Paramount Comparison

[Josh]

http://www.dvdtown.com/article/param...titlesre/4091/

What is impressive is that Paramount has nearly duplicated their efforts by brining these titles from their 30GB HD-DVD homes to their smaller constrained 25GB Blu-Ray platters. The image quality is so close, that it is hard to tell if one is better than the other. I'm not going to even attempt to pick a winner between the two formats on picture quality. To fit the films into a smaller space, Paramount has squeezed in smaller Dolby Digital soundtracks. This does result in a slightly less vibrant sound experience, but the difference is not all that dramatic. If anything, HD-DVD comes out the slight winner in this comparison based upon the soundtrack differences. Supplements are identical between the two releases. I would have preferred for a different set of three titles, but this is only the start of support for the format from Paramount. It is comforting to see that Paramount has released high quality Blu-Ray releases that are not as marred by poor quality as the initial efforts by the Blu-Ray only studios.

Good to hear. These were rumored to be MPEG-2. Has that been confirmed or denied?