The General HD Releases Thread!

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 20 Dec 2006, 21:47

What not at all?

Nice to hear Salty.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 21 Dec 2006, 01:00

bradavon wrote:It's annoying La Haine aside (which is coming) all AFAIK Films are Hollywood ones

Wolf Creek (Aussie film on Weinstein HD-DVD) and The Descent (pom film on Lion's Gate BRD) aren't Hollywood. Also Saw 1 is technically an Australian film and was made with independent financing (the sequels are all studio films though).

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 21 Dec 2006, 11:24

Fair point. Okay more non-English fodder.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 25 Dec 2006, 23:50

some interesting releases from france. gone for Carpenter's the Fog,one of my favourites.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 26 Dec 2006, 01:35

saltysam wrote:gone for Carpenter's the Fog,one of my favourites.

Yeah, that's a terrific film. A superbly made, suspenseful ghost film with a terrific score by Carpenter.

It's really underrated - people dismiss it saying "fog and pirates, not scary at all".

slasher13 · Post by **slasher13** » 26 Dec 2006, 13:29

saltysam wrote:some interesting releases from france. gone for Carpenter's the Fog,one of my favourites.

Here here, the original fog is an excellent movie, haunting score.. Very underrated movie

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 26 Dec 2006, 15:09

Agreed. It's one of my favourite Carpenter films.

Salty: Where did you buy them and how much? Is there any list for French HD-DVDs? More to the point non-USA/UK releases?

Has anyone seen any Combo's outside The States?

Right now those are all that interest me. MovieTyme has sent me a £2 voucher code so I may pick up "Goodnight Night, and Good Luck". I've asked when it expires, it just says "in 1 month".

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 29 Dec 2006, 21:27

i've now managed to watch 4 HD-DVDS my opinions so far:
Fearless: gorgeous,flawless transfer
The Hulk: sensational transfer,blows the dvd away and that was good,
Corpse Bride: The best i've seen yet,almost 3-d like in some scenes.
An American Werewolf In London: A bit disappointing, this movie has never looked good even from it's early vhs releases, while the HD-DVD is clearly better than the SE dvd the step up in quality is not great.Not a HD-DVD i'd use to show off the format.great movie though.

captainjoe · Post by **captainjoe** » 30 Dec 2006, 16:59

I finally decided to go ahead and get a HD-DVD player. It's amazing how much better it is. I thought The Searchers was a fantastic transfer. So was King Kong and Terminator 3. I was also surprised by how good Army of Darkness looked.
Full Metal Jacket was ok but not to good because of a de-interlacing method WB used. But it is nice to see it properly matted in 1.78:1. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was good, but long shots aren't so hot.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 30 Dec 2006, 19:23

watched my first sd-dvd on the toshiba earlier,the big boss pe,looked the best i've ever seen it,seems to upscale standard dvds nicely.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 02 Jan 2007, 19:22

I'm hearing that too. TBB: PE looks tremendous.

Did you end up selling your old DVD player?

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 02 Jan 2007, 22:06

No, there's no hack as yet for SD dvds so i'm using my multi-region dvd recorder/hdd to play region 1 dvds through component.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 05 Jan 2007, 18:51

Pity you're losing Upscaling for R1 content. What one do you have? Me I have a Pioneer DV540 HD/DVD Freeview Recorder.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 06 Jan 2007, 19:19

it's a Targa, had it about 2 years and has proved the most reliable dvd recorder i've owned.excellent picture on region 1 through component.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 06 Jan 2007, 19:20

watched the Fog hd-dvd,at first was a bit underwhelmed by the transfer but tried the mgm region 1 to compare and the hd version blows it out of the water.easily the best i've ever seen this dark,grainy movie.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 07 Jan 2007, 03:50

You'll have some collection by the time most of us get HD. Are you selling your old DVDs?

You can get HDMI Upscaling DVDr/HD Recorders now, not that I'm bothering in the slightest. Progressive is fine for Recorded material. I already own a DVD Player (which will be replaced with HD eventually) for DVD watching.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 07 Jan 2007, 15:06

Hey salty, do the Frenchie discs have removable subs?

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 08 Jan 2007, 13:57

Well Eva i only have 1 french release ( The Fog) and that has removable subs so i imagine all the studio canal titles will. Also there is an english menu option when the disc loads up.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 08 Jan 2007, 19:58

Just received Clerks 2 hd-dvd interesting that it's a 2 disc set,only other 2 disc release i know of is mi:3

the transfer on clerks 2 is solid but not great tbh, not that much of an upgrade on the region 1.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 08 Jan 2007, 20:38

MI:3 is a two disc HD-DVD really. The only other one I know if is World Trade Center.

Are the extras in HD? I presume they must be to need two HD-DVDs. You're getting some collection there Salty, have you upgraded any DVDs yet?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 08 Jan 2007, 20:51

World Trade Center

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 08 Jan 2007, 20:57

You're wrong it's Stone's sequel to Wall Street

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 09 Jan 2007, 10:58

Doh now you edited your post, mine doesnt make any sense

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 09 Jan 2007, 12:54

Did Brad use the Pom spelling of 'Center'?

The HD-DVD release of Warren Beatty's communist epic Reds occupies two discs, prolly cuz it's really long. It's 2* HD-30's. We prolly won't see 3 hours+ films occupying single disc releases until they roll out HD-45's at least, or improve the compression to picture quality quota of the current codecs significantly.

bradavon wrote:Are the extras in HD?

Probably. I recall that Smith shot his vlog in HD.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 09 Jan 2007, 18:53

Thanks Eva. That's a shame when triple layer (51Gb) is out now.

EvaUnit02 wrote:Did Brad use the Pom spelling of 'Center'?

Nope as that's not it's title (you guys use it too

). I called it Wall Trade Center

I've just ordered "Good Night, and Good Luck" from MovieTyme (using a £2 code they e-mailed me).

The DVD Talk review says it's a HD-DVD15/DVD5 so single layer both sides. I know it's only 93 minutes but even so. Still it gets a decent AV review so I guess it doesn't matter.

The UK R2 has DTS btw but I doubt it adds much and I'd prefer the Combo.

p.s - Oh and here is a BD vs. HD-DVD review of it: http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=23653