Another "stunner" from Dreamworks? (Anchorman)

[Spankey]

NOT...

ANCHORMAN REVIEW from HDD.

'Anchorman' is presented with a colorful 1080p/AVC transfer that's solid enough, but falls short of the best catalog transfers.

Paramount continuing to use AVC, huh?

[Esox50]

Originally Posted by Spankey

Paramount continuing to use AVC, huh?

Do a search for a post by WickyWoo where he was responding to me and mentioned something about Paramount and AVC...that might be your answer.

[jackinbox]

Originally Posted by Spankey

Paramount continuing to use AVC, huh?

That's not going to make Rdjam happy.

[Spankey]

Originally Posted by Esox50

Do a search for a post by WickyWoo where he was responding to me and mentioned something about Paramount and AVC...that might be your answer.

I may remember something being posted, but what I find amusing is they took MS money and now they aren't even using the MS codec.

[Esox50]

Originally Posted by Spankey

I may remember something being posted, but what I find amusing is they took MS money and now they aren't even using the MS codec.

But if they knew their contract was a short term thing, then what Wicky posted makes complete sense so they don't have to duplicate or re-do transfers to BD specs in the future. I personally don't know if what was posted is possible w/ AVC (vs. VC-1), and I don't want to ask the Insiders if it is because I'm sure they cannot comment even if it is true.

Wicky is pretty darn reliable, so I'll take his word for it if that's what he's heard through the grapevine.

[Spankey]

My only question would be whether or not a higher bit rate encode is being done at the same time? The Michael Bay quote this morning was telling.

[Esox50]

Originally Posted by Spankey

My only question would be whether or not a higher bit rate encode is being done at the same time? The Michael Bay quote this morning was telling.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...9&postcount=31

Ok, I found the post for you. As Wicky says, it's unconfirmed, but it does make a lot of sense. He must be hearing this on the grapevine...

[Firestreak]

I love the movie though! Hilarious...;;

[DetroitSportsFan]

Originally Posted by Spankey

The Michael Bay quote this morning was telling.

What did he say?

[gandley]

Originally Posted by DetroitSportsFan

What did he say?

ditto?

[Josh]

Originally Posted by Spankey

The Michael Bay quote this morning was telling.

I missed that too. Just posted something about it on the front page.

[gandley]

ah seen it now, thanks

[dialog_gvf]

When it was supporting Blu-ray, Paramount had managed to get to #4 in overall quality behind the great BD triad.

Now, Paramount/Dreamworks is putting out Universal-level 3.0 (Arctic Tale) and 3.5 (Anchorman) quality. That's just sad.

Compare that to the 4.5 for Superbad.

Gary

[Maximus]

Originally Posted by Esox50

But if they knew their contract was a short term thing, then what Wicky posted makes complete sense so they don't have to duplicate or re-do transfers to BD specs in the future. I personally don't know if what was posted is possible w/ AVC (vs. VC-1), and I don't want to ask the Insiders if it is because I'm sure they cannot comment even if it is true.

Wicky is pretty darn reliable, so I'll take his word for it if that's what he's heard through the grapevine.

Actually it has very little to do with Blu-ray.

Toshiba Japan are providing the authoring services for Paramount HD DVD. Toshiba ar one of the premier AVC-using post-houses.

A little history lesson:

When HD DVD was first formulated it was a red laser diode, two layer, 720p format which was going to use AVC as its primary CODEC. When Blu arrived boasting 1080p on 50GB with MPEG2, HD DVD reacted by enlisting MS and adding VC-1 to the spec. Toshiba have much more at stake than just the physical structure, before the war their Japan post-house was one of the most respected in the community, but since they let MS take the reigns of HD DVD and talk smack about AVC and Toshiba's own encoder they have lost a lot of that respect. 'The World's Best Compressionist' called Toshiba's AVC encoder 'broken' (which it most definitely isn't) and a pig to use, whilst safe in the knowledge that anyone who even breathed a (bad) word about PEP (Microsoft's VC-1 encoder) would be sued into oblivion.

[hollywoodguy]

Originally Posted by Maxpower1987

Toshiba Japan are providing the authoring services for Paramount HD DVD. Toshiba ar one of the premier AVC-using post-houses.

Are you sure? I thought DDS authored recent AVC Paramount HD DVDs like Transformers and Hot Rod. Did Toshiba do the compression for DDS?

[dialog_gvf]

Originally Posted by Maxpower1987

'The World's Best Compressionist' called Toshiba's AVC encoder 'broken' (which it most definitely isn't) and a pig to use, whilst safe in the knowledge that anyone who even breathed a (bad) word about PEP (Microsoft's VC-1 encoder) would be sued into oblivion.

Because anyone using PEP has to sign a NDA that forbids them ever talking about it in public?

Gary

[Maximus]

Originally Posted by dialog_gvf

Because anyone using PEP has to sign a NDA that forbids them ever talking about it in public?

Gary

Yeah, which is why some people got very irritated with Amir when he tried to goad paidgeek into taking on PEP.

That man has the ethics of a divorce lawyer, no wonder Microsoft shifted him away from the limelight.

[jkwest]

Originally Posted by Maxpower1987

Yeah, which is why some people got very irritated with Amir when he tried to goad paidgeek into taking on PEP.

That man has the ethics of a divorce lawyer, no wonder Microsoft shifted him away from the limelight.

And yet, he is still parading around AVS like he owns the place...he is still posting answers in the Insiders Thread...he even got it locked this morning...I sent a PM to mark rubin after he locked the the thread asking him why they allow amirm to continue his crapslinging...

[sj001]

Originally Posted by jkwest

And yet, he is still parading around AVS like he owns the place...he is still posting answers in the Insiders Thread...he even got it locked this morning...I sent a PM to mark rubin after he locked the the thread asking him why they allow amirm to continue his crapslinging...

What was his response?

[Bullseye]

Originally Posted by jkwest

And yet, he is still parading around AVS like he owns the place...he is still posting answers in the Insiders Thread...he even got it locked this morning...I sent a PM to mark rubin after he locked the the thread asking him why they allow amirm to continue his crapslinging...

I asked the admin over their straight out were they being financed by any company. They said NO. But it certainly seems to be very pro-HD-DVD and whenever there is something positive to be said, example Michael Bays statements they are either closed or deleted.