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[spartanstew]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

It's not part of the spec, and the number of people willing to throw down $8000 on a CIH setup is pretty low

Less than $2500 with the Panny 3000 or 4000.

[DMC86X]

Originally Posted by PeterTHX

Um, you mean open up tall. Iron Man was 2.35 widescreen 'scope.

Dude you know what I mean. A simple answer will do just fine next time. Plus I wasnt asking you to begin with.

[neo_reloaded]

Jeez, it's like rude-ville here today...

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by DMC86X

Dude you know what I mean. A simple answer will do just fine next time. Plus I wasnt asking you to begin with.

Hmmm. Simpler...not sure how to dumb it down more.

IMAX. Film bigger. Tall like building. Not wide like fat man.

Originally Posted by neo_reloaded

Jeez, it's like rude-ville here today...

Perhaps some people are feeling arrogant since the Saints are 9-0.

[DMC86X]

Originally Posted by PeterTHX

Hmmm. Simpler...not sure how to dumb it down more.

IMAX. Film bigger. Tall like building. Not wide like fat man.



Perhaps some people are feeling arrogant since the Saints are 9-0.

Wow I guess your ignorance forced you to miss the original question in the first place. And like I said before I was asking Jeff, not you. Move on troll.

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by DMC86X

Wow I guess your ignorance forced you to miss the original question in the first place. And like I said before I was asking Jeff, not you. Move on troll.

Troll?

Amusing. On a public discussion board.
Kids today. No respect for their elders. Sigh.

[JonBidinger]

Originally Posted by Alan Gordon

Jeff,

I know movies get switched from studios every now and then, but I'm surprised to see "The Phantom" and "Hard Rain" coming to Blu-ray in February by Lionsgate. Looking on Amazon, Lionsgate previously released "Hard Rain" on DVD, but this is a first for "The Phantom".

Did Paramount sell some of their catalog to Lionsgate, or was Lionsgate involved with the films, and the home release rights switched to them?

~Alan

I know that Paramount licensed a number of titles for Lionsgate to release, the only name publicised at the time was My Bloody Valentine original recipe, so presumably these titles were part of the deal.

[NoQuestion]

Jeff,

fox has been great at putting out most recent tv series on blu, and just recently announced Glee for DVD but no blu announcement. Do you know if glee is going to get a blu release alongside te DVD or should I plan to picking up the DVD?

[Alan Gordon]

Originally Posted by JonBidinger

I know that Paramount licensed a number of titles for Lionsgate to release, the only name publicised at the time was My Bloody Valentine original recipe, so presumably these titles were part of the deal.

Thanks for the information!

Originally Posted by NoQuestion

Jeff,

fox has been great at putting out most recent tv series on blu, and just recently announced Glee for DVD but no blu announcement. Do you know if glee is going to get a blu release alongside te DVD or should I plan to picking up the DVD?

Not Jeff, but a friendly heads-up from another "Gleek".

Fox has announced "Glee: Volume One - The Road To Sectionials" for next month. A Volume Two will be released next year.

However, Fox will also (apparently) be releasing a Season One set next year as well (read here or here). I'm HOPING (PRAYING) for a Blu-ray release of the Season One set... as this show SCREAMS for the "lossless" treatment...

~Alan

[Jeff Kleist]

Any Glee Blu would be complete season

[Pain]

Jeff I was woundering if you know when fox is going to release Prison Break season's
2 & 4 on blu-ray in the states? Thanks

[Jeff Kleist]

Sooner rather than later, but not real real soon

[DMC86X]

Jeff I asked this a couple days ago but I guess you missed it. No big deal but I guess ill give it another shot. Do you know if any scenes in Iron Man 2 were shot with Imax cameras like The Dark knight and Transformers 2?? I love the shifting aspect ratio Blus. Do you think IM2 will have this?? Thanx again man.

[Jeff Kleist]

They talked about doing some of the VFX flying sequences in IMAX, I don't know if they actually shot anything IMAX or whether the former was cleared.

[Diesel]

Favreau stated that the costs were too high to film in IMAX (or 3D like he would have wanted after going behind the scenes of Avatar with Cameron).

He has said though that he'd like to look at 3D (....) for Iron Man 3. Which would probably mean IMAX is possible for Iron Man 3 as well.

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[NoQuestion]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

Any Glee Blu would be complete season

Well on that note I will wait to see if FOX releases a complete season after the last 9 episodes.

[phansson]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

Maybe a few specialty ones, but as a rule no. It's not part of the spec, and the number of people willing to throw down $8000 on a CIH setup is pretty low, and 21:9 TVs will never be more than a curiosity to the mainstream. Everyone else covered merrick well so I won't touch on that. Any anamorphic Blu-rays would not be backwards compatible on other players like the anamorphic laserdiscs that came out.

I know that CIH is not even close to "main stream", but why would we need any new players? All you would have to do is do a 2.40 movie in a "fullscreen" 16x9 format. Then the anamorphic lens (or stretch function on a 21:9 HDTV) would widen it out for full 1080p resolution! How good do you think that would look?

Sorry, I have to dream a little......

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by phansson

I know that CIH is not even close to "main stream", but why would we need any new players? All you would have to do is do a 2.40 movie in a "fullscreen" 16x9 format. Then the anamorphic lens (or stretch function on a 21:9 HDTV) would widen it out for full 1080p resolution! How good do you think that would look?

Sorry, I have to dream a little......

what would anyone without CIH see?

[phansson]

Originally Posted by Anthony P

what would anyone without CIH see?

I am more concerned with what I would see. (just kidding).

Yes, it would not work for standard 16x9 viewing, but wow it would look gorgeous on a CIH setup.

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by phansson

I am more concerned with what I would see. (just kidding).

Yes, it would not work for standard 16x9 viewing, but wow it would look gorgeous on a CIH setup.

not arguing the point, just explaining what I think he meant. Like you said the CIH market is too small and since for everyone else “stretched tall” would not make sense, the only way it would work is if people bought new players that corrected for anamorphic if they where not watching on a CIH set-up, the same way an anamorphic lens does on a CIH set-up(well the tech side would be opposite but the effect would be the same).