearly HD upscaled quality vs. only an HD picture quality, as someone who likes to learn everything possible from DVD commentaries and extras I'd just rather get the SD DVD in this case.
 
I would say, not necessarily in this order:

- American Beauty
- Jurassic Park
- Road To Perdition
- Contact
- Aliens
- Sin City
- Into The Wild
- Lord of the Rings (cause I've never seen them)
- Back to the Future
- Lawrence of Arabia (cause I hear it looks awesome)

Still looking forward to seeing The Matrix series, especially the Animatrix on Bluray.
 
My top ten BD wishlist looks something like this:

1) Lord of the Rings
2) Jurassic Park
3) Star Wars original trilogy
4) Aliens
5) Barry Lyndon
6) Alien
7) Heat
8) Apocalypse Now!
9) Collateral
10) Jaws
 
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Michael Anthony Horrigan said:
One of the reasons I loved the HD-DVD format. Most of my HD DVD's can be played on my Xbox HD DVD player or on another player in SD. Which still looks great when upscaled to 1080p.

I have Blu-ray as well. Wish Blu-ray discs had that dual option for other rooms in the house. :(
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Well I have the PS3. Now is it a matter of a firmware update so it can be a dual Blu-ray/HD-DVD player? I know they make High Definition players that play both Blu-Ray/HD-DVD.
 
I was all ready to get a PSIII as a blu-ray player, until I learned that it can't do progressive and doesn't really offer the best possible signal for a screen like our Samsung.
 
Sad Max said:
I was all ready to get a PSIII as a blu-ray player, until I learned that it can't do progressive and doesn't really offer the best possible signal for a screen like our Samsung.
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What are you talking about? The PS3 can do both 1080p and 1080/24p.

I'm more than happy with BD-playback on my 50" Pioneer Kuro Pro Signature monitor.
 
Sorry, I'm already forgetting what the specs were; there was some functionality offered in the Samsungs that was unavailable in the PSIII. If you're actually interested, I'll have another look at my search notes.
 
It does sound a bit strange to me. What Samsung model do you own?

If this was some time ago it might have been 1080/24p that was lacking on the PS3, as this was first featured after a firmware in mid-2007.
 
From PC Week's "Burning Questions: PS3 -- The Blu-Ray Movie Experience"

Though my first impressions of the PlayStation 3's Blu-ray video playback quality were positive, videophiles should take note: The PS3 has two technical limitations that set it apart from stand-alone Blu-ray players. First, unlike stand-alone Blu-ray players, the PS3 does not have a dedicated video chip set optimized for decoding Blu-ray video, instead relying on the Cell processor and its software to do the job. This may turn out to be a plus, however, as Sony's improvements to the player software can be more easily distributed to existing users than a hardware upgrade.

Second, the PS3 offers 1080p60 (where the 60 refers to frames per second) playback, which is less optimal than 1080p24 for filmed content. Few displays support 1080p24 output today, but if your HD set and your BD player do so, you should see higher-quality images than you'd get from 1080p60 output. Since movies are filmed at 24 frames per second, you'd want to use an even multiple of 24 (such as 72 frames per second) to avoid motion artifacts in slow-panning scenes. If you display 24-fps content at an uneven multiple, like the commonly used 60 fps, you'll end up with those artifacts.

The Samsung display is a HL67A750 LEP DLP.
 
Yeah, as I thought, it was before the PS3 offered 1080/24p - which is does now, perfectly.
 
kyrre said:
What are you talking about? The PS3 can do both 1080p and 1080/24p.

I'm more than happy with BD-playback on my 50" Pioneer Kuro Pro Signature monitor.
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I wonder how many years it's going to take for them to offer 2k & 4K resolution TV/DVD's.
 
Sad Max said:
Okay.

Fortunately I got the BDP-1500 for a bit under half list price, so at least there's still something to feel good about.
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Of course!

The PS3 is a lot of bang for you buck, but your BD-1500 is probably better in overall picture quality though. :thumbsup:

El Gato Negro said:
I wonder how many years it's going to take for them to offer 2k & 4K resolution TV/DVD's.
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Well, I think it will be difficult with plasma-technology, given how far apart the pixels are on the panel, compared to LCD, OLED etc.
 
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Nektonic said:
That is what is so annoying when films like Kingdom of Heaven: Director's Cut get released on Blu without all the extensive extras that the DVD version has. I watched Gladiator on DVD recently and it looked so good that unless they release a new special edition on Blu-ray there is not much reason to spend 25 to 30 bucks for it on Blu.

Personally, when the choice is between an impressive BTS feature package + nearly HD upscaled quality vs. only an HD picture quality, as someone who likes to learn everything possible from DVD commentaries and extras I'd just rather get the SD DVD in this case.
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Same here. Really disappointed that Kingdom of Heaven had no featurettes. The film looks gorgeous on 1080 but that isn't enough. The industry needs to change their strategy. We as consumers are spending a lot of money. It's almost like you have to have both versions of any film, DVD & Blu-ray just to get all of the extras that are no included on Blu-ray.

I was even disappointed on the extras for The Dark Knight on blu-ray. So far the only movie that went the extra mile was The Matrix Ultimate Collection on Blu-ray.
 
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