Shoot 'Em Up - New Line delivers a great high bitrate VC-1 encode

[bhampton]

They just need a FW update.

And you get a new tray mechanism in the mail I think.

It's a big FW update though.


-Brian

[Geech]

Originally Posted by cajmoyper

I'm looking forward to getting this one. I hope they don't skimp on the action. I've been a little dissappointed with New Line movie's storys so far. But if they can deliver on the action enough to compensate for a bad story, I'll like it just fine.

This movie is about 1 thing, Action

[xwingsct]

I saw the preview of the movie when I went to see The last Bourne movie.
Preview looks really good and I told my friends that we have to come back and see this movie and before you know it. It was gone.
I always get Clive Owen and Eric Bana mixed up. For some reason I always thought it was the same person.

[sonicbox]

Originally Posted by patrick99

No, it definitely DOES NOT.

The term "BD bit-rates" is really silly for VBR advanced codecs, but feel free to cling to that bitrate display, guys.

Hairspray has two encodes on BD, one with PIP and one without. But since the source of the movie is the same, the results are near identical except for the "sharp looking" PIP insert video. Don't blame the codec or the bitrate if you don't like the 'whole' look of the movie, blame the master given to the compressionist. Hairspray, as delivered, is fairly easy to compress effectively. Since Hairspray isn't my bag, I couldn't care less of course.

Happy New Year soon...

[C6 Z06]

Originally Posted by AlexanderG

Just finished watching Shoot 'Em Up on Blu Ray, as my local Wal Mart decided to sell it early along with War and Resident Evil 3.

Note: I'm using a Playstation 3 2.10 firmware with a calibrated Samsung LNT-4066F 40" 1080p HDTV with a viewing distance of about 5-6 feet.

The movie looks fantastic. Apparently New Line Cinema is doing different encodes for each format or doesn't intend on releasing this title on HD-DVD anytime soon, as frequent checks to the PS3 bitrate meter revealed that New Line didn't skimp on the bit budget whatsoever. I constantly saw Bitrates in the upper 20 mbps region, with it going to 35 frequently and even over 40 mbps on occassion.

The result is an extremely sharp transfer. The movie is VERY stylized with strong, bold colors that some may not really care for. Lots of greens/yellows/reds. Regardless, the colors pop like crazy, and for those of you that are familiar with the movie Clive's carrot is a strong vivid eye popping orange and the "Fuk u/Fuk u Too" scene at the beginning of the movie provides some nice strong reds. There is a light veil of grain that is revealed in shadows or areas with low light, but the grain is preserved VERY well with no banding or macroblocking.

As far as sound quality is concerned, New Line provided a DTS-MA track, which unfortunately my PS3 is unable to decode. But based off of the the 1.5 mbps DTS core track, it sounds great and it felt really nice to hear Nirvana's Breed through my system. Gunshots sound really full and deep as well.

Haven't had a chance to check the bonus features, but according to the back of the box, they are encoded in 1080p/1080i, so I can't wait to sit down and watch them too.

If there are any other questions, feel free to ask.

How would you compare this to say POTC's. The bonus features(some) look better than the movie in the PQ department.

[krinkle]

Maybe the reason this was encoded with bitrates too high for HD DVD, is that they know the movie is never going to be released on HD DVD.

[tru_to_blu]

New Line will bring blu to a new level.

[Scrapanatchi]

intressting this movie might become a TL-51, going by the logic that the 17gib a layer disc improves bitrates and is compitable/improves playback with all current players (hd dud )

still the bitrate tool isn't really acurate

[Minimejer05]

Originally Posted by tru_to_blu

New Line will bring blu to a new level.

Oh that would rock! Has New Line sided with Blu or HD yet?

[phloyd]

This is excellent news - I will have to get a copy and check it out.

Seriously, if Warner wants to compete well in the Blu-ray space, this is exactly how they need to do it. I am hopeful that this is not an isolated event!

[Leon Kennedy]

It's good to hear that this Blu-ray will not disappoint but sadly the movie itself might. I just watched this movie a few days back on DVD and it's not going to be part of my collection right now. Maybe as a BOGO but not a regular purchase.

[ryoohki]

HD DVD is limited to 28mibts PEAK for Video, Blu-Ray is limited to 40mbits Peak. No amount of space on HD DVD will ever compensate for that, they could do 28mbits CBR and that's all. Witch is already about 2 times better then what they do.

A BluRay Encode is an encode who peak higher then 30mbits..

[owa]

Originally Posted by AlexanderG

The movie looks fantastic. Apparently New Line Cinema is doing different encodes for each format or doesn't intend on releasing this title on HD-DVD anytime soon, as frequent checks to the PS3 bitrate meter revealed that New Line didn't skimp on the bit budget whatsoever. I constantly saw Bitrates in the upper 20 mbps region, with it going to 35 frequently and even over 40 mbps on occassion.

Yeah, I noticed that too and it was a pleasant surprise.

[sonicbox]

I saw this movie free in a theater (preview/test) and gave it fairly bad feedback. That doesn't matter, does it? We only care about bitrate.

[Azzkker]

i actually liked this movie. i plan to pick this up with war and resident evil 1 and 3 this week . also plan to get superbad at the BBY sale.

thanks
anthony

[dialog_gvf]

Originally Posted by Minimejer05

Oh that would rock! Has New Line sided with Blu or HD yet?

Neither. But, new releases are always going to be problem for them and HD DVD. Rigjt now they are releasing temporary Blu exclusive for new releases.

Gary

[owa]

Originally Posted by Azzkker

i actually liked this movie. i plan to pick this up with war and resident evil 1 and 3 this week . also plan to get superbad at the BBY sale.

thanks
anthony

Just got finished watching it and same here, I liked it. It's definitely an over-the-top action movie with a weird sense of humor...kind of like the humor in movies like Pulp Fiction, Crank, Natural Born Killers, etc.

[blitz6speed]

I will pick this up at best buy this week.

[sirk]

I just finished watching it and loved it. It really made me laugh.

[cajmoyper]

On a ridiculous level, this movie was on par with Charlie's Angels. But it was awesome!!!