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I have watched Apple closely for many years now, and most of the time these analysts and leaks - especially this far ahead of a new phone - may have the right info, but jump to wildly incorrect conclusions. What I have read in sources I trust is that the 2018 iPhone lineup will look like the...

3D is a must for me as well - it really is a great experience, and it's disappointing that it seems to be fading away (not that every "3D" movie is worth it, but when done right it's awesome). I'll also be very curious how the HDR performance is on these. I have a 3D capable HD Optoma and just...

I just finally got around to watching Blue - wow, what an improvement over a DVD I loved. The video quality was of course better, but my favorite improvement were the subtitles. They always seemed too high up on the picture in the original version. Now they're at the bottom of the frame...

All good points David. It's a little different now because people are more aware of film preservation, and we have the technology to do it well. With Star Wars though, all of this additional tinkering doesn't bother me in the least. He can mess with them as much as he wants, they're already...

I have to say, this is one welcome change. The TPM Yoda has always looked like Yoda's deranged uncle to me. I don't know what happened when they made that puppet. In one of the docs Lucas sounds kind of exasperated and says something like "Well I guess he changes his appearance every 10 years or...

That is frightfully insulting to a huge number of artists that pour their heart into their work. Are there bad special effects done just to turn a quick buck? Of course there are. Plenty. But there were back in "the good old days" before all these soulless computers took over. Guess what, the...

Has anyone anywhere confirmed digital Yoda in TPM? I know it's assumed, but, well...

I believe the lightsaber color timing so talked about is closer to the original theatrical release. I found, way back when the DVD's were released in 2004, an old newsgroup post from 1983 complaining about how it was Luke's saber blocking Vader. The only version I've ever seen that this is...

I saw Blu-Rays on sale at the local dollar store today. Granted, one of them was Crank 2: High Voltage... but still, it surprised the hell out of me. If that doesn't signal blu's acceptance as a mainstream format, I don't know what does. For me, Blu-Ray has (much to my wife's chagrin) greatly...

I watched the commentary with Jackson, Walsh and Boyens on the 2nd half of ROTK, and they all pretty openly mocked the scene that opens the disc, where the ghost army attacks the pirates. It was pretty funny actually, but really drove home how these are not the filmmakers preferred versions...

I'd be interested to see the merry split screen done with rotk:te and fotr:te... The caps of the flashback between the TEs of TTT and FOTR (first page of the thread) show there have always been color timing differences between the two (with FOTR greener). But I'm not interested enough to do it...

Why should HTF be immune to the long Internet tradition of beating a dead horse? The discussion fascinates me, though there's really nothing new that can be said. The color timing for FOTR is clearly different than any previous release on disc. Also clear is that the flashback scenes in TTT...

Careful, maybe the new one looks even worse ;)

I maintain that the theatrical versions are ultimately better films than the EE's; though there is tons of stuff in the EE's that I love, there's also a bit that just feels wrong. I watch them about equally. So my hesitation with these isn't that they're the theatricals, I without a doubt need...

I don't see the big deal, honestly. Why would they not work? Is the player going to somehow know there's a DVD on the other side instead of a label and not play the disc because it's offended? None of my old DVD flippers ever failed. I don't display my discs outside of their cases so the...

You guys are killing me. I'm trying to cut down on the number of Blu Rays I buy that I already own on DVD. And here I go reading this thread. I mean, the DVD still looks good, right? If I watch it I won't be pining for the BD, right? Bah. Why do my hobbies have to require so much cash and...

Quote: While all true, I know MPEG artifacts when I see them and the TNG sets are full of them. So while they may not gain resolution from a BD release, they could crank up the bitrate with the new codecs and there would be a giant leap in quality, I am sure of it. Not that I would buy them...

One thing that I think gets overlooked is that while, of course, the higher resolution makes for a more detailed picture, what's really as important is the higher bitrate, and thus less MPEG compression artifacts. It has always perplexed me that people yell and scream about low bitrate audio...

I used to have the problem of missing timecodes on DVD all the time for certain titles. It was consistent across multiple players, and those same titles still behave oddly on my Sony BDP-S350. The Monty Python Series Set comes to mind as one that has issues. There are others too but my mind...

You mean there aren't HUGE tracks of flat, brown grasslands right outside the Air and Space Museum in DC? Huh. Like I said earlier, it's a bad movie. Probably the worst movie I like :)

I have the IMAX version (excuse me, "Big Screen" version... did IMAX refuse usage of their name to Walmart?) and thought the bouncing between "big" and normal was much more jarring than it was in The Dark Knight. TF2 does a LOT of bouncing between stuff that was shot in large format and stuff...

Watched this the other night and was also happy to see the video quality was close to perfect. My one complaint about the disc would be the special features... a direct port of the 1997 featurettes, so there's just nothing new here. Not a surprise, I know, but I would've loved a documentary...

Ordered from amazon this morning, so glad the issues turned out to be nonexistent. A little sad to retire the original, as it was THE first DVD I bought, but its time has come. Screenshots are GREAT to point out problems people spot on a transfer while watching the film, but not a great place...

I was most anxious to hear about how Generations looked, as both previous DVD release's video quality were unmitigated disasters. It looked like it had been scanned at a higher resolution then downconverted without any sort of filter (i.e. as if they just tossed out every other scanline without...

Boy, those comparisons at DVD Beaver are startling. The last time I watched this on DVD (not too long ago) I did think the colors looked a bit drab, and wondered if it was what it looked like in theaters. It sure looks likes they punched it up... but yikes, that shot of the eye is disturbing...

I can't imagine Ridley Scott will stand for this... he really is a crazy perfectionist. I hope he throws a fit and gets an all out replacement program going.

This was THE first DVD I bought, in may of '98, in order to try out my new Encore DXR2 decoder card that had S-video out on it. I had a 20 foot S-Video cable running from my computer room to my TV in my apartment, and was blown away by the picture. I'm a little harder to please now, but I too...

Ah yes, that was 800.com. I got Star Trek: First Contact, Sleepless In Seattle and As Good As It Gets for $1 shipped. Astonishing. I believe I ordered in december of '98, and they showed up a few weeks later. It almost felt bad about it, like I had scammed them. I also very rarely paid more than...

I could see high quality downloading or streaming movies replacing all of my renting... it would just be a more convenient version of Netflix... but never for owning. I like my collection of physical media; the only thing I can see replacing it would be if I could store it all on a media server...

I'm curious too... I have my eye on this. It's "only" 1280 pixels across, but most reviews I've found have been good and it seems like a nice option over the 720p plasmas that are in this size & price range.