The Road - Page 3 - Blu-ray Forum

General Vyper · 05-17-2010, 08:10 PM

Watched this on Saturday, bit boring but quite enjoyed it, PQ is nothing special for a blu but not bad either, I'd say 3/5, AQ is good with nice use of the surround, 4/5 but Viggo does mumble a lot so be prepared to crank it up to hear what he's on about.

SolutionbubbleS · 05-17-2010, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by SolutionbubbleS

Can someone with a BD-Drive report the discsize (best in bytes)? That would be great

Filesize of the feature film would be even better!

Thanks in advance
Bubbles

SORRY for my insisting, but if anyone could spare a little time to give me that information. That would be great...

Thanks in advance!

nightcrawler · 05-17-2010, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by bunkaroo

How would you rate the PQ? HDD gave the American disc 3/5 and that's a Sony distribution of a Weinstein title I believe. Since Icon released it in the UK I was hoping they have a different and better transfer.

Thought the PQ was pretty good. Not demo material, but plenty of detail of most shots. It's a very bleak/drab looking film anyway which doesn't help, but I wasn't disappointed with it.

SolutionbubbleS · 05-18-2010, 12:04 PM

Concerning the technical parameters of the main feature, the US BD outperforms the UK.

This is obvious, because the US's size of the feature film on its own: ca. 29 GB (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-r...ad_blu-ray.htm) is bigger than the UK BD in total: 26,8 (http://www.avforums.com/forums/12160685-post37.html).

My take still is, that the main feature is identical on the UK and AU BD (http://www.cinemasquid.com/blu-ray/m...678&locale=all). So since both release have the commentary, the only relevant potential difference for the main feature is the stereotrack on the US (if the UK has that one too, even that falls away). The conclusion is, that the UK BD is a tad lower in videobitrate and about 1.5 Mbps lower in audiobitrate.

For me this leads to the US BD, since I do not care about differences in the Extras. But be aware that it is locked to Region A!

manicsounds · 05-18-2010, 02:38 PM

I went ahead and ordered the UK disc, and it already shipped. As long as it has the commentary track, then it is much better than the Australian disc, which is to be avoided, huh?

nitro64 · 05-20-2010, 04:00 PM

does this come with a slipcover in the uk?
thanks

Dwight Schrute · 05-20-2010, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by nitro64

does this come with a slipcover in the uk?
thanks

Yes.

But it's one of those ones that is cut off at the top.

General Vyper · 05-20-2010, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Dwight Schrute

Yes.

But it's one of those ones that is cut off at the top.

Only a couple of centimetres, so the blue bit of the box shows at the top.

Dwight Schrute · 05-20-2010, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by General Vyper

Only a couple of centimetres, so the blue bit of the box shows at the top.

I don't like them

TheDaVinci COD · 05-20-2010, 11:21 PM

Great movie and i thought the Blu-ray had reasonable PQ. Not good enough to show off my system but it was still impressive in parts. It's the same price as the DVD version in Sainsbury's (£11.99). I managed to get a copy for £10.80 though.... It helps having contacts who work in retail

blackbrains · 07-08-2010, 12:00 PM

Personally i think the road is beautiful, a type of perfect movie i loved it and its been getting steadily better since i watched it. More meaning in every square inch of film than the entire bulk of the book of eli.
Props on the awesome "transfer" from paper to film too, i wont see anything so accurate for a long time to come.

The Driver · 12-21-2011, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by SolutionbubbleS

Concerning the technical parameters of the main feature, the US BD outperforms the UK.

This is obvious, because the US's size of the feature film on its own: ca. 29 GB (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-r...ad_blu-ray.htm) is bigger than the UK BD in total: 26,8 (http://www.avforums.com/forums/12160685-post37.html).

Don't be silly. Just because it has a larger data size doesn't mean it's 'better'. Plenty examples of vastly smaller HDDVD single platter releases beating their larger file size Blu-ray counterparts.

Anyway, havng read the Uk release review @ http://www.avforums.com/movies/The-R...0/blu-ray.html the US disc certainly seems to be the best transfer https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-R.../10483/#Review

It's still very difficult to find other opinions though. Anyone seen both?

As much as I dislike this entire production I am going to reasses it. I like to give these smug religiously themed films a 2nd chance at xmas

05-20-2010, 04:00 PM	#46
nitro64 Active Member Member since:May 2010 Location:U.K :) Blu-ray collection:39 Trading Score:4	.. does this come with a slipcover in the uk? thanks

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05-17-2010, 08:10 PM	#41
General Vyper Active Member Member since:Mar 2009	Watched this on Saturday, bit boring but quite enjoyed it, PQ is nothing special for a blu but not bad either, I'd say 3/5, AQ is good with nice use of the surround, 4/5 but Viggo does mumble a lot so be prepared to crank it up to hear what he's on about.

05-18-2010, 12:04 PM	#44
SolutionbubbleS Active Member Member since:Nov 2009	Concerning the technical parameters of the main feature, the US BD outperforms the UK. This is obvious, because the US's size of the feature film on its own: ca. 29 GB (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-r...ad_blu-ray.htm) is bigger than the UK BD in total: 26,8 (http://www.avforums.com/forums/12160685-post37.html). My take still is, that the main feature is identical on the UK and AU BD (http://www.cinemasquid.com/blu-ray/m...678&locale=all). So since both release have the commentary, the only relevant potential difference for the main feature is the stereotrack on the US (if the UK has that one too, even that falls away). The conclusion is, that the UK BD is a tad lower in videobitrate and about 1.5 Mbps lower in audiobitrate. For me this leads to the US BD, since I do not care about differences in the Extras. But be aware that it is locked to Region A!

05-18-2010, 02:38 PM	#45
manicsounds Blu-ray Samurai Top contributor Member since:Oct 2009 Location:Tokyo 4K collection:227 Blu-ray collection:4992 Blu-ray reviews: 99	I went ahead and ordered the UK disc, and it already shipped. As long as it has the commentary track, then it is much better than the Australian disc, which is to be avoided, huh?

05-20-2010, 11:21 PM	#50
TheDaVinci COD Active Member Member since:May 2010 Location:Suffolk, England Blu-ray collection:2	Great movie and i thought the Blu-ray had reasonable PQ. Not good enough to show off my system but it was still impressive in parts. It's the same price as the DVD version in Sainsbury's (£11.99). I managed to get a copy for £10.80 though.... It helps having contacts who work in retail

07-08-2010, 12:00 PM	#51
blackbrains Active Member Member since:Feb 2010 Blu-ray collection:124	Personally i think the road is beautiful, a type of perfect movie i loved it and its been getting steadily better since i watched it. More meaning in every square inch of film than the entire bulk of the book of eli. Props on the awesome "transfer" from paper to film too, i wont see anything so accurate for a long time to come.

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