-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Hi-Def Media Lovefest: The war is over and we can all go home.
- Thread starter HyperionX
- Start date
- Status
Battersea Power Station
Member
Do yourself a favor and watch this on grainy-ass DVD instead:
It includes the best fight scenes I've ever watched.
It includes the best fight scenes I've ever watched.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Argyle said:
Well, to your first argument, you say you don't really care about them, so the fact that they don't take up space on the disc is presumably giving you a better feature.
As to web enabled features, 300 allows you to edit a version of the movie (like one where it doesn't have the politics crap) and share it online, or view other people's cut of the movie. I think that's pretty cool. Web enabled features on HD DVD have only been around since Freedom Vol. 1/300, so it's still a very young feature set. In time, I know there can be some cool stuff on it.
I loved 1 and 2, but the third one was a disappointment. Same as Spiderman 3 and PoTC 3. They just weren't as good as their predecessors, due to being bloated messes.
I'm still picking it up, mind you, because it should look stunning and it was still fun. I only have 2 animation movies on hi def, so this should fit in nicely.
VanMardigan said:
For high-def animation, now that you've got a PS3, be sure to check out the Blu-ray release of Paprika when it hits on the 27th. Dig the opening credits.
FnordChan
VanMardigan said:
Sure, but on a 50GB disc you could put the extras on there without compromising the feature
VanMardigan said:
I might have to check that out - I just went to the "web enabled features" tab on the 300 disc and only saw the thing where they were selling you ringtones...
ConsumerSquare
Member
Got mine today and my UPC is covered too.gkrykewy said:
Thanks gkrykewy for the head's up on the BBfB deal. I can't wait to get home and hook this thing up.
mr stroke said:
I'll let someone else answer that as I have yet to invest in a HDTV, let alone either HD disc medium. That said, Paprika is a visually astonishing film and if it looks great on the big screen then I imagine it'll look great in HD, especially compared to plain ol' DVD. Will it be a showcase film like, by all accounts, Ratatoullie? Not sure, but I'm guessing it'll still be pretty kickass. Anyone who's actually, you know, seen 2D animation in HD care to comment?
FnordChan
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
mr stroke said:
I have Freedom Vol. 1, and I think it's worth the extra money. I haven't seen that particular film (paprika), but the stuff in Freedom is so much better in HD. Colors pop, and everything looks crisp. That film has both versions on one side on HD DVD, so I was able to compare.
Sure, but on a 50GB disc you could put the extras on there without compromising the feature
That makes no sense, unless you're assuming they'd use the same encode, in which case they'd be wasting space anyway. If it's on the disc, it's taking up space that could be used for the feature, whether the disc is 30GB, 50GB, or 100GB. So, if they can push it out, and it's stuff you don't care for anyway, then it's a good thing for you. Also keep in mind that there is a separate disc for special features, just like Spiderman 3. Was there a space issue on that movie as well?
All I'm saying is that you complain that it's useless, but you take a shot saying that it would've been on the disc on a Blu Ray. What's the point of complaining then?
there are still areas that can benefit from animation in HD. Deeper color saturation, elimination of edge enhancement (which still exists on TONS of DVD animation), 1080p24 for animation at 24fps, plus backgrounds are usually painted and often given a tremendous amount of detail by background artists, giving you at least a slight bit more of detail than the SD picture. And of course there are computer assisted parts of animation as well.. Appleseed and Steamboy being the two most prominent off the top of my head.mr stroke said:
So in short, yeah... there are still areas that DVD can benefit by being in HD. Definitely not as profound as filmed or rendered content, but still an improvement over DVD.
Battersea Power Station said:Do yourself a favor and watch this on grainy-ass DVD instead:
It includes the best fight scenes I've ever watched.
His haircut looks strange in this flick. I haven't seen it.
But surely you can not say that the fights are better than the one in Oldboy or Ong-Bak?
OokieSpookie
Banned
You can queue things to download in the background Van, and after a while the PS3 will go into low power mode or if you have a psp you can do what I do and that is turn on your psp from work, log into your PS3 with your psp and start the downloads that way when you want to. ( and stream music or movies from your PS3 hd )
I take my PSP with me to work on thursdays especially since it is the day we get PSN content, that way I can be pick what I want and start it downloading before I get home.
I take my PSP with me to work on thursdays especially since it is the day we get PSN content, that way I can be pick what I want and start it downloading before I get home.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
OokieSpookie said:You can queue things to download in the background Van, and after a while the PS3 will go into low power mode or if you have a psp you can do what I do and that is turn on your psp from work, log into your PS3 with your psp and start the downloads that way when you want to. ( and stream music or movies from your PS3 hd )
I take my PSP with me to work on thursdays especially since it is the day we get PSN content, that way I can be pick what I want and start it downloading before I get home.
I hope it does go into low power mode, because I turned it on when I went to lunch so it can download the Ratchet demo. I have the PsP all set up with Remote Play (which is awesome), but there is no wifi here at work. I used it at home to play all my files on the PC through the Ps3 while I was in my bedroom, which is insanely cool.
Battersea Power Station
Member
Definitely better than Oldboy, and, yes, I'd give it an edge over Ong-Bak (although the most attractive thing to me in Ong-Bak was the stunts). I appreciate the grittiness of the fights in Oldboy and Ong-Bak, and while Fist of Legend is obviously more choreographed, I think it still features a lot of that "hardness" or whatever it is that makes those fights captivating. Some of the concepts are pretty true-to-life as well. As a fencer, I really enjoy watching the fighters use fake attacks and distance to get the upper hand.Shoho said:
tribal24 said:
I personally think Ratatouille is best release in terms of PQ but it is CG so it is unfair. If you are going to go for a non CG Blu Ray I would go for Planet Earth if you are willing to spend the money. It might not have the absolute best PQ but it is still the best package out.
Ignatz Mouse
Banned
tribal24 said:
My favorite-looking movies are Rataouille, 2001, and Casino Royale still looks great.
Superman00
Liverpool01
jenov4 said:
I like fearless more. Though Fist of Legend was pretty good.
Shoho said:
has anyone seen this on high def?
holy smokes. Hero is one of the most amazing beautiful films I have ever seen. Seeing this on HD might actually kill me from the visual thrill! OMG!
This has to be the worst movie donnie yen has ever appeared in. It should be banished 7 leagues beneath the sea.
DarkJediKnight
Member
DC R1D3R said:
I don't know whether or not you're being serious or sarcastic, but :lol
OokieSpookie
Banned
DC R1D3R said:
I never thought this would happen but I agree with you
OokieSpookie
Banned
Picked up Close Encounters of the Third Kind today.
Nice little book with it, will watch it soon and give thoughts.
Nice little book with it, will watch it soon and give thoughts.
aparisi2274
Member
hey just curious if anyone picked this up today and if so, whats the verdict. I loved the movie. It was very close to beating out the first one, and totally shits on the crappy 2nd one. So I was hoping the BD lives up the name...
aparisi2274 said:hey just curious if anyone picked this up today and if so, whats the verdict. I loved the movie. It was very close to beating out the first one, and totally shits on the crappy 2nd one. So I was hoping the BD lives up the name...
I ordered the gift set from Warner about a month ago, it hasn't shipped yet.
OokieSpookie
Banned
Just ordered the Company of Wolves import.
Such an odd movie but I freaking love it.
Such an odd movie but I freaking love it.
aparisi2274
Member
jjasper said:
I was thinking of the giftset, but I already own O11, and I hated O12. plus the versions in the giftset do not vary from the single disc std dvd release.
OokieSpookie
Banned
Sir Fragula said:
I love Bride with White Hair
Bit late but what blurays did you guys grab from the Amazon bogof offer? The only BD I have so far is 300 but I just ordered:
Fifth Element
Donnie Brasco
A Few Good Men
Layer Cake
and I'm tempted by Chicago and Apolcalyto.
Any others which are must buys? Tempted by Pirates but I just know they'll release an awesome boxset.
Fifth Element
Donnie Brasco
A Few Good Men
Layer Cake
and I'm tempted by Chicago and Apolcalyto.
Any others which are must buys? Tempted by Pirates but I just know they'll release an awesome boxset.
Sir Fragula said:It is a really bad movie, and I say this as someone who owns a number of these movies for unintentional comic value... It's even worse than this, which I was just reminded of for some reason:
So it's about a bride that goes around killing people? How can it possibly be a bad mov--
Oh, wait.
Cheesemeister
Member
Snah said:
Thinking about jumping into the BD market. Have the Pirates movies been fixed for their framing issues? I don't want to see the ground in rafter fights or faces chopped off.
RaidenZR said:
8 minutes apparently, in other scenes there are framing differences but not to the extent that the star's head is cut off. Think I will wait due to this as well as my fetish for boxsets, I'm more interested in owning awesome copies of them than watching them again in HD.
As for Hero, style over substance imo. Awesome visually but found the whole film boring, tried too hard to be great and never came close, just came across as pretentious and irritating. Greatness is not so easy to come by!
OokieSpookie
Banned
RaidenZR said:
Exactly.
I admit that it I am not happy about it but it is seriously barely even 8 seconds.
And even that is only the first movie.
I would imagine that they will have them fixed for a boxed collection down the line.
OokieSpookie
Banned
bengraven said:
No, I think it is more along the lines of "Gaf are not typical americans who have never seen good asian films and drool over every whatever they are spoon fed"
Anyway this is not a place for this debate.
I actually think there was a whole thread for it not terribly long ago.
OokieSpookie
Banned
OatmealMu said:So it's about a bride that goes around killing people? How can it possibly be a bad mov--
Oh, wait.
Actually there is nothing even close to similar between them.
The Bride with White Hair is a romeo and juliet type story about love, betrayal and promises with great action mixed in.
Christoff Yurievich
Member
ditto. I'm a little upset about it as I was looking forward to seeing the movies but as long as they arrive sometime before this weekend I'll be OK.jjasper said:
- Status