Ice Age: The Meltdown review

[Jeff®]

Ice Age: The Meltdown

"This transfer's most immediately striking aspect is how three-dimensional it looks. Just about every shot has a wonderful sense of depth to it, with excellent use of that foreground and background that really accentuates the lush arctic landscapes. Of course the "source material" is absolutely perfect, with a crystal-clear clarity not degraded by any uses of artificial film grain or other digital tweaks. Blacks are rich and pure, and the slightly high-contrast cast well-suited to a film whose primary color is white. Hues are still very lush, especially the vivid orange-brown animal furs and icicle-cool blues."

"...as of this writing no current Blu-ray players or A/V receivers offer DTS-HD decoding...there is no way to access the DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on this disc at full resolution. So what you are going to hear without DTS-HD decoding is the core, lossy DTS soundtrack at a healthy 1.5mbps. But no worries -- 'Ice Age: The Meltdown' sounds almost as good as it looks. The punchy sound deign and bright dynamics makes for a downright cheerful experience. I enjoyed the cute, chirpy discrete effects in the rears, and John Powell's upbeat music score nicely bleeds to the rears but never overpowers the action. "

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