terrible release announcements

[Beta Man]

If they rush out poor transfers, like House of Flying Daggers, and people can barely discern them from the DVD version.....then other titles in the format will suffer, because most people don't jump on the PC and google away to find out if a release has good audio/video quality.... they just go and buy it.... and if you burn a consumer too many times with shoddy releases, they're gonna pass on the next one.....

For instance.... No Country For Old Men (since I'm EAGERLY awaiting this as a blind buy) If this movie comes out on Blu, and the Audio/Video is absolutely garbage, and DVD-like quality..... all of the people who are new to Blu-Ray who buy it, will likely be leary about purchasing other Blu-Ray titles, even if they have POTC, and they say "wow that looks good, what happened to this one" Studios need to release CONSISTANTLY BETTER than DVD quality..... I found out the hard time, when I tried to talk my father-in-law into getting a blu-ray player, and he saw I had House-of-Flying-Daggers (which he had JUST watched on DVD from netflix) and asked to see it.... I hadn't seen it yet, and he said "the dvd version is just as good" Then I came to find out he was pretty much right....... The Blu-Ray version was VERY CLOSE in video quality to the Blu.... I could certainly "tell" the difference.... but it should be IN YOUR FACE "WOW" kind of difference...... Basically I'm waiting for Ratatoulli to come from Netflix, and I'm gonna make sure he's around to see it!!!!!!

Needless to say, as of now... he thinks Blu-Ray is all hype.... I'll show him, but it's hard to get a first impression out of someone's mind.