Ronin Uk version

[malwa]

Has anyone had a chance to watch this yet? Any comments on the quality of the transfer? This is one of my fave's thinking of importing.

Does play.com ship international?

Also any other recomendations I should grab with it thats a uk exclusive while I'm putting the order in?

Thanks in advance!!!

[lgans316]

Someone reported that the PQ was OK and not that great coz of a lackluster MPEG-2 encode on BD-25.

[NutsAboutPS3]

Just got my copy of Ronin today - it is indeed an MPEG-2 BD-25, sub 20Mbps bitrate from watching the first 10 mins. I don't have the DVD to compare, but I expect the BD is an improvement. However, just going off the first 10 mins, the BD is a long way short of demo material to convince your friends to buy Blu-ray players, lacking in fine detail and crispness.

IMO, a movie of over 2 hours in length like this should not be crammed onto a BD-25, especially not encoded in MPEG-2, and they also shouldn't have wasted the precious bitrate they had available by sticking trailers for x-men 3 and eragon on it.

Oh, and the box says it is region B coded, I don't have any way of verifying if it really is region coded.

[hollywoodguy]

Originally Posted by NutsAboutPS3

Just got my copy of Ronin today - it is indeed an MPEG-2 BD-25, sub 20Mbps bitrate from watching the first 10 mins. I don't have the DVD to compare, but I expect the BD is an improvement. However, just going off the first 10 mins, the BD is a long way short of demo material to convince your friends to buy Blu-ray players, lacking in fine detail and crispness.

IMO, a movie of over 2 hours in length like this should not be crammed onto a BD-25, especially not encoded in MPEG-2, and they also shouldn't have wasted the precious bitrate they had available by sticking trailers for x-men 3 and eragon on it.

Oh, and the box says it is region B coded, I don't have any way of verifying if it really is region coded.

It's Region B only. While I agree there is some room for improvement in terms of the encode, the movie looks the way it looks and neither codec, nor bitrate will make this look like Crank. Thank God. It's a significant upgrade over the DVD in all regards.

Now the audio...

No room for improvement there, it's already lossless.

[Gremal]

I'm salivating. Can't wait until MGM delivers it here.

[NutsAboutPS3]

Originally Posted by hollywoodguy

It's Region B only. While I agree there is some room for improvement in terms of the encode, the movie looks the way it looks and neither codec, nor bitrate will make this look like Crank. Thank God. It's a significant upgrade over the DVD in all regards.

I rented Ronin on DVD to compare with the Blu-ray, and just wanted to say that I am now MUCH more impressed with the Blu-ray. It's easy to forget how bad DVDs used to look.

The DVD looked okay from a distance, but up close it has really bad digital artifacting which is completely gone in the Blu-ray. The DVD turns the film grain into a mushy mess that moves about in a really unnatural way, and if you step through you can see the picture changing from frame to frame in ways it shouldn't.

The Blu-ray, OTOH, renders the film grain as nice fine random grain, just like it should be, and has much better clarity in the picture details. When you step through, each frame just looks like you would expect a frame of the film to look, no nasty rearranging of digital elements, just fine random grain.

So I'm now very happy with this Blu-ray and recommend it to anyone. The movie itself is great, of course, a wonderful blend of action (have family saloon cars ever seemed so exciting?), plot, tension and character relationships.

[UKJD]

When is it available to buy in the UK? And does it have any decent extras?

[NutsAboutPS3]

Originally Posted by UKJD

When is it available to buy in the UK? And does it have any decent extras?

Available now in the UK:
http://www.sendit.com/video/item/7001000134015

No extras apart from a trailer for the movie, and trailers for eragon and x-men 3.

[lgans316]

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDRe...in_blu-ray.htm

[aygie]

Originally Posted by lgans316

Someone reported that the PQ was OK and not that great coz of a lackluster MPEG-2 encode on BD-25.

That would be me

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...9&postcount=14

[BluStar88]

Japan is Region A.

I bought it from Japan. and was quite impressed its a great movie and a decent encode. it looks good but not great... (not reference material).

you can get it at www.amazon.co.jp