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post #1 of 65
6/14/08 at 11:12pm
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No revisionist nonsense on this BD release. PQ is excellent. Nothing to complain about. Especially if you know the look and style chosen by the film makers. The larger the viewing screen the better chance you will feel quesy because of the shaky camera. A lot like the Bourne movies

AQ is superb. Reference quality. 'Nuff said.

It deserves your well earned $19.99

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Title                                                           Codec   Length  Movie Size      Disc Size       Bitrate Bitrate Main Audio Track                          Secondary Audio Track
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Cloverfield                                                     VC-1    1:24:40 24,852,836,352  42,219,444,202  39.13   30.42   Dolby TrueHD 5.1 5185Kbps (48kHz/24-bit)  


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Size:           24,852,836,352 bytes
Length:         1:24:40 (h:m:s)
Total Bitrate:  39.13 Mbps
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Name            Size            Length          Time In         Time Out        
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00000.M2TS      24,852,836,352  1:24:40         0:00:00         1:24:40         

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Codec               Bitrate         Description     
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VC-1 Video          30421 kbps      1080p / 23.976fps

AUDIO:

Codec                           Language        Bitrate         Description     
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Dolby TrueHD Audio              English         5185 kbps       5.1 / 48kHz / 24-bit (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps)
Dolby Digital Audio             French          640 kbps        5.1 / 48kHz     
Dolby Digital Audio             Spanish         640 kbps        5.1 / 48kHz     
Dolby Digital Audio             English         192 kbps        2.0 / 48kHz
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post #2 of 65
6/14/08 at 11:12pm
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post #3 of 65
6/14/08 at 11:13pm
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post #4 of 65
6/14/08 at 11:16pm
It puts the pictures in this thread or it gets the hose again.
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post #5 of 65
6/15/08 at 12:33am
I havnt seen this movie before so im not 100 percent sure, but isnt part of the movie supposed to look like its shot on a handycam? if so, could we get some screenies from the parts that dont? thanks
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post #6 of 65
6/15/08 at 12:38am
Xylon,

As usual thanks for the caps and posting the disc stats.
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post #7 of 65
6/15/08 at 1:06am
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I havnt seen this movie before so im not 100 percent sure, but isnt part of the movie supposed to look like its shot on a handycam? if so, could we get some screenies from the parts that dont? thanks

That's the whole movie. The screen caps don't show the improvement that most films do because of the way it's shot. The real comparison is with the audio
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post #8 of 65
6/15/08 at 4:36am
There's not going to be a lot of shots that have a ton of detail in them because of the motion blur and plus the image was somewhat degraded for effect (ie noise). There is 1080p detail in certain shots though. How about comparisons of these (taken from online trailers):





It's interesting to note that the teaser is cropped to 2.35:1. Most likely so it could play full screen when it was attached to Transformers.
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post #9 of 65
6/15/08 at 5:47am
Xylons first image the difference is pretty much easy to spot and the Blu Rays looks far better, that second shot mind you is not that easy to spot the difference, its better, but looks like the transfers up and down if them are to go by I still have not got the disc, but hopefully there are more shots like the first picture than that second one.
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post #10 of 65
6/15/08 at 6:11am
Rcvd the BD yesterday, watched it last night(first watched it at the theater). The PQ and AQ of this movie(both are superb) just cements my thinking of not needing to go to the theater anymore.
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post #11 of 65
6/15/08 at 7:02am
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This girl is SMOKIN hot! Never seen her in a movie before...hopefully she gets more work onscreen.
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post #12 of 65
6/15/08 at 12:11pm
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This girl is SMOKIN hot! Never seen her in a movie before...hopefully she gets more work onscreen.


I was just thinking the same thing.
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post #13 of 65
6/15/08 at 1:09pm
She was on CSI for a few episodes, until her character just vanished. She added some much appreciated eye candy to that show.

It would have been funny if HUD had kept focusing on her rack throughout the movie, I know I would have.
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post #14 of 65
6/15/08 at 1:55pm
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She was on CSI for a few episodes, until her character just vanished. She added some much appreciated eye candy to that show.

It would have been funny if HUD had kept focusing on her rack throughout the movie, I know I would have.


He, Hud gets some leg action shots later on in the movie.
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post #15 of 65
6/15/08 at 2:51pm
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Xylons first image the difference is pretty much easy to spot and the Blu Rays looks far better, that second shot mind you is not that easy to spot the difference, its better, but looks like the transfers up and down if them are to go by I still have not got the disc, but hopefully there are more shots like the first picture than that second one.

I don't think it's so much the transfer as it was how it was shot. They used around 4 different cameras for the entire film. A lot of the interior apartment scenes were shot with the Panasonic HVX200 HD video camera, which produces a nice picture but isn't all that great for low-light situations.

That second shot that Xylon posted looks like it was from the HVX200. I've edited a lot of HD footage from that camera and it has that look in low-light environments. What looks like a bad compression job is actually the fault of the HVX200's compression scheme (it shoots to P2 cards).

I'd still say that the apartment scenes look nice given that it was shot on HD video. I can't remember when the higher quality cameras were used, but the nighttime exteriors were certainly not shot with the HVX200.

By the way, great movie and sound mix!

-Brad
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post #16 of 65
6/15/08 at 11:01pm
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It's interesting to note that the teaser is cropped to 2.35:1. Most likely so it could play full screen when it was attached to Transformers.


Paramount and Fox do this a lot for their movie trailers. The only one i have seen Paramount not alter for the screen is Indiana Jones and Kung Fu Panda. They have been doing this for several years now and i wish sometimes they wouldn't tease me with what the movie could of been like in Scope (War of the Worlds) Got tons of Film trailers at home that show this.
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post #17 of 65
6/16/08 at 6:12am
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post #18 of 65
6/16/08 at 8:04am
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This girl is SMOKIN hot! Never seen her in a movie before...hopefully she gets more work onscreen.

Her name is Jessica Lucas and she was also in the movies Amusement, The Covenant and She's the Man.
Jessica Lucas
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post #19 of 65
6/16/08 at 9:24am
What camera was this shot with?
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post #20 of 65
6/16/08 at 11:26am
It was shot on various cameras. Here's the list according to IMDB:

Panasonic AG-HSC1U
Panasonic AG-HVX200
Sony CineAlta F23
Thomson VIPER FilmStream Camera

-Brad
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post #21 of 65
6/16/08 at 1:36pm
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post #22 of 65
6/16/08 at 1:49pm
Pretty obvious improvement on the BRD in that last shot. Just compare the scattering of rocks.
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post #23 of 65
6/16/08 at 3:39pm
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This one pisses me off because she was supposed to be the "Hottie", the other chick is way hotter. This one seriously need to seek help for her eating disorder!
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post #24 of 65
6/16/08 at 5:30pm
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This one pisses me off because she was supposed to be the "Hottie", the other chick is way hotter. This one seriously need to seek help for her eating disorder!

Just because she was the main character's love interest doesn't mean she was supposed to be "the hottie".
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post #25 of 65
6/16/08 at 5:35pm
The less said about the characters in Cloverfield the better, IMO.
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post #26 of 65
6/17/08 at 5:45am
Unfortunately I fell prey to all of the hype and watched it SD. Since the movie wasn't very good, I'm now torn about suffering through it again so that I can experience the AQ of the TrueHD track.

Is it worth it?
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post #27 of 65
6/17/08 at 6:48am
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Unfortunately I fell prey to all of the hype and watched it SD. Since the movie wasn't very good, I'm now torn about suffering through it again so that I can experience the AQ of the TrueHD track.

Is it worth it?

YES!!! Great audio track.
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post #28 of 65
6/17/08 at 11:36am
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Just because she was the main character's love interest doesn't mean she was supposed to be "the hottie".

It wasn't meant to be taken too seriously , Usually the female lead is considered to be the most attractive though.
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post #29 of 65
6/17/08 at 12:06pm
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It wasn't meant to be taken too seriously , Usually the female lead is considered to be the most attractive though.

I guess there's no accounting for taste. I much preferred the female lead to the girl who everbody else is drooling over.

Thank God we don't all like the same girls or there'd be a lot of lonely people out there.

Look at it this way: If you and I were the last two men on Earth, and these two girls were the last two females on Earth, you and I would be DELIGHTED with the split. Not too sure how the gals would feel. :-)
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post #30 of 65
6/17/08 at 3:42pm
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It puts the pictures in this thread or it gets the hose again.

The pictures are in put
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