Releases on BluRay/HD-DVD

Droolinggimp · 8 Jul 2007 at 07:34

I agree with the posts about "film" being better than HD. In a way it is.

Film produces an image on each frame by the light burning the viewed image onto it. (I pretty much belive thats how it done, same principle as photography)

As there are no resolution restrictions with film it will be down to the digital side of things to produce the higher HD images as possible.
I would imagine if there was a codec/tv etc that could produce a resolution of 40,000x30,000 the HD image would still look good, in better quality that we can see now on our HD TVs etc..

Thats the way I see it. Correct me if im wrong.

Tommy B · 8 Jul 2007 at 14:28

That's what I heard, but it seems to me films which are filmed in dedicated HD look miles better than films which have been scanned to HD from the origional film. Could just by Sky Movies HD not doing things properly though.

Tommy B · 8 Jul 2007 at 14:28

wedgie said:
There is a site around that ranks the quality of many HD movies, ranging from barely any improvement over standard dvd, right through to full HD picture.

Does anyone know what this is?

Flibster · 8 Jul 2007 at 16:55

james.miller said:
film far supasses the resolution of 'hd'

So true.

The new Bond DVD releases were scanned from the original negative at 4000x3000 - that was the limit for the film stock from that time. Took 4 seconds per frame to scan it. Modern film stock, you could probably go 50% higher than that.

The biggest advantage to using digital cameras at the moment is the speed in getting it onto the computer for the digital effects guys and even digital editing.

90 mins of footage takes 90 mins to get onto the computer systems.

Admittadly you no longer have to wait for developing, and you can very quickly locate the shots to use and avoid the rest.

Biggest disadvantage of digital at the moment is the lack colour ability and depth of field iirc.

Simon/~Flibster

Windle · 9 Jul 2007 at 21:32

Ones which stand out in my memory are :-

Both the Pirates of the Caribbean are excellent quality and considered to be one of the best HD picture quality available.

The Pursuit of Happiness was always good quality.

bledd · 9 Jul 2007 at 22:48

my first two blueray/hddvd's will be 300 and Transformers

-pre reply edit..

Predator will be the first i buy (if its released?) -actually is the 'film' they would have used to film it (198x) good enough quality? not sure how it works with older films..

doodah · 10 Jul 2007 at 00:15

I cant fricking wait until Transformers comes out in HD

alexakasloth · 10 Jul 2007 at 07:51

Jokester said:
That's the breakdown of sales according to a online site.

Jokester

Do you know if that includes games?

wedgie · 10 Jul 2007 at 08:25

Tommy B said:
Does anyone know what this is?

I've looked for about 20 minutes now and I still can't find it.

What's making it more difficult is that it's not a specific site, it's a thread in another forum iirc.

I heard about it in a thread from here, but again I can't find that either. I can't rememeber who posted the link, I think it may have been rp2000, though I'm not at all sure about it.

wedgie · 10 Jul 2007 at 08:47

Not sure if this is the exact thread but it's the same idea:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=858316

Windle · 10 Jul 2007 at 20:33

$loth said:
Do you know if that includes games?

Nope, games are classified as games not blu-rays despite the fact they are on Blu-Ray discs. Blu-Ray sales figures are blu-ray films only.

The difference can likely be attributed to the difference in numbers of players. Total combined players (Standalone and HD-DVD addon drive for 360 and PS3) show HD-DVD players standing at 300k ish. Blu-Ray players are at over 1.5million, mainly due to PS3 sale figures.