[HDbandit]

This is the first time I have seen this movie on HBO HD, looks pretty damn good! I still wish HBO would show movies in OAR. Oh well, still looks good.

 

[rkunces]

Agreed, first movie i've ever seen in hd. just like im at the theatre

 

[bgall]

That movie premiered a loooong time ago, but still nice to enjoy it I guess.

 

[Rakesh.S]

cropped..body parts are chopped off left and right


sad part is..the movie was shot super35


kind of scary when you think about how good the movie could look in OAR

 

[jim tressler]

looked very nice

 

[Ken H]

Unnecessary comments deleted.

 

[DaveFi]

This one suffers horribly from the crop and chop process.

 

[HDbandit]

That it does, but is by far one of the best PQ movies I have seen on HBO. Could you imagine watching this in Pan and Scan on a 4:3 TV? I'd rather run backwards for 10 miles.

 

[hithere]

Yeah, OAR issues aside, I thought this was the best looking thing I've seen yet on HBOHD in my two months or so of HD viewing (I hadn't done any calibration of my set when SW:AOTC was televised). Man, I sooooo want to archive this from my 5c-enabled DVR

 

[bclements3]

Hi All,


While Matrix Reloaded was on, I popped in the Matrix Reloaded DVD and synced them up so they were both playing in parallel. I spent the first hour of the movie switching from ant a to input 1 comparing PQ. Surprisingly enough, I honestly could not tell the difference between the two! Well, except for the black bars of course. I was surprised, because my initial reaction when the movie started playing on HBO HD was that the picture just looked superb.


My DVD Player is about 4 years old, it is a non-progressive scan dvd player using component output straight to the TV. The model is Toshiba SD-2300. My TV is a new Hitachi 50vs810 LCD.


Now, I am not a videophile by any means. Are my findings just a result of an "untrained eye" ? Should the PQ on HBO HD be substantially greater than DVD or just neglible? How does HBO broadcast movies in HD anyway?


-Bill

 

[Ou8thisSN]

if you played it on the same tv, like say picture in picture or twin view, that doesnt count, because the tv would find a common like rez to display hd/sd together, and your comparison would be flawed. now if you played them on two identical sets, and synced them up, thats another thing

 

[bclements3]

Quote:

Originally posted by Ou8thisSN if you played it on the same tv, like say picture in picture or twin view, that doesnt count, because the tv would find a common like rez to display hd/sd together, and your comparison would be flawed. now if you played them on two identical sets, and synced them up, thats another thing

Thanks for the reply - I was watching both feeds on the SAME set, but NOT in PIP. I compared them by switching inputs on the TV, watching DVD for a few min (input 1), then switching back to HBO HD (ant a).

 

[Matt_Stevens]

The DVD is among the very best ever released. HBO's cropping results in a slight softness to the HD image, so if it was OAR. it would be a bit more detailed.

 

[Paul Bigelow]

Too bad about the OAR issue, otherwise, the picture looked pretty good.

 

[SONY007]

Unfortunately, the movie fails in comparison to the orginal, its not even in its same league. It does however look great, I dont see a big problem with the cropping, nice solid picture..

 

[HomerJay]

I saw it this past Friday. It looked good but I, too, wished it were OAR. It's on again tonight at 1AM ... considering that Gattaca that's playing now is OAR (the second movie I've seen on HBO in OAR this weekend), I'm going to check it out a second time.

 

[chrisexv6]

Werent the second and third Matrix movies filmed in digital?


That would explain good PQ on both DVD and HD-transfer.


-Chris

 

[Matt_Stevens]

35mm, Super35.