Official Casino Royale Reviews Discussion

[Deciazulado]

Well, and he is also comparing it to the times he saw it in the theater. The thing is, I'm in the opinion that digital video presentations can sometimes surpass many parameters of the average theater presentations with the right equipment. One of them can be image contrast. So maybe the disc is brighter and sharper than the theatrical and that is jarring to him. Second, if the transfer is made from the original camera elements or other pre-print elements, or digital files, the image can be clearer or less noisy/grainy, or the reverse have sharper grain than what you see in an average theater print, and start to be a subjectively "different" experience (I've already seen several BDs like this.) Also watching at different distances/viewing angles from how you watch in the theater screen can changes your perception of image quality. For example, at 2 TV screen widths, watching Bond it's like watching the film in the theater in the last row of the hall against the back wall, which is different to sitting in the middle or in the good front rows, and you might not see all the fine detail there is in the print (or the disc). Taking that parameter as an example, I know for certain that Chad Varnadore does his evaluations at theater viewing angles therefore for my own personal criteria I trust his High Def reviews to be discriminating enough for this.

[BlackMamba]

Highdefdigest posted their review - (4 PQ, 4.5 AQ)

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/casinoroyale.html

[Scorxpion]

Till now two sites has been review this title IGN and Hometheaterforum ,and the picture Quality is gorgeous except for Peter Bracke which as always he try to destroy the image because he prefers and always prefer HD-DVD over BD this is my experience and i have been following him since august .So i dont trust him to give this recent title a 4 stars.......,Anyway Chad promised us to throw his review by early tomorrow night and i trust him .Already ordered it from Amazon and its really a Smashing titles in sales and maybe in history of High definition

[The Big Blue]

To me, the odd thing with a lot of his BD reviews is that the rating doesn't seem to match up with the review. This is a 4 star review but it reads more like a 3.

I'm not worried, I'm pretty sure it's going to look pretty damn good on my 960.

[Scorxpion]

Casino Royale gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous done it By CHAD.......go and see it

[Shin-Ra]

Originally Posted by Ben Williams, hometheaterforum

Also worth noting, this is the first Blu-ray release to actually feature a Blu-ray player and disc in a scene from the movie. When Bond is checking out the security videos in the hotel in the Bahamas, he uses a Sony BDP-S1 to play back a security camera recording. The disc even has a prominent Blu-ray logo on it!

[Iceman_II]

Anyone else notice that they put a maroon bar across the top of the sd-dvd package, I think they did it just to screw with the minds of the HD-DVD fanbois!

[DTMoney84]

Originally Posted by BlackMamba

Highdefdigest posted their review - (4 PQ, 4.5 AQ)

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/casinoroyale.html

I am very willing to bet that the PQ on this will deserve better than a 4/5 score. I can only imagine how much this release is killing the HD camp.

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by Iceman_II

Anyone else notice that they put a maroon bar across the top of the sd-dvd package, I think they did it just to screw with the minds of the HD-DVD fanbois!

Well, technically it would work in a HD DVD player.

And if you're drunk enough it's HD quality!

[shamus]

Originally Posted by PeterTHX

Well, technically it would work in a HD DVD player.

And if you're drunk enough it's HD quality!

Easy Robert!!!

[Rup_Muk]

Originally Posted by Shin-Ra

It's done it!

Just saw that Casino Royale is #17 in Amazon (US) ranking!!! YESSSSS!

[Iceman_II]

Stupid question...

On the Amazon UK site they are offering a special deal on Casino Royale when you purchase it along with a 60Gig PS3...

I thought Sony was including Casino Royal WITH the PS3???

[Maximus]

Originally Posted by Iceman_II

Stupid question...

On the Amazon UK site they are offering a special deal on Casino Royale when you purchase it along with a 60Gig PS3...

I thought Sony was including Casino Royal WITH the PS3???

Sony are sending out a CR BD to the first 500,000 people who sign up their PS3 to the online services (i.e. hand over credit card details, and home address). The Amazon deal is a bit of a ripoff, but I am sure that some people don't know that they will get CR free.

[DTMoney84]

Any guesses as to what next weeks Blu-ray to HD-DVD sales ratio's will be?? hahahaha. My guess is around 4.5:1

[Scorxpion]

Another review from DVDfile.com shows Casino Royale is top notch in PQ and SQ.

I'm just waiting my copy to be delivered from Amazon.It's gonna takes some time but sure i will post my own review

Another one from digitalaudiovideo.com "The Blu-ray is presented in 2.40:1 widescreen and encoded at 1080p/ AVC MPEG-4. This is a reference disk, hands down. Absolutely every scene is pristine and perfect. The colors, the black detail- everything is mind blowing. The Aston Martin looks amazing in high definition. I've gotta get me one of those. There is no chroma noise, no film grain- there are no problems. Audio is uncompressed PCM 5.1 surround, and it felt just like it did in the movie theater. The bass is heavy, the music kicks. Dialogue is never garbled, and always clear even with all of the background sounds. This is a very immersive transfer"

[The Big Blue]

Originally Posted by Scorxpion

Another one from digitalaudiovideo.com *snip*

"no film grain"

Huh?