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[HeavyHitter]

Originally Posted by DaViD Boulet

Agreed.

I'm not sure why similar qualifiers/disclaimers/educational opportunities aren't included with BDs of catalog titles... it would be an easy way to help consumers unfamiliar with the nature of the film medium become more forgiving, and then more acclimated and appreicative, of the look of real film.

The same can be said for OAR - I don't think studios have done enough to help the confusion.
I still see or hear too many comments out, "I thought the black bars were going to disappear once I upgraded to Blu-ray!!!"

[fitprod]

Originally Posted by thebluemax

I personally hate TrueHD. I can't think of a single film that sounded good in THD.

Yeah, stuff like Iron Man, Star Trek (2009) and The Dark Knight sounded horrible in Dolby TrueHD.

fitprod

[thebluemax]

Originally Posted by fitprod

Yeah, stuff like Iron Man, Star Trek (2009) and The Dark Knight sounded horrible in Dolby TrueHD.

fitprod

Yeah, they were excellent, generally I prefer DTS.

[Jeff Kleist]

Please just see a thousand other posts on the subject of DTS and how loudness psychoacoustically= clearer, and why you can't compare two different movies as a test of a codec's performance

[woodlandwolf]

Jeff, was wonderin with Beauty and the Beast coming out in Oct. What are the chances we could see the sequals of BATB: The Encahanted Christmas and BATB: Belles Magical World sometime on blu? Or dont hold your breath for there older direct to video titles for awile. Thank you.

[Jeff Kleist]

Sometime quite possibly, now no.

[MerrickG]

Originally Posted by thebluemax

I hate the Tangerine Dream version. The Director's cut with the Masterful Jerry Goldsmith score is far far superior. I would go as far as saying that the Dream score ruined an already pretty poor film.

we are going to have to agree to disagree then. I felt the DC was BORING and went on far too long. Neither cuts are perfect by any means, but the theatrical is what I grew up on and I couldnt help but feel SORELY disappointed when I finally saw the DC since it was supposedly the "superior" version when it was released on dvd back in 2002.

[Doctorossi]

All this talk about Dune puts me in the mood for the better '80's Lynch.

So... does MGM (gulp!) still control that chunk of the De Laurentiis catalog?

[MerrickG]

1.5million copies of Avatar on bluray? It came out YESTERDAY!! How do they already have the numbers??!!

[Jeff Kleist]

Computers are a wonderful thing

[MerrickG]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

Computers are a wonderful thing

Funny how they didn't take advantage of this during the format war....

[Jeff Kleist]

They did. The numbers just weren't impressive enough

[MerrickG]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

They did. The numbers just weren't impressive enough

Makes sense.

[aygie]

Originally Posted by merrick97

1.5million copies of Avatar on bluray? It came out YESTERDAY!! How do they already have the numbers??!!

Really? Worldwide or NA?

[Scorxpion]

Originally Posted by aygie

Really? Worldwide or NA?

Only NA

[Mr. Cinema]

Originally Posted by Doctorossi

Yeah, it's a little tough to know what's going on. You hang out in Penton's thread and always find him laughing aloud at the very notion that our headless-chicken neighbors' less-erudite bleatings have anyone's ear at all and then Bill goes and posts the suggestion that they're actually slowing the catalog release rate.

Got me stumped.

Is the source of all this AVS? I thought the studios didn't read that site. If that's the case, what criticism are they being too sensitive about?

Honestly, don't we, the PAYING customer, have the right to demand THE VERY BEST that BD offers? Shouldn't we be allowed to criticize when it's needed? Gladiator was a lazy, half-ass job. That film's transfer deserved to be ripped to shreds. The same goes for the original Gangs of New York and several other terrible transfers.

If they only read this forum, I'm sure they can ignore the lunatics and focus on the criticism from the majority of our sane members.

Doctorossi, this isn't directed at you at all. I just happen to quote your post as an intro.

[cjamescook]

Originally Posted by Mr. Cinema

Is the source of all this AVS? I thought the studios didn't read that site. If that's the case, what criticism are they being too sensitive about?

Honestly, don't we, the PAYING customer, have the right to demand THE VERY BEST that BD offers? Shouldn't we be allowed to criticize when it's needed? Gladiator was a lazy, half-ass job. ...

See, and that's the problem. Not to pick on you in particular, but would you tell someone to their face that they did a "lazy, half-ass job" in those exact words? Really? When was the last time you did that?

I always remember there are human beings behind these works. Do they really deserve the words we would only use on our worst enemy?

[Doctorossi]

Originally Posted by cjamescook

See, and that's the problem. Not to pick on you in particular, but would you tell someone to their face that they did a "lazy, half-ass job" in those exact words?

How is that "the problem"? Not to excuse inconsiderate criticisms, but this is the nature of customer-relations in the internet age. Any consumer-facing company needs to be prepared to hear angry comments from dissatisfied customers, regardless of the arguable merits of their product. Again, this is not to excuse it, but any company that's going to retard their release plans because somebody publicly said "This sucks!" is going to have some real problems in the wild and woolly marketplace if they don't grow a thicker skin right quick.

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

Computers are a wonderful thing

How/where can we find out how well Rome sold?

[Mr. Cinema]

Originally Posted by cjamescook

See, and that's the problem. Not to pick on you in particular, but would you tell someone to their face that they did a "lazy, half-ass job" in those exact words? Really? When was the last time you did that?

I always remember there are human beings behind these works. Do they really deserve the words we would only use on our worst enemy?

I wouldn't have a problem using those terms. Lazy and half-ass are hardly what I'd consider to be over-the-top. Honestly, you consider the word lazy to be offensive? Wow.

Regardless of what terms anyone uses as a criticism, my point is if they produce an inferior product such as Gladiator, they need to be prepared to receive justified criticism for that product. To add salt in the wound, that title was priced as a new release at $39.99 and had a nice shiny Sapphire Series banner slapped on the front. With the rumors flying around that a new master was created for an upcoming re-release is telling. It means they acknowledged they got busted.

Again, we are the paying customer. We shouldn't have to apologize for demanding perfection, or as close to perfection as you can get.

Fan reaction is the reason we got a remastered Gangs of New York, a remastered 5th Element, and a supposed remaster of Gladiator. If Paramount (or Universal) had planned all along to produce a new master for Gladiator, then they probably would have debuted the title during the anniversary year.