The Departed

[dan21]

Originally Posted by Albatross365

It's hard to fault.

I'd give it the same rating as the review on here.

I echo this sentiment, I personally think it is a high quality transfer

I can only speak for PQ as I do not possess the required knowledge or equipment to properly assess AQ

[kashif]

Originally Posted by The Driver

On reflection the HDDVD must have been different as single sided discs were 15GB. These HDDVD Combos were 'flipper' discs.

Worth remembering too the US and UK Blu-rays will be AB (although the UK disc is marked "B" -but I just checked it and it's fine on an A machine).

Having just had a look at my discs I can see no difference video wise.

I'd just go for the UK version if I were buying now.

Originally Posted by Pyoko

The video bitrate on the UK version is actually slightly higher (the higher overall bitrate on the US disc is due to the uncompressed LPCM track). But I seem to recall comparing the releases some time ago and the differences were not significant.

Originally Posted by lgans316

US - 14.97 Mbps

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showp...postcount=2400

UK - 16.96 Mbps

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showp...postcount=1917

DE - 14.97 Mbps - Same encode as US but no lossless / uncompressed audio. Good old Warner.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showp...postcount=1917

Originally Posted by dan21

I echo this sentiment, I personally think it is a high quality transfer

I can only speak for PQ as I do not possess the required knowledge or equipment to properly assess AQ

Originally Posted by DaveSimonH

I imagine that with the very similar bitrates and all using VC-1 the encodes will be comparable.

Thanks again guys. I ordered the UK BD yesterday.