Thirith on 3/3/2009 at 08:28
If they had one region that included Europe and the US, I wouldn't mind. I'd be getting a Blu-ray player right now. But I want to be able to buy Blu-rays here as well as special editions and collections coming out in the States. Until I can do that (without having to pay considerably more) I'm not upgrading.
Scots Taffer on 11/3/2009 at 05:16
Decided to pick up the theatrical cut blu-ray when I saw it pretty cheap at the store today, I remember some time ago deciding that while the extras were okay for some padding if you want a longer T2 experience, I already think it's a bit of a bloated action movie in the first place and prefer it as lean as it can possibly be.
Also got Matrix Reloaded to see if it's as bad as I remember
EvaUnit02 on 12/3/2009 at 14:11
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
Decided to pick up the theatrical cut blu-ray when I saw it pretty cheap at the store today, I remember some time ago deciding that while the extras were okay for some padding if you want a longer T2 experience, I already think it's a bit of a bloated action movie in the first place and prefer it as lean as it can possibly be.
The original North American Blu-ray of T2 was poor. It was on a single layer disc (BD25), with a bloated MPEG2 encode and a lossy DVD quality DTS track. The film's quality will suffer.
MPEG2's compression algorithms are highly outdated, bloated and inefficient compared to MPEG4 (AVC) and VC1. It doesn't have much room to breathe on a BD25.
rachel on 12/3/2009 at 14:36
I recently found out while in France that some Blu-Ray are marked as region A, B and C, a convoluted way to say "hai! zone-free disc here!". (gotta be careful as my PS3 is from the States). It's a pain to find out though because many stores conveniently put their stickers right where that info is and it's impossible to see it without ripping the fracking thing open. :mad:
On the other hand it made Casino Royale , Black Hawk Down and French Connection enter my collection much sooner than expected. Aces :cool:
EvaUnit02 on 12/3/2009 at 14:44
Quote Posted by raph
I recently found out while in France that some Blu-Ray are marked as region A, B
and C, a convoluted way to say "hai! zone-free disc here!". (gotta be careful as my PS3 is from the States). It's a pain to find out though because many stores conveniently put their stickers right where that info is and it's impossible to see it without ripping the fracking thing open. :mad:
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http://bluray.liesinc.net/) *cough*
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http://dvdcompare.net/) *ahem*
rachel on 12/3/2009 at 15:52
Hey, I never said I was a genius.
Scots Taffer on 12/3/2009 at 22:54
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
The original North American Blu-ray of T2 was poor. It was on a single layer disc (BD25), with a bloated MPEG2 encode and a lossy DVD quality DTS track. The film's quality will suffer.
MPEG2's compression algorithms are highly outdated, bloated and inefficient compared to MPEG4 (AVC) and VC1. It doesn't have much room to breathe on a BD25.
I've not yet come across a split-blu-ray movie - do you mean a Part 1 and a Part 2? Surely that's not necessary. There's up to 50gb of info on there, isn't there?
Also, I discovered last night that it is the director's cut. It doesn't actually say that on the box, hence I assumed it was the theatrical release.
Still not sure if I'm happy or unhappy about this.
FWIW the quality seems very good but not eye-popping.
EvaUnit02 on 13/3/2009 at 02:22
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
I've not yet come across a split-blu-ray movie - do you mean a Part 1 and a Part 2? Surely that's not necessary. There's up to 50gb of info on there, isn't there?
No. You know how there's single-sided single layer (DVD5, holds ~4.5GB) and single-sided dual layer DVDs (DVD9, hold ~9GB)? It's a similar deal with Blu-ray.
A dual-layer BD holds 50GB. Many early Blu-ray releases (like the Lionsgate North American T2 release) only came on single layer discs (BD25, holds 25GB).
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Also, I discovered last night that it is the director's cut. It doesn't actually say that on the box, hence I assumed it was the theatrical release.
Ah, was it put out by Universal or Optimum? The European/Australian BD was a good disc released when the format had matured, no need to worry about what I said. BD50, VC-1 encoded, DTS-HD Master lossless audio.
EvaUnit02 on 14/5/2009 at 10:50
...and the transfer on the new Skynet Edition is a DNR'ed to hell piece of shit. In conclusion, the old barebones Blu-ray releases are better than this garbage.
Get the US Lionsgate barebones release for the Theatrical Cut and European/Australasian Studio Canal/Optimum/Universal barebones release for the Special Edition Cut.
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http://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=130092#130092)
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The image is made shitty, its Noise Reduced and has a grey mist over the image as they look to have increased the brightness.
Compared to the old transfer its easy to see which looks best. Unless you love having all the grain sucked out of the picture and people made to look more plastic which is gettig to be the norm for some compaines in HD.
There is some good talk about it over here, scroll down to the bottom for a funny Arnie comparison image Very Happy shows you a little of what they have done.
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http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1145340&page=3)
But most reviews/forums/comparisons seem to be saying the same thing that the new Skynet edition is not the best looking the film has been so far.
Which in my eyes is a joke as I dont give a shit about the extras, I want the film looking perfect and this is not even close to that sadly.
