The Covenant (2006)

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Sony has openly expressed their desire for the new, more advanced video codecs to mature a little more before switching over. MPEG2 releases like this lend strength to their claim that less compressed still is better if disc space can support it. This ranks among the finest high def presentations I've seen. I can't recall any VC1 title that looked quite this transparent to film. VC1 often tends to look a bit more processed on screen sizes as large and revealing as the one we use, with slightly less detail, or softness in places that doesn't quite look natural to the source. About the only hint of a drop in resolution I found hear appeared related to CG effects or a natural distortion of the lens.

This resulted in the "Home Theater Spot declares war on VC-1..." thread on AVS.