Prestige HD DVD

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Originally Posted by The Big Blue

ZING!

That's a good one.

[zombieking]

Scratch out "The Look" as well and replace it with "Far from"

[dobyblue]

It should be pointed out that Warner released this in the UK on both Blu-ray and HD DVD and I believe neither of them had a lossless audio track.

[jubaiweaponx]

this is another one of those funny pics that are gonna keep popping up ,lol

[Freebster2007]

So much for the the look and sound of perfect huh?

[NutsAboutPS3]

Originally Posted by dobyblue

It should be pointed out that Warner released this in the UK on both Blu-ray and HD DVD and I believe neither of them had a lossless audio track.

Yes, I'm pretty sure the UK Blu-ray of The Prestige is just a straight port of the UK HD DVD which was released a long time before the Blu-ray was.

If I was absolutely squinting with my face up to the screen I might say that the VC-1 transfer has an slighly smoother veneer than the AVC MPEG-4, but really the two transfers are so similar as to be virtually indistinguishable.

I was very unimpressed with the picture quality of the UK Blu-ray version, it's a low bitrate VC-1 encode. I haven't seen the US AVC encode but I'd be very surprised if the difference is as small as they suggest.

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Originally Posted by zombieking

Scratch out "The Look" as well and replace it with "Far from"

Or how about making LOOK appear soft and pixelated, and spell it PERFEKT?

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If I was absolutely squinting with my face up to the screen I might say that the VC-1 transfer has an slighly smoother veneer than the AVC MPEG-4, but really the two transfers are so similar as to be virtually indistinguishable.

Alas, all things are not equal between this HD DVD import and its US-released Blu-ray counterpart. While Buena Vista delivered a terrific uncompressed PCM 5.1 surround track (48 kHz/24-bit/6.9mpbs) for 'The Prestige' on Blu-ray, it gets demoted here to a measly 640kbps Dolby Digital-Plus track, and it just can't compete. While the Blu-ray was not truly reference quality (the film's sound design is probably a bit too reserved for that), it certainly trounces its UK HD DVD counterpart.

Slight BD win for PQ
Big BD win for AQ

Blu-ray: The Look and Sound of More Perfect

[phil]

Shouldn't even steal that slogan, it's a complete lie.