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Topic: When is blu ray not blu ray?
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Christopher P Quinn
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 210
From: Bedfordshire
Registered: Sep 2008
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posted May 03, 2009 01:20 PM
A blue-ray is a blu-ray, the problem is with the transfer, and it is the same with DVDs. The quality of the transfer and/or the source material makes all the difference. For instance the film The Searchers, released on blu-ray is a good benchmark for an excellent transfer. This blu-ray really shows what can be done with an old film, it is out standing. Another blu-ray on animation is of course Pinocchio, and a thread is running at the moment on this blu-ray/DVD. I watched The Cowboys last week and was slightly disappointed when the film started; it cleaned up after the first 6-7 minutes, but was a little inconsistent through out, although still way better than the DVD version.
DVD’s I believe have still got a market, until blu-rays and players come down to the same price. I like to buy classic TV sitcoms on DVD, none that I want are yet on blu-ray, and some will never be for technical reasons, such as Hancock Half Hour.
Another thing is LCD TVs do not give a very good results even with up scaled DVD’s, but put a blu-ray on after an up scaled DVD and the difference is phenomenal! With DVD projected the hardware in a projector can cope better, and can produce a far superior picture for DVD, I won’t pretend to know why, because I don’t. Anyway, with the fast majority of people watching films at home on LCD TV’s it will become more apparent that blu-ray gives them a better picture.
My biggest moan about blu-ray is that I can’t buy what I always want. I pre ordered Dean Spanley on DVD as not available to pre order on blu-ray, and this is a new film!
The other thing is not being able to region free my player. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Yes blu-rays are good, some are fantastic, but not all blu-rays are on older films. To see a top transfer I do highly recommend The Searchers, you won’t be disappointed.
Andrew, The main difference between 1080i and 1080P is in motion blurring, 1080P is better, but I agree, not massively, but this can depend on your equipment as well. There is a new 200 HZ TV on the market that should make things a lot better.
Mark, The L&H set were restored, but being so old they still retain the look of film running, scratches, dirt, flicker, gate movement. It’s great when watching these classics. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Chris.
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Chris Quinn Rides again.
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Mark Todd
Film God
Posts: 3846
From: UK
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted May 03, 2009 02:21 PM
I didn`t know that about the L+D dvds Chris, they have obviously not over done it then, Funny they should use the colourised versions done in the early 80,s in that sense as they are very poor, the odd one re-done more recently in the set looks far better, considering how much better they could have been tackled now, why use those ???
Saying that my nippers prefer them projected in B+W but they may have picked up a bit on my wittering on that front !!!!
I think oddly LCD projectors show even DVD,s better than LCD TV,s. many look better far bigger on an LCD VP even than a CRT TV as the VP seems to clean them up somehow.
I`m surprised you havent gone VP Andy as ones that will cope with HD are now very affordable considering you were such a big cine projection fan.
Best Mark.
[ May 03, 2009, 06:12 PM: Message edited by: Mark Todd ]
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