DVDTOWN.com

[bbg]

http://www.dvdtown.com/messageboard/

This site could use some Blu-ray education. While it pretends to be format neutral it seems that it is a heavily HD DVD biased site. I've been watching the chats going on there for some time now and are thinking of making a free account to help support the few Blu-ray supporters that are getting shelled by HD DVD fanatics.

Thought it was worth mentioning.

[JayAuritt]

Originally Posted by bbg

http://www.dvdtown.com/messageboard/

This site could use some Blu-ray education. While it pretends to be format neutral it seems that it is a heavily HD DVD biased site. I've been watching the chats going on there for some time now and are thinking of making a free account to help support the few Blu-ray supporters that are getting shelled by HD DVD fanatics.

Thought it was worth mentioning.

I stopped accessing DVDTown over a year ago - not because of it's obvious and misguided HD-DUD bias, but because the morons they have writing for them wouldn't know a good movie, or a well-made disc, if their lives depended on it. And, to top it off, I think everyone who works for them flunked high school english.

[Blu Titan]

Are you serious? Are there people out there still proping HD DUD? What can we say..about that? sshhhhhh.

[bbg]

LOL - yeah they're still trying to say that it isn't over.

It's pretty sad and funny at the same time!

I've read a bunch of posts there of people asking which Blu-ray player they should get, and talking about returning their HD DVD players. When I see those posts and then I see people telling them to stick with HD DVD I think it's pretty messed up. So I think mostly for that reason I'll be putting in my 2 cents there.

But yeah, given that Blu-ray has really won this war it might not even be worth the effort of putting the DVDTown people in their place ... though it might be fun to

[Musashi]

Look up on their heading bar, where it lists sponsors. One of the sponsors is Toshiba/HPG, so yes, they are biased, hipocritical, and not worth looking at.

[shamus]

I removed them from my favorites back when they said this about Black Hawk Down...

Audio:
Previous SD versions had good distribution across the speakers and a robust sound, but the transfer to Blu-ray disc of the uncompressed PCM English 5.1 audio was done at a lower volume than most of the Blu-rays (and even SDs) I've reviewed. Compared to other six-channel Blu-ray soundtracks, this one just doesn't have the boom and resonance. Obviously, the original source masters aren't of the same quality as some of the better Blu-ray releases. That's disappointing, since "Black Hawk Down" won an Oscar for Sound. Other options include English and French Dolby Digital 5.1, with subtitles in English, English SDH, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, and Thai.

http://www.dvdtown.com/reviews/black-hawk-down/4110/2

Of course their preference to HD-DVD helped a bit too!