I will have these tomorrow. Fingers crossed with Dragonheart.
Every broadcast ( one in HD ) and DVD was a soft blurry mess. Im hoping for the best but I feel Im rolling the dice on this one. Its an old movie so the transfer will ether surprise or flunk!
I never owned Dragonheart on DVD, but I remember the VHS seemed to really stand out compared to my other tapes. I remember being really impressed by it, so I had high hopes for the HD-DVD.
Love the movie though, either way it is on my next order list. Keep us updated
Ditto. I've been hoping for at least a scan of the back cover of each to confirm, but no one seems to have it yet.
Both of these have *fantastic* extras that I hope are carried over. The length of The Frighteners documentary may pose a problem, but since it is standard def, I hope not.
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I really want to hear the reviews for Dragonheart considering the DTS laserdisc I own has a really great boisterous aggressive audio mix.
Yeah, I agree about the DTS laser. I wore that thing out, then snapped up the early DTS DVD, which in my view is still the DVD to beat in terms of audio.
That came before the half-rate DTS bitrate (768Kbps) became the norm, and was encoded at the max rate (1.5mbps). It's simply stellar.
The supplements on the Director's Cut DVD, just over 4 hours of 480i video, used a bit over 8 gigs. Uni could simply port over the same DLT master they used for the DVD and that would still give them over 21 GB for the 123 minute feature with audio. Based on current VC-1 efficiencies, I'd not only say possible, but likely this will be a single HD-30.
BTW, the supplements listed for the HD DVD are also what is listed on the special edition DVD.
Thanks for the pictures. I'm excited to listen to the Peter Jackson commentary. It's also nice to see Universal labeling the video encoded in VC-1. Do these discs include the newer menu system with the Clips feature? I believe Universal is moving to make it standard.
I do not have time to screen these until the weekend but I did put both on and i scanned through the chapters with no audio.
Both are winners. The Frighteners looks great. Nice sharp image. Only saw the slightest EE in a few bright outdoor scenes other then that it looked great
I was really impressed with Dragonheart because I was not expecting much. Its great. A few soft scenes in the faces but the rest is dead on. Solid sharp and clean.
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