Avatar - Bluray.

Damien.

Damien.

Damien.

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Evening all.

Picked up Avatar on Blu-ray today and just finished watching.

For any of those wondering how the Blu-ray experience is, well, its outstanding. On par if even exceeding the experience provided by The Dark Knight.

Very very happy with my purchase and loving the film even after a 4th watch (3 times previous in the cinema).

So any one sitting on the fence, don't be, go buy it, NOW !

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Im hopefully picking it up on Blu-ray tomorrow, never seen it in the cinema so im looking forward to it.
 
Tbh I'm disappointed its in 1.78:1. I know JC prefers the full height for 'immersion' and what have you, but personally I'm so used to scope films on my projector 1.78:1 looks weird and almost constrained. I'd also be very annoyed if I had saved enough for my planned anamorphic setup to be stuck with a 1.78:1 presentation.

EDIT: I understand that the 3d scope presentation was 'cropped' from the 1.78:1 source. But tbh I can't believe that, I can't see for one second how he cropped a 2.35:1 frame from this.......

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Bluray resized to 1280x720 for out laptop viewers.

In the cinema I swear you could see his entire shoulder-breadth and some more.
 
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I agree looks so damn good on my Dell 24 inch, soo sharp. Even more so then in the cinema imo.
 
Damien. said:
Evening all.

For any of those wondering how the Blu-ray experience is, well, its outstanding. On par if even exceeding the experience provided by The Dark Knight.
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Well thats me avoiding then as The Dark Knight was the most over rated POS Ive watched in years...
 
I was really impressed by how it looked on my 32" 1080p TV, but was a little disappointed it had zero in the way of extras with it, I guess they'll be on the extended edition.
 
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Well thats me avoiding then as The Dark Knight was the most over rated POS Ive watched in years...
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Really? Over rating aside as the hype does get out of hand, I would be genuinely interested to hear why, I thought it was a good action movie with a great performance from ledger.

Sorry for derailing the thread.
 
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I was really impressed by how it looked on my 32" 1080p TV, but was a little disappointed it had zero in the way of extras with it, I guess they'll be on the extended edition.
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Yeah, in November there's going to be a special extended edition. Only extra bit I know of so far is an extended sex scene but it's not something I really care for lol, especially since it's CGI and between aliens.
 
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment today announced that James Cameron's AVATAR 2D flew off shelves to become the fastest-selling Blu-ray of all time after just four days in U.S, and Canadian stores. Excluding rental sales, it sold 2.7 million Blu-ray units in North America, shredding Warner Bros' The Dark Knight's Blu-ray sales record of 2.5 million units total. That means Avatar 2D in 4 days beat what Dark Knight did over 1 1/2 years. Retail sales of both AVATAR 2D's Blu-ray and DVD discs have exceeded 6.7 million units since its launch last Thursday, on pace to be the best-elling title in recent history.
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Have the choice of watching it on my 32" 1080p lcd telly downstairs, or on 24" benq fp241w on the pc in my room. Had this monitor for 3 years and aside from gaming, im getting a lot more use from it now with the advent of blu-ray, never really liked watching standard dvd's on pc.
 
Didn't get to see this in the cinema and just bought on blu-ray. Will be watching tomorrow night when I'm more awake!! Will probably go see it in the summer when it's re-released in the cinema.
 
Just finished watching it a few minutes ago, I was really blow away with the image and also with the sound, it was stunning through my Onkyo AV, I couldn't help replaying some parts :D
 
Got mine today - not watched the blu-ray yet but briefly checked out the DVD. The DVD looked easily one of the best DVD PQ I have seen in a long time so it seems James Cameron made sure all the disc space was spent on ensuring good PQ and AQ - so if that's anything to go by I should be really impressed when I watch the blu-ray later this week too. :cool:
 
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