Poor picture quality Blu-rays

[thunda]

Not trying to complain too much here , but why are studios either rushing out films or putting out films that have poor picture quality (and A.Q. if applies).

I mean, this is BLU-RAY afterall, not DVD. I find most blu rays to have great P.Q. but some I just shake my head at. I just wonder if the studios shouldn't put more effort into some of these instead of giving us these low quality blu-rays.

I also understand the picture/audio quality is head and shoulders about DVD but these blu ray films should be "special", not blah!

For example, what about the Fugitive or Unbreakable. I understand the fugitive is an old film but come on. Don't bring it out yet if it's not polished up to look like a blu ray should. I love unbreakable and know it's still a good quality blu ray but for such a great title couldn't they have done a little bit better job?

I got a headache right now so maybe I'm just taking it out on the poor quality blu rays.?!

[kurtis21]

The poorest quality BLU i've personally seen is Bram Stokers Dracula and its a shame cause i've read that the director (Francis Ford Coppola) did this ON PURPOSE to make the film appear that it is as old as the time period in the film! (1800's). PLUS...I really like this movie!

[Kirsty_Mc]

The absolute Worst I have seen is "Rio Bravo" (Warner Bros.). IMO it is a complete waste of polycarbonate

[Durentis]

Originally Posted by thunda

Not trying to complain too much here , but why are studios either rushing out films or putting out films that have poor picture quality (and A.Q. if applies).

Why not? You'll probably buy it anyways and then they can release a remastered version which you'll probably also buy because the first release annoyed you. I did, and Phantom of all movies - it's a musical and Warner released it with a DD5.1 track and their end credits having an often higher bitrate than the rest of the movie.

Warner seems to be the worst for this given they're still releasing VC-1<20 and DD5.1. And they double dipped and cheated the quality on their blurays throughout the format war too, so why people were so pro Warner then is beyond me.

Maybe they'll catch on and start consistently releasing AVC>25 and a lossless track on blurays sometime in the next few years.

[kknight]

The worst I've see is Crash (BD) and Miami Vice (HD-DUD).

[PhiLeingFunkie]

Originally Posted by kknight

The worst I've see is Crash (BD) and Miami Vice (HD-DUD).

For shame. I've wanting to buy crash since I've been buying blu-rays. Im just waiting out for the remastered version

[tommyboy81]

The worst I've seen is Transformers. No Picture!

[PhiLeingFunkie]

Out of my collection? 28 Days later lol. Just lol.

Of course, it was directors intent, it was shot with a k-mart camcorder, yadda yadda, still looks gross. I love the movie tho :P

[sarge1976]

I totaly agree with you thunda! I usely buy 2-3 BD's a week, and that sucks you said unbreakable has poor pq, thats one of the bds I bought this week along with coyote ugly and the gameon hd-dvd for 13.25, but now that I know unbreakable's pq is poor I might just return it back to bb and get another bd, I think the pq on saw 3 is horrible. I'm sorry I expect alot from Blu-ray movies, we buy the players 300-500 and the bds 25-35 and the hdmi cord 40-100, we really should be getting our money's worth. sorry guys I don't mean to complain but I'm glad thunda brought this subject up.

[Aaron]

Michael Clayton had terrible PQ; but the movie was still amazing.

[sarge1976]

your right michael clayton is a good movie but has very poor pq, WTF why are these movie studios putting out such crap, like I said we all played there game and bought all the things we need to enjoy this supposed 1080P Awesomeness and we get screwed

[fdm]

So just get the DVDs...

[Mayor Quimby]

In my collection T2 is the worst so far.

[Gamma_Winstead]

The Italian Job.

[tommyboy81]

Originally Posted by fdm

So just get the DVDs...

Why would I when I kept hearing that Transformers was eye popping and I get nothing.

[Marcusarilius]

Originally Posted by tommyboy81

The worst I've seen is Transformers. No Picture!

Don't forget to push the Power button on your TV.

[tommyboy81]

Originally Posted by Marcusarilius

Don't forget to push the Power button on your TV.

Everything is on Reciever, T.V, Blu-ray Player. Nothing!

[sodrock]

I thought Enchanted looked a bit grainy. Am I the only ONe?

[HeavyHitter]

Terminator 2 is the worst in my collection. However, it's still noticably better than the "Extreme" DVD when I A/B'd them.

However, this title is just begging for a re-release with a new transfer/encode and lossless audio track.

[Boosted3G]

for some reason 300 looks really grainy on my TV, its almost unwatchable