The New PQ Tier thread for Blu-Ray - Discussion - Page 11

I third that!

I think that is about right (re Night at the Museum).

Thanks!

Here's my vote for The Messengers. Tier 1 (gold). One of the best transfers I've seen.

I agree.

anyone get curse of the golden flower, was looking for reviews but havent seen any yet?

TIER 1 for bridge of teraphatia or how ever its spelled lol

seen a couple of scenes with obvious microblocking and in the dark scenes it lost detail
but IMO very good movie! they don't get much better.

(scratch the tier one vote I keep thinking your using hte old system.... tier two maybe a notch higher then what you have it now is perfect)

Night at the Museum has serious artifacting in the scenes with fast motion and some of the snow chase scenes are a millisecond from comply falling apart (two scenes with the TRex, and one other that is hard to explain). I feel that makes it a three or four max. The well lit, slow scenes are very good however.

Never saw any of the artifacts you are talking about.

Good for you. I saw it on two completely different systems, my kids saw them and another person I know, that is a A/V profeesional saw them. Most of you don't see the macroblocking on BD and HDDVD either, so I can't really take you seriously.

Well, that settles it then: I'm blind!

Nine Inch Nails:

Tier Two-You gotta be kidding.

This is as close to Tier 0 as you will get for a concert. I have been sitting on this one for two months. Finally cranked it up tonight...

Gotta admit, I thought I was not the biggest fan. My best friend dragged me to see them in the early 90's or so somewhere in San Francisco. Maybe the Filmore? I don't remember...

Concerts should be rated on a different scale than film and this show was pretty flawless on BR considering it's a concert. I just need to pop in any of my SD concerts to see the difference.

If every concert was at this level I would be in Heaven as most are horrible in SD.

Nine Ince Nails is Tier 0 on the concert scale.

More BR Concerts Please!!!!

-Rick

Talking about NIN I watched it today, well more of listing to it lol. I listing to it almost every day. Good picture awesome sound and good songs. But imo not tier 0 to many shots out of focus and the dark scenes don't have much detail. then their really isnt no "3d" shots or very few of them.

Guess I'm blind too! As I never saw any artifacting either. (maybe the RS-1 hides the artifacting and lesser quality displays exaggerate it )

Slim GoodBooty: I do not take you seriously.

Can someone please change of the title of this thread to: "The New Picture Quality Tier thread for Blu-ray" ?

All these new guys are coming in, starting unnecessary thread and asking which looks better etc... Most people don't know what 'Tier' means. Throw them a bone.

^ I agree, I made this mistake earlier this evening.

anybody pick up or view black snake moan yet to see where that ranks

highdefdigest gavei it 5/5 pq

HELLBOY

Man, this was a damn good looking title! Lot's of depth and 3 dimensionality, good detail and sharpness! This title seemed a perfect fit for showing off what the JVC RS1 projector can do with its 15K:1 contrast as it contained many dark scenes.

I forgot how much I enjoyed this tongue in cheek movie!

I am still having a hard time getting used to this new Tier structure. I think the current placement on the list is about right (compared to other titles) but saying it is "Tier 2" just doesn't seem to be giving it justice. Tier 1 sounds more deserving of where it should be (as do most of the top Tier 2 titles).

I would say Black Snake Moan is very high tier 1.
The picture is beautiful and the amount of detail is astounding.

There is a small amount of fine grain, but you would expect that from film.

I'm with you 100% Rob. I'm sitting 1.3x screen widths away from an 119" screen and using an RS1 that's calibrated to D65. Hellboy does not belong in Tier 2.

Ghost Rider, a terrible, terrible movie IMO, and two hours of my life that I wish I could get back, is another title that also belongs in Tier 1.

Just watched this film too. I was thinking the same thing while watching it - "What a GREAT RS1 show-off title!" I also agree - when you talk about it being a "tier 2" title - makes it sound like a lesser quality title.
Can't wait to see Hellboy 2.

Damn John, why do we keep watching the same movies so close together?

I didn't see this in the Tier list, but I thought it had pretty damn good picture quality, especially for an old movie. Colours were good, detail was surprisingly good.........there were a few soft scenes, but nothing terrible. Not a whole lot of grain present in most scenes. I'd say this is either very top of Tier 3 or bottom of Tier 2.

I watched it Tuesday night and I completely concur with the above, as well as the movie's placement. Great acoustic ambience! Too bad it wasn't blessed with PCM.