Ice Age: The Meltdown review

[Jeff®]

Ice Age: The Meltdown

"This transfer's most immediately striking aspect is how three-dimensional it looks. Just about every shot has a wonderful sense of depth to it, with excellent use of that foreground and background that really accentuates the lush arctic landscapes. Of course the "source material" is absolutely perfect, with a crystal-clear clarity not degraded by any uses of artificial film grain or other digital tweaks. Blacks are rich and pure, and the slightly high-contrast cast well-suited to a film whose primary color is white. Hues are still very lush, especially the vivid orange-brown animal furs and icicle-cool blues."

"...as of this writing no current Blu-ray players or A/V receivers offer DTS-HD decoding...there is no way to access the DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on this disc at full resolution. So what you are going to hear without DTS-HD decoding is the core, lossy DTS soundtrack at a healthy 1.5mbps. But no worries -- 'Ice Age: The Meltdown' sounds almost as good as it looks. The punchy sound deign and bright dynamics makes for a downright cheerful experience. I enjoyed the cute, chirpy discrete effects in the rears, and John Powell's upbeat music score nicely bleeds to the rears but never overpowers the action. "

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/iceagemeltdown.html

[Josh]

He really can't ever give a BD a 5 star rating, can he?

[phranctoast]

Ive been looking forward to this title

[Chris Beveridge]

The whole thing must have hurt to write for him. Interestingly, a few small comments about the film by Kris Deering at AVS indicated that this was a poor looking transfer.

I watch a lot of digital animation, so the things that both talk about are simply inherent in the source, such as the color gradiation issue. Where the higher resolution and bandwidth come in is when it stops it from blocking.

[JTK]

Originally Posted by Chris Beveridge

The whole thing must have hurt to write for him. Interestingly, a few small comments about the film by Kris Deering at AVS indicated that this was a poor looking transfer.

At this point, KD carries very little credibility with me for a whole slew of reasons, but the most relevant one being: His partner Stacy Spears works for Microsoft.

Need I say more?

There's nothing wrong with the transfer at all, believe me.

I watch a lot of digital animation, so the things that both talk about are simply inherent in the source, such as the color gradiation issue. Where the higher resolution and bandwidth come in is when it stops it from blocking.

See it for yourself.

[Chris Beveridge]

Oh, I intend to see it. I've got it on order. But it would not surprise me to see gradiant "problems" there but it'd be on any format.

[ay221]

Originally Posted by Chris Beveridge

The whole thing must have hurt to write for him. Interestingly, a few small comments about the film by Kris Deering at AVS indicated that this was a poor looking transfer.

I watch a lot of digital animation, so the things that both talk about are simply inherent in the source, such as the color gradiation issue. Where the higher resolution and bandwidth come in is when it stops it from blocking.

Yeah If its from Kris, I won't read the review at all.

[4K display]

My favorite reviewers are eyeball 1 and eyeball 2, my own of course.

These online reviewers are nothing more than a slit of a slight guideline, at best.

[StarWarsIsAwesome123]

It's been nearly 10 years since this disc first came out and it's only MPEG-2 on a 25 GB disc. Does the PQ hold up well?

[StarWarsIsAwesome123]

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