Fox Blu-rays? Not the Greatest?

[jocka06]

Does anyone else think the Fox releases aren't the greatest quality. Day after Tomorrow as a prime example?

[MOONPHASE]

i have to disagree on Day After Tomorrow i thought it was an excellent Blu-ray. a lot better then the dvd

[jw]

Originally Posted by MOONPHASE

i have to disagree on Day After Tomorrow i thought it was an excellent Blu-ray. a lot better then the dvd

AGREE, Fox may be slimming out the extras but the blu-rays they release are great quality

[andyparhelia]

Fox are my favourite studio! alway great transfers (at least with newer titles) and dts HD MA - which, because my receiver only takes optical, means I get the 1.5mbps core instead of the usual 448-640k Dolby Digital offered by Sony, Disney, Warner etc

I just noticed aswell that my favourite film, The Fountain, is done by fox in Europe - I got the usa warner version on the cheap but I think I'll have to upgrade to the fox version

[jocka06]

Perhaps it's just me then. I watched about 5 mins yesterday and felt it was slighty grainy compared to some of my other Blus.

[*TIMMIE*]

You should read the article on grain on Digitalbits.com.

It may be intended to look grainy.

[toothless_farmer]

My biggest complaint towards FOX BD's is their programming - while the main feature plays back ok, I cannot access any menu from any additional material on their discs, meaning that I can either stop the playback with STOP button on my remote, or just fast forward it till the addit. feature ends; neither Top Menu nor Pop Up Menu are accessible.

[alphadec]

Originally Posted by jocka06

Does anyone else think the Fox releases aren't the greatest quality. Day after Tomorrow as a prime example?

Some of the discs they have released is a pain like "die hard 1-4" but Day after tomorrow is very good picture quality.

But what I hate about Fox is the loading they use....... it takes almost 5 min just to start the film.

[pro-bassoonist]

Originally Posted by jocka06

Perhaps it's just me then. I watched about 5 mins yesterday and felt it was slighty grainy compared to some of my other Blus.

You should start educating yourself about film instead of assuming that film must look like digital photography in order to be good.

Read!!

Pro-B

[MOONPHASE]

Originally Posted by toothless_farmer

My biggest complaint towards FOX BD's is their programming - while the main feature plays back ok, I cannot access any menu from any additional material on their discs, meaning that I can either stop the playback with STOP button on my remote, or just fast forward it till the addit. feature ends; neither Top Menu nor Pop Up Menu are accessible.

Thats because they took a similar approach like Warner's blu-rays because in the movies made from Warner it has that same navigation of the chapters and bookmarks on where you left off instead of doing that press Circle or stop on the remote controll i believe even Superbad had that same feature in it. With Warner's blu-rays however when you press either top menu or pop-up menu (i forget which one it was) and it brings you to the main menu where all of the extras are and where you can go to play movie but otherwise you just have to do the bookmark on where you ended so you can go back to that same spot instead of having to restart the whole movie and then just keep pressing the chapter skip over and over until you find where you left off

[MOONPHASE]

Originally Posted by alphadec

Some of the discs they have released is a pain like "die hard 1-4" but Day after tomorrow is very good picture quality.

But what I hate about Fox is the loading they use....... it takes almost 5 min just to start the film.

I saw a demo of one the Die Hard movies at Best Buy (either part 3 or 4) and I thought it looked terrific on the screen they were showing it on at that Magnolia part of the Best Buy store i was at and the audio was out of this world good almost like as if i was there

[gaeljet]

+1 i don t know all the fox releases but die hard trilogy is told to bebad and predator is just so bad by moments that sold it! (why releasing old movies if it s not to make them really good ?)

[alphadec]

Originally Posted by gaeljet

+1 i don t know all the fox releases but die hard trilogy is told to bebad and predator is just so bad by moments that sold it! (why releasing old movies if it s not to make them really good ?)

When comes to Die hard on bd I can not see any difference from dvd picture quality to blu-ray. But the worst about fox is they loading they use there has to be a better way to do this.

[wakemeupalready]

I agree with you the fox blu ray's that i have watched haven't been that amazing I read a review saying that "From Hell" was one of the best transfers he had seen, frankly i wasn't that impressed It was only slightly better than the R1 Special edition DVD.

IMO though i must admit i thought Die hard 4.0 & Xmen 3 were pretty good transfers.

[jocka06]

Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist

You should start educating yourself about film instead of assuming that film must look like digital photography in order to be good.

Read!!

Pro-B

I'm sorry mate have i offended you? I had an opinoin so take the stick from up your backside and lighten up. I sick of these people jumping on everyone just because their not "educated". Get a life!!!!

[fsavoie]

Diehard 4 is one of my best blu!

The only complaint I have about Fox is that there is no french subtitle ('cause I have an agreement with my girl friend that we are watching the movie in English is there is subtlitles in french... and it pissed me off when there is English and french audio, and only english / spanish subtiltles...

[toothless_farmer]

Originally Posted by MOONPHASE

Thats because they took a similar approach like Warner's blu-rays because in the movies made from Warner it has that same navigation of the chapters and bookmarks on where you left off instead of doing that press Circle or stop on the remote controll i believe even Superbad had that same feature in it. With Warner's blu-rays however when you press either top menu or pop-up menu (i forget which one it was) and it brings you to the main menu where all of the extras are and where you can go to play movie but otherwise you just have to do the bookmark on where you ended so you can go back to that same spot instead of having to restart the whole movie and then just keep pressing the chapter skip over and over until you find where you left off

Pressing STOP just stops Fox BD altogether - I mean, even the Panasonic resume function that works perfectly with other BDs (well, at least, with Warner BDs) won't work here. It's not the same approach as Warner's. With Warner BDs, while watching special features I can access the main menu at any time (and thus stop the additional feature I don't like to watch.) Not with FOX BD's (and only with FOX BD's - all other studios make all this navigation either perfect, like Disney and Paramount BDs, or just ok, like Sony BDs.) So, definitely FOX BDs are not my favourite ones.
BTW, what is 'Circle' button? I don't have one...

[dgator783]

Originally Posted by alphadec

When comes to Die hard on bd I can not see any difference from dvd picture quality to blu-ray. But the worst about fox is they loading they use there has to be a better way to do this.

either get ur eyes checked or buy a new tv?

Theres a huge difference......it had awesome picture quality on my set, esp. from an 80s movie....again, any movie released on this format is at its best quality compared to any previous format esp. DVD (480i vs. 1080p is no comparision, even upconverted). Its identical to its threatical release. So saying that it looks just as good as its dvd, is utterly insane.....sorry but true

[dgator783]

Originally Posted by jocka06

I'm sorry mate have i offended you? I had an opinoin so take the stick from up your backside and lighten up. I sick of these people jumping on everyone just because their not "educated". Get a life!!!!

hes just saying before you go on and talk about grain issues with movies, just brush up on the readings about movie grain, theres been countless number of threads about grain that just repeat themselves over and over again....for example, theres about 20 threads about 300 film grain, and as much as you tell people that its suppose to be there, that the director intended it to be there, they still dont get it. What you see on a Blu-ray disc is no different then what you see in theaters. If there was grain at the theaters, theres gonna be at home......

[alphadec]

Originally Posted by dgator783

either get ur eyes checked or buy a new tv?

Theres a huge difference......it had awesome picture quality on my set, esp. from an 80s movie....again, any movie released on this format is at its best quality compared to any previous format esp. DVD (480i vs. 1080p is no comparision, even upconverted). Its identical to its threatical release. So saying that it looks just as good as its dvd, is utterly insane.....sorry but true

I bought a new tv in january (samsung)... don't think there is anyhting wrong with the tv. But I don't see any diffrence.