The New PQ Tier thread for Blu-Ray - Discussion - Page 32

Watched Troy/DC yesterday and it was great. Added footage was a good addition.
PQ was the same as HD DVD version of regular edition I had seen a few months ago, an overall great picture throughout. It didn't really jump off of the screen but was consistently detailed throughout. High silver or low gold tier.
Veiwed on Sony 46"ES2000 720p DLP with PS3 thru Monster 800 series HDMI @ 9-10feet.

Here's my opinion on a few recent releases. Feel free to disagree with me.

Tier 1 - Gold (Excellent)
Black Book
Starship Troopers (UK import)
Underworld: Unrated

Tier 2 - Silver (Good)
Halloween

Tier 3 - Bronze (Average)
Evil Dead II

Tier 4 - Copper (Underwhelming)
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Ghost in the Shell (Japan import)

My screen: 50" LCD (1080i) Viewing distance: 6' Player: PS3

My only knock against Dave M and Tim R is there were quite a few shots where the cameraman didn't quite have the shot in complete focus. It was like the shot started out ever so slightly blury and would get more in focus as the shot went on and right as it got in perfect focus they'd cut to another shot. (and that's a production issue, not the discs' fault) Other than that, I think the discs' reputation is well deserved.

(720p projector, 106 inch screen, dedicated theater)

Once I get a chance to rent these I can put in my input. If a few other people would like to contribute their feedback of these films, I can assign them a space in the tier.

Starship Troopers is the best Blu-Ray I have seen
way above Apocalypto, POTC1 and POTC2

Black Book is not particularly good picture quality, distinctly average, tier 2 at best, the colours are bright (so you will all say it is great)

I'm a fan of Starship Troopers, does Blu-Ray have the same NTSC/PAL system as other formats or would I be able to play the UK version on my North American PS3? Thanks.

BD and HD DVD are don't have any PAL/NTSC incompatibility. The only restriction is possible region coding and the UK version of Starship Troopers is not region coded--plays fine on my PS3 here in Fresno. It's true eye/ear candy but lacks the commentary on the SD discs, though most of the other special features are there.

Trading Places: Tier 2 or bottom of Tier 1. It looks nice but nothing special.

Coming to America: Same as above.

PS3 1080p24 to 46XBR4 (8 feet)

Brandon

Thanks, that's great news. I did some looking around and found a decent site for determining region coding: http://www.allaboutbluray.co.uk/inde...ges/willitplay

This is a good one:

http://bluray.liesinc.net/

Nice, thanks. Sorry for taking this thread off topic.

Well, I'm going to be sacrilegious and go against the grain and suggest "Troy" (Director's cut) was not the demo-esque quality video a majority of people seem to think it is. Parts were very good (quite a bit in fact, Tier 0/1) , but other parts very "soft", almost DVDish (tier 2/3). maybe not noticeable on smaller screens but I thought the PQ "swings" were pretty obvious. E.g. The initial battle scenes were razor sharp, but the subsequent "port of Sparta" scenes were noticeably "softer". If I "averaged" everything, maybe a Tier 2.
I'd also like to see the original movie again to see if the PQ was as uneven as I observed with this movie (this appeared to me a prime example of low bitrate encoding at work but some have suggested the source could be at fault).

110" Stewart Firehawk screen
1280x720 (720p) Sharp 10000 DLP HD Front projector (archaic, I know but $$$ hold me back)
14 feet back

Let the tomatoes fly. I've been pummeled already for d*ssing this alleged "demo" (?) disc.

No Underworld impressions yet?

No shooter review yet? I saw it yesterday and I think it's right there with The Patriot (one of the few I've seen) in regards to picture quality.

For reference, I am watching on PS3 over HDMI to a 42" Philips 1080p set, about 6-7 ft distance.

I agree with the above poster about halloween being a a tier 2 title, it looks great and underworld is defintely tier 1, great looking film.

i used a ps3 and 26 element lcd

WHAT? SORRY I CAN'T HEAR YOU. I JUST GOT DONE WATCHING UNDERWORLD AND THE SOUND IS FREAKING INSANE.



Sorry about that . Just got done watching Underworld and it looks amazing... and the soundtrack will drop kick you in the chest.

Black Book is one of the best PQ I've seen on either Blu-ray or HD-DVD.
Very Hight tier 1 or even tier 0 for me

Thanks for the heads up, just added this to my Netflix Queue.

The Warriors is still not listed??? For a 1979 movie, this is certainly Tier 1 no contest. Its way more impressive than Seven Years in Tibet and Bruce Lee (oldest movies I've watched) AND it shows in a 1:85 ratio!!!!

My TV: Sony KDL46-XBR2

Ehhh... Not sure I agree. Feel free everyone to offer other opinions

I dont think its one of the best PQ on bluray. I would place it low tier 2.

reference: 60sxrd xbr1 ps3

Ultraviolet needs to be moved up to Tier 2 (Silver). It is certainly more deserving than Tier 3.

1080p24 123" screen, 1.5 screen widths

I agree. The Warriors was great, considering the movie was made in '79. I just wished that they had forgot about the Directors Cut and put it in it's original theatrical release. The cartoon cutaways, were really annoying.

I agree. Much better looking than the sequel.

I am not sure I would go quite that far, but it did look very nice.

Wow, its been almost a month since an update.

Anyone can Take Over?

I would put House of 1,000 Corpses at the bottom of Tier 1.

The shots of Captain Spaulding in his shop are some of the most vibrant, 3-D, crystal clear images I am yet to experience on either format.

Austin has been very busy with work, and I'm sure Mongoose has been as well. They have been generous enough to allow me to help with the thread. And so, very soon, hopefully tonight, I'll add the lists of untiered titles I posted a few pages back, and also add the hyperlinks to the titles already tiered.

For now, I'll leave the ranking of films to Austin and Mongoose.