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July 29, 2008 Releases​

The Band's Visit
Beowulf : Directors Cut (TruHD audio!!! WOOT!)
The Big White
Clear and Present Danger
Dark City
Doomsday (not a bad movie...looks phenomenal!)
Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle (Unrated?)
Harold and Kumar Go To Guantanemo Bay (Unrated)
Human Body : Pushing The Limits
Hunt For Red October
Lost Boys
Lost Boys : The Tribe (Is this a sequel or a prequel? Anyone)
Mortuary
Never back Down
Patriot Games
Perhaps Love
Robin Hood : Season 1
Salvage
Shine A Light
Stargate : Continuum
Sum Of All Fears
Tiger Blade
Top Gun (Wooo!!!)
Vengeance

Itll be updated every week, sorry guys. Ive had a very busy two weeks @_@



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HDM reviews and new:
High Def Digest​


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Region Code Listing
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[quote name='CocheseUGA']I stopped watching after the second episode. Did it get better? Did they actually start having continuity?[/QUOTE]

no idea, i only watched the first episode last summer online

forgot it was on until it was almost done
 
where is prison break s2 on blu

1 is out and 3 is coming out, but nothing on 2 :(

amazon also has smallville s7 up for 55.95

thinking WHV might be cheaper for that one though

sony bringing a bunch of horror on july 22nd (urban legend, i know what you did last summer, i still know, exorcism of emily rose - i have the import and the quality is good)
 
[quote name='dallow']Yeah, Fox's price is probably a lot higher than that.[/quote]It is only eight episodes long, dallow.

Probably on 2 BR's, with 40-odd minutes per episode.
 
[quote name='CocheseUGA']I stopped watching after the second episode. Did it get better? Did they actually start having continuity?[/quote]

i enjoyed it. it got better as it went along and i was actually disappointed that it ended at 8 episodes. it got very violent which is awesome since its on network TV.

i'll have to pick up this disc.
 
prison break s3 was only 13 episodes and the mSRP on the blu ray is 79.99

don't think we'll be seeing too big of a discount for strike shortened shows

only way that sarah connor price could be real is if they're hoping to promote the show with a low price which is very un fox like

even firefly which is old is $90 msrp
 
[quote name='LinkinPrime']:whistle2:k...well I got time to think about it.[/QUOTE]


can anyone confirm the qquality of this show? 28 seems like a decent deal I could even flip if I hated the show.

Also, anyone know of a deal for rambo 1-3 and the 2008 rambo?
 
[quote name='CocheseUGA']3x the price? No thanks.[/quote]

But it's 3x the price for 6x the resolution of the original. Seems like a steal to me. :cool:
 
Yeah, there's more content in that set than in Planet Earth, and that cost more MSRP.
I've never seen Firefly but people seem to love it.
 
preordered sarah connor as well... i checked on dvdtalk and they mentioned it may not get released until august. So this may be a lengthy preorder.
 
Some nice player news:

First up today, there's some good Blu-ray hardware news. EngadgetHD is reporting that Samsung's BD-P1500 Blu-ray Disc player is now on shelves in select Wal-Mart stores.
That's not the good news. The player is profile 2.0 BD-Live compatible, and is supposed to bitstream all the advanced audio codecs up to 7.1.
That's not the good news either. Here's the good news: It's selling for just $349!

That makes it by far the cheapest stand-alone BD-Live ready player available. It's also likely that the BD-P1500 will be on sale later in the year for under $300
Click to expand...
 
[quote name='dallow']Some nice player news:[/quote]

still dont see the point in buying a stand-alone blu-ray player when you got the ps3 for $399 that does everything the best, easy to update, game machine, and one of the greatest upscalers.
 
i rarely play video games now and if i do its usually on DS or 360 so if i could get a cheaper stand alone than ps3 i would get it

also my ps3 is a little noisy since its a launch model (20 gig) and getting old i guess, though i read the newer ones are really quiet

the one thing i don't like about the article is how he says it will probably be $300 at christmas because a) he doesn't know that b) some people will actually wait until christmas and if its not $300 get mad
 
Just for those who are vehemently opposed to having the PS3 as a BD player.
Or those who NEED a player to bitstream the HD sound formats.
 
[quote name='dallow']
I've never seen Firefly but people seem to love it.[/quote]

You're gorram right we do! We love it so much we actually got a theatrical movie out of it for closure.
 
[quote name='BlaculaDave']But it's 3x the price for 6x the resolution of the original. Seems like a steal to me. :cool:[/QUOTE]

SDTV = don't care.

$60+ for a season of a show is not value-pricing. But there's that issue I have with TV on DVD pricing in general.

Now if it came with Serenity on BD included? We could talk. But even then, I have it on HD.
 
maybe hd isn't for you right now

seems like you never have anything positive to say about it or the pricing

wait a couple years?
 
[quote name='rsigley']maybe hd isn't for you right now

seems like you never have anything positive to say about it or the pricing

wait a couple years?[/QUOTE]

I buy ones that are cheap, or relatively close to SD releases I don't currently own.

It's mainly a price vs features thing for me. I think almost all HD/BD releases are too expensive, even with the upgraded picture. Isn't cheaper prices something we all want?

The one nice thing about HD and the combo discs was that you were slowly integrating people into hi-def. If Sony, et al would consider lower price points for BD titles, they'd gain more marketshare, and be on the way. Not everyone who owns a PS3 has a HDTV, and the real issue with them not selling the discs isn't the lack of the HDTVs, its the price.

The average PS3 owner would look at it like this:
Hey, Blu-ray...only $5 more? I've got a PS3, that plays Blu-ray! In for one!1!110101

Whereas now, you have titles that go for 3x the price, and for 1080i tv owners, hold little to no reason for an upgrade.

I feel like I'm the person they should most want to have: the guy who bought the game system, and will go forward with future-proofing (as much as you can with optical media) his movie library.
 
Can someone explain this to me. I do not fully understand this. I have a 65" Mitsubishi 1080P DLP HDTV and a PS3 as my Blu-Ray player, and I'm not sure why it is like this. Some movies take up the entire screen and some have the bars on the top and bottom.
 
An Image was posted on the Amazon product page of the SCC(BR) IDK if it is the final or even if it is legit but I think it looks pretty good.

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[quote name='aea414']An Image was posted on the Amazon product page of the SCC(BR) IDK if it is the final or even if it is legit but I think it looks pretty good.

51ZuptwYWmL._SS400_.jpg
[/quote]

looks good but its lacking one thing
SUMMER GLAU
 
[quote name='WiiDSmoker']Can someone explain this to me. I do not fully understand this. I have a 65" Mitsubishi 1080P DLP HDTV and a PS3 as my Blu-Ray player, and I'm not sure why it is like this. Some movies take up the entire screen and some have the bars on the top and bottom.[/QUOTE]

Wow. Hello J6P.
 
So do you guys think that whenever Harold & Kumar 2 comes out on DVD that New Line will release it and the first one on :br: ?

Because I just realized I don't have the first one, but I don't want to buy it on DVD only to have a :br: version come out 2 or 3 months after.
 
That's an insta-buy from me. I was wanting to pick up the DVD version from Target for $10, but never saw it again.

Hopefully it will be available in the
 
looks like a lot of edge enhancement in that shot

i got the national treasure amazon exclusive 2 pack today

all they did was shrink wrap both movies together

dunno how you can really call that exclusive
 
yea just one picture, but it does look like he's not a part of the picture and is standing outside of it to me


ymmy on this one, just stopped by walmart and wrestlemania blu-ray was marked $19.99

didn't see what it rang up on the register, but i ended up getting it for 19.99+tax
 
[quote name='dallow']http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/anamorphic/aspectratios/widescreenorama.html[/quote]

I have always understood the difference between the two, and the difference between 1.85 and 2.35... but...

Could someone explain to me what benefits there are in shooting a film in one or the other?... just to get more scene?

I only ask this because the whole Pirates trilogy was on Starz HD this weekend, and I noticed that the first movie filled my whole screen (which i assumed was 1.85) and the second two had black bars...

Why would they shoot the sequels differently? and what's the real benefit....

AND my SD DVD box of Pirates 1 says it's shot in 2.35 but there were no bars on the HD presentation...

These things leave me a tad confused even though I grasp most of the reasons and ways to shoot movies.
 
[quote name='DestroVega']I have always understood the difference between the two, and the difference between 1.85 and 2.35... but...

Could someone explain to me what benefits there are in shooting a film in one or the other?... just to get more scene?

I only ask this because the whole Pirates trilogy was on Starz HD this weekend, and I noticed that the first movie filled my whole screen (which i assumed was 1.85) and the second two had black bars...

Why would they shoot the sequels differently? and what's the real benefit....

AND my SD DVD box of Pirates 1 says it's shot in 2.35 but there were no bars on the HD presentation...

These things leave me a tad confused even though I grasp most of the reasons and ways to shoot movies.[/quote]Just depends on the kind of scope and range the director wants to capture when shooting the film.
It's a creative decision.

So sometimes sequels are shot differently.
As for the HD presentation, I've seen them crop it slightly so it fills up a whole 16:9 TV (actually the zoom it in slightly so the bars don't show), best bet for original aspect ratio is the movie on disc.
 
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