I love PE. But I think the image quality suffered due to the shared encoding with HD-DVD.
VC-1 does a terrible job with lower quality footage. For instance the "caves" scenes used low-light (i.e., high-noise) digital and film. VC-1 dumped tons of the noise and took some of the detail with it. Blacks and shadows were flooded with this non-Gaussian "filtered" looking noise.
I would instantly buy BD-50 high-bitrate versions where noise is more natural, and detail is preserved.
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