What First Made Your Jaw Drop About Blu-ray?!?!

[DarkDune]

I remember how far my jaw dropped and eyes opened when I first saw the little elephants walking across the sand in the Deserts episode of Planet Earth on Blu!

The clarity was indescribable!

Here is a screenshot of that moment -- Click for Full Image!

[Batman1980]

LOL how many times has this been asked now? For me the outstanding picture quality of PoTC: CoTBP made my mouth open wide, even in-store at Best Buy. The demo was the fight between Jack Sparrow and Will Turner inside that blacksmith's workshop.

[kman]

Originally Posted by DarkDune

I remember how far my jaw dropped and eyes opened when I first saw the little elephants walking across the sand in the Deserts episode of Planet Earth on Blu!

The clarity was indescribable!

I will get a screenshot of it later tonight and post it for you all

I would love to see that. First thing that made my jaw drop...hmm...had to have been my first showing of mission impossible 3 on blu-ray. That was to me one of the first transfers I was amazed by.

[kman]

Originally Posted by Wolverine1980

LOL how many times has this been asked now? For me the outstanding picture quality of PoTC: CoTBP made my mouth open wide, even in-store at Best Buy. The demo was the fight between Jack Sparrow and Will Turner inside that blacksmith's workshop.

isn't that the scene that had a messed up aspect ratio and it had to be recalled. I have it and have never noticed it but I remember hearing about that.

[Shanester]

TROY blew me away the first time I saw it

[Sponge-worthy]

Originally Posted by kman

isn't that the scene that had a messed up aspect ratio and it had to be recalled. I have it and have never noticed it but I remember hearing about that.

I still can't tell if my copy is an affected one or not. The scene looks fine to me either way, and from what I understand, it only affects 2-3 shots...something like that.

[online365daysayear]

Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, was amazing for an older film. It looked like it was made along with films being released today.

[kman]

Originally Posted by ryan69969

I still can't tell if my copy is an affected one or not. The scene looks fine to me either way, and from what I understand, it only affects 2-3 shots...something like that.

Yeah I still cant tell either. And I agree with you the first two pirates blew me away.

[Sponge-worthy]

Originally Posted by kman

Yeah I still cant tell either. And I agree with you the first two pirates blew me away.

The high-res, talking skull in the menu was a treat (also the first Blu I watched), as well as the sharp detail in the pirates' makeup was a definite improvement over SDVD.

[Kryptron]

I was blown away when i watched my first Blu-ray movie which was Black hawk down, the clarity and detail on the soldiers faces and sound was/is incredible.

[UFAlien]

The very first Blu-ray I watched blew me away pretty quickly, even though it was actually a really "meh" transfer in retrospect. But seeing all of Ed Burn's pores in One Missed Call was both fascinating and kinda gross.

[MosHighDef]

Planet Earth
Apocalypto
The Patriot
Rambo

[Moefiz]

Ghost Rider, was the first time I was expose to blu-ray and the PQ and AQ at Circuit City was

[o0Andy0o]

Well I had never actually experienced Bluray aside from what I saw at the stores. I always knew it was amazing but it never gave me the jawdrop moment. But finally after I got my dad to modernize and buy an HDTV and Bluray player, I bought four Blurays. One for me, my mom, my dad, and my younger brother. Sleeping Beauty for my mom, No Country for Old Men for me, The Road Warrior for my dad, and Cars for my brother.

But when I slipped in No Country for Old Men, my jaw fell to the ground after seeing the opening scene when Chigurh is being taken to the jail and he kills the police officer. I was BLOWN away and could not realize what I had been missing for such a long time. I'm the biggest movie fanatic that I know, and I could not believe that I had been missing out on watching my life's passion in such amazing quality.

By the way, this was all during May of 2009. I'm still new to the Bluray format.

[Sagacious Koreo]

Planet Earth was the first Bluray I bought and pretty much the whole thing blew me away.

[Sponge-worthy]

Originally Posted by Sagacious Koreo

Planet Earth was the first Bluray I bought and pretty much the whole thing blew me away.

There are some shots in Planet Earth that make me wonder where my eyesight ends and the technical achievement of the BD presentation begins

[MaCruz]

When I watched Wall-E on my PS3.

When I bought TDK and Kung-Fu Panda. Those were my first 2 movies on blu-ray. The PQ on all 3 were just

[Goat3000]

I would have to say the price.
But this past year, things have gotten very reasonable.

[Call_Me_Megatron]

First time was Transformers.

My jaw dropped during Blackout's assault on the army base in Qatar. It wasn't just the picture but the sound. I turned to my girlfriend (who was skeptical that it could look or sound that great) and her jaw was on the floor. We paused it afterwards and both said, "That was the coolest thing I've ever seen and heard."

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by Goat3000

I would have to say the price.
But this past year, things have gotten very reasonable.

I still can't believe the first time I saw Robocop in stores it was $35 and I just recently got it for $10, prices have certainly come a long way. Not enough yet though, we need to start seeing $15 as the normal catalog price and $20 as the normal new release price.