The New PQ Tier thread for Blu-Ray - Discussion - Page 8

I have to agree. I just finished watching Weeds: Season 1 last night, and even my wife commented on the noisy picture. It's very inconsistent. Some of the shots are beautiful, but it's wildly inconsistent with compression noise, softness, and weird contrast issues. I guess shoving 4 hours of content on a BD-50 isn't such a good idea.

It certainly doesn't belong higher than titles like Ghostrider or Hellboy, which have a more polished and consistent image.

YAWN......
guess what movie my son kept bugging to watch right now... night at the museum.

**edit** so it seems like the movie has a ton of digital noise. when i say a ton i mean it their but not very noticeable just that its their way to much

watch any movie 100 times and you will notice more flaws with each viewing.

lol true! even pirates DMC xylon posted screen shots with microblocking.

Time code please. I didn't see ANY digital noise, much less "tons" of it!

From HDD:


He mentions EE (I didn't notice it) but does not mention anything about any "digital noise".

and he doesn't give timestamps either.

he is just a creative writer. that's all.

throwing around big words.

The "New" Tier thread? Gold/Silver/Bronze/etc... This thread looks like a direct ripoff of what used to be here just run by someone else. You guys should really take some hints from when the HD-DVD guys have developed in their forum for rating media.

just not the polls those things have been sabotaged! com'on look at traffic and some others have more 5 ratings then atl and training and some other movies

Funny that even the OP of the new rating system for HD-DVD's realizes the weakness of the new system that Guru thinks is perfect.

that's exactly what it is. a direct rip off run by someone else.

your power of observation is scary



^^^^^^^^^^^^LOL

well i like it how it was before but it seems like allot of people like to complain just for the hell of it and not try to help and give their advice on trying to improve the thread.

Not that I dont like the polls but they should not dictate where a movie should go. Someone with enough computer skills can go on each movie and vote it a couple of times just to sabotage it. I like the avs polls but hate how it averages both when this thread and the other are more of eye candy threads rather then overall movie thread.

apocalypto tier 0 no way. Don't get me wrong, its a good looking transfer, but it's not great to the extent of placing it in my top 3 reference titles.

I agree.

And don't get me wrong either, because I do, in fact, think it is a fantastic looking title. Just not "Tier 0" good.

Personally, I didn't think Night at the Museum looked that great. Maybe it's placed a bit too low, but it's definitely not up there.

Also Blood Diamond. I really expected this movie to look awful given the huge thread crapping on Warner. This baby, minus a few scenes and camera angles, looked REALLY good. I was very happy with how it looked and like where it is placed. Sound was unbelievable as well.

Ironic indeed

Anyways Apocalypto should be placed in the middle of tier 1. Here is how I would place it..

TIER 0

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Corpse Bride
A Scanner Darkly

TIER 1


Chicken Little
Open Season
Crank
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Happy Feet
The Wild
The Ant Bully
Apocalypto
Happily N'Ever After
Black Hawk Down
Kingdom of Heaven

What display are you using?

excellent work, i like this tier thread a lot more than the old one.

Nothing special - Pioneer 5070 from 8 feet.

err, this tier thread appears to be an exact copy of the old one,tier titles and all
platinum,gold, copper etc

You are a bit far back from that size screen, but not unreasonably so. Anyway, what what it about Night at the Museum that prevented you from thinking it was very good (I still think it is one of the very best I have seen yet)?

It's actually 7 1/2 feet if that makes a differences. I'm feeding from a PS3 at 1080p24.

In any case, let me pop this back in the next couple days just to see if my mind is rusty. I saw it back in March so perhaps it will look better know that I thought. Any scenes you'd recommend I hit to see the pop?

Thanks,
Chris

Chris, honestly I wouldn't say there are any particular scenes to look at since I thought it was much more consistent than the majority of titles. But I seem to remember being impressed by the first scene that introduced us to the museum (as the camera goes inside).

The depth, three dimensionality, sharpness and colors were all excellent.

Hey Austin,

The new Tier thread is looking good; but can I suggest a few changes in the top portion of the first post.


Sky Captain is actually in Tier 3.


I would also delete this part. Other than that, the list is looking good. I'm glad to see plenty of members participating.

I would also vote for Apocalypto being moved. Open Season and Chicken Little had much more 3-D pop and appear more flawless. Apocalypto is too heavily-stylized for Tier 0 IMHO.

I wish I could see 3D pop At least I seee a wonderful picture.

Just watched Reign of Fire, went and checked out HDD's review just now. This transfer is murky with only so-so blacks and not so great shadow detail, with VERY noticeable edge enhancement in some scenes and at times borderline blooming whites. The print itself isn't even in great shape and I noticed blemishes on a few occasions. What the hell is Peter Bracke looking at sometimes? Certainly not the same film I am on some occasions. The audio is flawless with insane imaging, and he gave that part of the review 4 stars, while the video got 4 1/2! Honestly this is one of the worst BD transfers I've seen which is unusual for Disney, which IMO produces the best BD transfers of all studios. Put this one way down in the tiers imo.

Whoa, move Weeds way down. Very inconsistent transfer, lots of grain in some episodes.

Oh, and I watched Primeval last night. Terrible movie, but good PQ. High tier 2

WOW. POTC 2 has got to be the best BD I've viewed to date. Out of about 5. Just got me a player!

I'd like to have the setups that you guys do because my setup is surely 2d.