The New PQ Tier thread for Blu-Ray - Discussion - Page 42

Are you sure there is mosquito noise in 300?

If it is so hard to tell the difference between the mosquito noise due to compression and natural grain, how could you know?

I'm playing devils advocate here, because I do agree with your comments overall.

No, and that is my point. I am not sure, but I am sure on the other two films I mentioned. If a film is grainy and if grain looks like mosquito noise or vice versa, then for those who like grain, a movie with mosquito noise artifacting due to compression throughout should look as good as any grain intended movie. What?? What? WTF did he just say? I don't know which is more confusing. The grain debate, or the LPCM vs. Bitstream HD audio debate.

There is a debate regarding LPCM vs Bitstream?!

+ 1 These are the two most spectacular blu ray's out right now. The combination of a great story, amazing visuals, reference sound, and the best interactive features and commentaries make these the cream of the crop. I would put them one and two at the top of tier 0. These are the two best examples of HDM out right now.

I just watched Cars tonight and I completely agree that it's somewhere towards the top of tier 0. The PQ looked downright amazing/perfect to me. I haven't seen a transfer/movie this perfect yet (although CGI sure helps :P). I haven't watched ratatouille yet but probably will sometime this weekend, but the preview on the Cars disc looked very good.

I watched Underworld last night and I was a little suprised at the amount of backround artifacts in some of the darker scenes.

I have watched both in the last few days and agree, especially with Ratatouille at #1.

Watched Close Encounters of the Third Kind tonight. Wasn't too impressed with the transfer. It doesn't seem any better than The Shining to me. Pretty good movie though...my first time seeing it.

For those that are waiting for the reviews to make a decision because they already own the DVD, it still seems like it would be worth buying. It has all 3 versions of the film available for viewing and three lossless audio tracks as well as numerous subtitle options.

Brandon

I noticed 2001 was up on the top tier and thought it was a mistake, so I decided to rent it tonight and

how in the hell have I never seen this masterpiece before??instant buy for me now. Amazing film and the PQ is simply out of this world. I have seen alot of older movies in HD and this blows them all away, considering the movie is 40 years old its amazing how perfect the PQ is. It doesn't have the pop that Pirates or Spidey has but the PQ is just picture perfect, never seen anything like it, this is now right up there with Rat for me as the best PQ on BR/HD.

If it's as good as the Shining I'd be thrilled with it; I thought the Shining looked spectacular.

How was the audio?

agreed. i was FLOORED when i watched the Shining the other night. i'd actually be surprised if Close Encounters rivals the Shining for PQ....

Yeah, seeing 2001 on blu was definitely a great experience. Seeing it has inspired me to go on a Kubrick HD kick. I have The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut and Clockwork Orange shipping from Blockbuster Online.

Waiting... (Unrated and Raw) is possibly one of the worst blu-rays ive seen. no that i have some blu-ray viewing experience under my belt. this one looks as bad as HOFD!

definitely tier 5.

the director's commentary was cool though. =D

PS3 performing pulldown
Philips 1080p 42" LCD
8ft viewing distance.

Yes, it was indeed very bad. The plastic face effect.

I think the Shining was better, and I voted for Tier 2 for the Shining. I thought it was good for an older release, but not in the same quality as the Tier 1 releases.


The audio was pretty good, but I cannot as of yet take advantage of the losless tracks yet. I used the 1.5Mbps legacy DTS core track. Honestly I don't think it's anywhere close to the Ratatouille DD track which nearly blew me away at times.

I realize I'm not exactly giving Close Encounters of the Third Kind a glowing review, but part of the problem may be that the last 4 movies I've seen are Cars, Ratatouille, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's hard for CE3K to shine amongst that group of titles. I haven't finished watching 2001 yet, but it has truly been an experience so far. The audio and video is top notch and a pleasure to enjoy.

Brandon

Watched Cars today.

Wow! Clearly one of the best thus far, right up there with Chicken Little. Simply fantastic and clearly Tier 0 material! The detail in the BD version is amazing, and it really lets you see the tremendous amount of detail that the creators put into every scene. Amazing.

Oh, the lossless sound really kicks butt too!

Thanks Brandon

How's the video quality for the Ocean's trilogy?

Ocean's Trilogy

11 - 3.25/5
12 - 3.75/5
13 - 3/5

SQ - 3/5 on all

Startship Troopers should be in top of Tier 2 coz of slight EE in few scenes and outdated CGI gunshots looking bad on HD.

Watched the Polar Express last night and it was very good..definitely Tier 1 material. A good movie for the upcoming Christmas season. The sound was great of course..the action packed train scenes sounded tremendous. I did not see an option for adjusting the sound formats so I am pretty sure it is DD only.

I have seen the best presentation yet on either HD format, and it is Ratatouille.

This is astonishingly good. Amazing. Beautiful. Reference.

Ratatouille has now set the bar for how incredible animation can look. I know this isn't a thread for sound quality, but the SQ is pure reference as well with the lossless track.

And for what it's worth: this is the best Pixar movie since the Toy Story movies imo.

Ratatouille is about realistic animation. More than the Picture I liked the Sound. The LFE were amazing but not close to my reference LFE titles (Patriot, Air Force One).

Ratatouille had the most realistic shotgun blast I have ever heard!

OK. You talked me into it

I really don't think you will regret it John!

What a great visual feast. The colors were bright bright bright and the depth and pop was some of the best HD I've seen. I'm not sure where you'd put this film but no lower than Apacalypto. Nice job New Line!!! video 5/5

Sound: DTS MA 7.1... listend to the core 1.5 .. it was good. 4/5

119 screen Sony Ruby 1080p60 ps3 ... 17 feet away

I rented this tonight and it looks fantastic! The colour in this movie is very intense, especially the greens. It was a really good movie too........definitly recommend it.

I rented Rescue Dawn via Netflix but didn't realize that they only have the regular DVD version.

I sent it back without watching it....waiting until they have it on Blu.

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I picked it up yesterday and wish I could return it for the SD-DVD or a difference BD... totally sucks.

Guess I need to grab the Rat to see what this is all about. I'm surprised that Spiderman 3 got bumped, I thought it looked just as good if not better than POTC 2 but maybe I need to be more critical.

I'm in the process of trying to decide which titles are worth grabbing a second copy of since I already have them in SD-DVD. The Die Hard set was worth it, I did some side by side last night on the first one and am pretty happy with the BD copy.