Now that I have a PS3 sitting in my room just kinda collecting dust until MGS4 comes out I was wondering what good movies there are on BluRay that really take advantage of the tech. Seems like a large portion of their library are old movies that weren' t captured in HD and were just upscaled. What are some good movies that you guys have that are true HD that are pretty good. I got a $100 gift card with my console so after I get MGS4 I still have money left over to blow.

I just got the pirates trilogy, excellent series for HD.

Also, go get uncharted! its Ace

3:10 to Yuma
Planet Earth
Live Free or Die Hard
Casino Royale
300
Pan' s Labyrinth

The last two rocked my socks. But seriously, Ratchet and Uncharted don' t interest you? You could pick up one of those, and a Blu-Ray title and still come out ahead.

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I just got the pirates trilogy, excellent series for HD.

Also, go get uncharted! its Ace

I am a Pirates fan. Maybe I will grab that. How long was Uncharted. That is the only title I' m remotely thinking of getting. I' ve heard 6 hours and I just can' t justify paying $60 for a 6 hour title. I just downloaded the demo so I' ll be trying it out when I get off work.

Eddie, sadly I have just about every title besides Pan' s Labyrinth and Planet Earth I have on DVD and really don' t feel like buying again. I almost picked up There Will Be Blood (f*cking awesome movie! currently am renting on the XBL marketplace though) on BluRay today. I wanted Rambo but they didn' t have it in stock.

Have you seen Pan' s Labyrinth yet? It' s amazing.

Nope, haven' t seen it. Never was all that interested in it.

I' ve heard 6 hours and I just can' t justify paying $60 for a 6 hour title. I just downloaded the demo so I' ll be trying it out when I get off work.

defitly longer, 8-10 or a bit more i think

Uh... non-digital movies are still shot in resolutions higher than HD. It' s just that many early Blu-Ray movies were encoded with shitty codecs (MPEG2) because it was cheaper than using the superior VC-1. The other problem has been companies like Warner authoring from old HD masters in 1080i and then deinterlacing. Wouldn' t normally be a problem, but they had filters applied to reduce artifacts and aliasing on 1080i TV' s (before 1080p was standard) and you end up losing detail when you then deinterlace to 1080p.

As far as i' m concerned the best Blu-Rays movies in terms of image quality are:

Amazing

A Scanner Darkly
Pirates trilogy
I Am Legend
Black Snake Moan
Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within
I, Robot
Mission: Impossible III
Blade Runner
Ocean' s Eleven
The Day After Tomorrow
Enemy of the State
The Fifth Element
Ice Age
Man on Fire
The Departed
Gattaca

Great

300
Casino Royale
Apocalypto
Silent Hill
Pearl Harbor
Training Day
Swordfish
Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Lord of War
S.W.A.T.
Underworld
Sunshine
Dogma
Black Hawk Down
Basic Instinct
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
The Usual Suspects

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete needs to freaking come out. That' s probably the main movie I want. I should go and get Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (favorite movie of all time). Is Terminator on BluRay though? I thought that was on HD-DVD and T3 was on BluRay.

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete needs to freaking come out. That' s probably the main movie I want.

You and me both Ramp, you and me both

What do you mean by " weren' t captured in HD, simply upscaled" ?

Anyway as far as video goes, Pirates 1 is good (the other two aren' t even worth sitting though). So is Rambo (4) and Ratatoullie or however it is spelled. For sound, nothing beats Flight of the Phoenix in DTS. Rambo (4) is also good for sound. As for extras, well... who cares?

Terminator 1 and 2 are on Blu-ray, but they don' t truly impress mainly because of the crappy transfer and MPEG2 codec. They still look noticeably better than the DVDs, though.

Go to www.blu-ray.com and search for movies. You' ll find out if they exist on BD and you can read user reviews about their picture and sound quality, etc.

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Nope, haven' t seen it. Never was all that interested in it.

It' s kind of trippy. Like a violent children' s story.

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What do you mean by " weren' t captured in HD, simply upscaled" ?

I thought unless stuff was digitally captured in HD the original source material was just upscaled/converted to 1080p. Is this incorrect?

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What do you mean by " weren' t captured in HD, simply upscaled" ?

I thought unless stuff was digitally captured in HD the original source material was just upscaled/converted to 1080p. Is this incorrect?

Film is shot in a higher resolution than 1080p.

4096 lines horizontally? I know of quite a few shot in that (although I don' t know if there is a standard, or what is is).

Film is shot in a higher resolution than 1080p.

Not all the time.

hey guys did you know what happen to the movie planet B- boy it suppose to come out on the theatre and I try checking if it would be shown in theatre near me and the movie wasn' t available. Last week I was at the mall and I went to Fye
to check if they are going to release it on DVD and one of the guy that work there told me that they don' t have any release date yet. Do you guys have heard of this movie. Do you know if it suppose to come out on DVD or any other type of media. I really want to check this movie out.

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Film is shot in a higher resolution than 1080p.

Not all the time.

That' s right, some recent movies like the latest Star Wars episodes were shot in 1080p (and cropped to a 2:40:1 aspect ratio). That' s why they aren' t very sharp on the big screen. But anything shot on film has a higher native " resolution" than 1080p, by far. A lot of people mindlessly think that " digital = better" but that is not the case.

Many transfers are just bad, but that' s not the fault of film as a medium.

Ah, thanks for clearing that up. Guess I' ll be looking into some of those older movies then. Thanks.

Definitely visit the blu-ray.com link I provided above to see how users rated the pic and sound quality. The sound quality on older movies will usually be worse unless it originally had a 70mm release. The reason is because there wasn' t much in the way of digital sound back then and most movies were mastered in Pro-Logic. When digital sound came about, most studios really upgraded their recording and mixing equipment.