Good first Blu Ray movie to buy?

Xenoxide

Xenoxide

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Howdy,

Just ordered an external Blu Ray drive for my MacBook Pro, and have the Apple 24" Cinema Display on order too. :D Looking to buy my first Blu Ray disc to show me what it can do, but I can't decide on what. :confused:

Wandered around town today looking for something that I thought might be *spectacular* to watch, but couldn't really see anything. Was looking at Transformers as a possibility, but need alternative options too. I'm looking for something that was filmed in HD natively, not upscaled for Blu Ray disc.

Don't really mind what genre it is, I enjoy blockbuster action movies, comedies, rom-coms, animated, you name it. Anything you guys could recommend for really showing off Blu Ray?

(Side question: How do those upscaled older movies look on Blu Ray? Are they significantly better than DVD or is it better to give them a miss?

I have Star Trek and Transformers 2 on order, but those aren't out for a month or two... :(

Ta muchly! :)
 
Serenity or Pirates of the Caribbean maybe? and I'd recommend Transformers and The Dark Night for the Imax goodness too :)

Also its my understanding that all movies from like the last sort of 30 years were in a resolution that was far past HD? actual film used to record the movie with has a stupid high resolution so nothing is actually upscaled. You just get really bad transfers on a few movies
 
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cokecan72 said:
Serenity or Pirates of the Caribbean maybe? and I'd recommend Transformers and The Dark Night for the Imax goodness too :)

Also its my understanding that all movies from like the last sort of 30 years were in a resolution that was far past HD? actual film used to record the movie with has a stupid high resolution so nothing is actually upscaled. You just get really bad transfers on a few movies
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My mate also mentioned this, when he bragged about his Blu Ray catalogue, I thought old movies wouldn't transfer over well, but he said exactly what was above....
 
cokecan72 said:
Also its my understanding that all movies from like the last sort of 30 years were in a resolution that was far past HD? actual film used to record the movie with has a stupid high resolution so nothing is actually upscaled. You just get really bad transfers on a few movies
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To give you an idea - Blade Runner 35mm elements were scanned in for restoration at 4k - 70mm elements were at 8k

So thats 4096x3072 and 8192x6144 roughly.
 
I have two, Wall-E and Iron Man.

Both are fantastic, but Wall-E is the better film and was the first one I got.

Gonna pick up Fast and Furious later today, that'll be my 3rd Blu-Ray. :p
 
Kung Fu Panda is at the top of some Blu-ray quality lists, saw it on Sky movies HD (they send 1080i?) and it was pretty top notch and better quality than most of my actual Blurays discs. Saying that though in the shops i noticed it selling for £35! While the other Blurays were at normal prices.

Following on from what other were saying about older films quality, I've got the original, unicron and galvatron awesome fest that is the transformers cartoon movie ('84) on blu ray and its really nice seeing the animations and frames in pretty much the quality that they were drawn in.
 
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I lost my blu-ray virginity to batman (the dark knight). Can't go wrong with that film, lots of action and impressive imax sequences.
 
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