Bullets 'n' Babes

We have a saying in France:
"Only idiots never change their minds."

In other words, the cat-man has gone Blu.
Already bought a BD-Rom drive, all I need now is a standalone and an HDMI switch.

Are you getting Flashpoint Tom

tom2681 wrote:In other words, the cat-man has gone Blu.

Huh?

tom2681 wrote:Already bought a BD-Rom drive, all I need now is a standalone and an HDMI switch.

I'm surprised you've bought into HD this quickly.

@Salty:
FlashPoint: no. Didn't like it that much.
Infernal Affairs: yes.
Invisible Target: possibly.
Initial D: for sure.

Brad wrote:I'm surprised you've bought into HD this quickly.

If HD is the way forward, then I'll go with HD.
Still perfectly satisfied with DVD, though.

Vista is the way forward but you've not got that

I thought you weren't going to buy the "Invisible Target" DVD? Presumably HD is the same:

https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/ ... 8327#98327

tom2681 wrote:Initial D: for sure.

I see this is now out on HK BD. I wonder how it differs from the USA BD:

http://www.dddhouse.com/v3/product_deta ... uctID=8193

Re: Invisible Target:

I still maintain it's a pretty average flick, but it's got great stunts (which are going to look even better in HD), and good actors.

Like I said:

Only watch this flick if you've got nothing better to do (or if you want to add another random HK action film to your DVD shelf)

And that's exactly what I'm going to do.

Does that below with -

Seen it. Felt like I had already seen it before (a hundred times). Will not buy the DVD.

Don't get Tom's love for Initial D-very average. so another bulleteer goes HD. 8)

Love the music, love the editing, love Anthony Wong, Kenny Bee and Chapman To.
Hate Jay Chou's and Ann Suzuki's dubbed voices, hate the plot.

But the good outweighs the bad IMO. Much better than that Fast 'n Furious shite.

You love Chapman To???

:hippy2:

Toshiba Officially Drops HD DVD

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/ ... D_DVD/1477

Although I'm disappointed that the inferior, more expensive, incomplete, DRM-infested and region-coded format has won, I'm glad the war is over.

*Off to buy a Sony BDP-S300 standalone player*

tom2681 wrote:*Off to buy a Sony BDP-S300 standalone player*

Make sure that it's a Region A player, otherwise you're fucked.

As the forum's resident Blu-boy Gasteropod will be holding a party tonight

@Eva:
Nope, region B only.

Why would I be fucked?
Most of the titles I want are region-free anyway.

tom2681 wrote:@Eva:
Nope, region B only.

Why would I be fucked?
Most of the titles I want are region-free anyway.

because Region coding is about to get worse,there is more choice in Region A and usually they are cheaper, dvd is the winner of the format war anyway.

Breaking: Universal Studios Goes Blu

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/ ... s_Blu/1483

LOL, like we all didn't see that one coming from a mile away!

But when will Paramount follow? Just today they've announced Sweeney Todd and There will be Blood on HD-DVD.

tom2681 wrote:Although I'm disappointed that the inferior, more expensive, incomplete, DRM-infested and region-coded format has won, I'm glad the war is over.

* How is it inferior? It holds more disk space, supports PCM on top of TrueHD/DTS-HD and the AV quality is the same.
* Incorrect it's not incomplete. BD Profile 2.0 has been ready for sometime now. Blame the manufacturers not BD itself.

Region coding aside I've never got why so many think HD-DVD is better. They're the same, there isn't anything in it.

I'll give you the rest though

tom2681 wrote:*Off to buy a Sony BDP-S300 standalone player*

Why not a Panasonic? That model is only Profile 1.0 and offers no TrueHD or DTS-HD support. The BDP-S500 adds TrueHD/DTS-HD but it too is still only Profile 1.0.

tom2681 wrote:Why would I be fucked?
Most of the titles I want are region-free anyway.

Because their are stacks of Region A exclusives but very few Region B exclusives. It's that simple.

This apparantly says Universal are going to bring Heroes out on BD. I cannot get the page to load to see for myself:

http://www.homemediamagazine.com/news/h ... e_id=12118

My god the Panasonic BD Players look AWESOME! Check out the DMP-BD50 -

http://www.homecinemachoice.com/cgi-bin ... hp?id=9476

I'll hold out until I hear what Samsung are up to but if that goes tits up I'll be getting a Region A DMP-BD50 for sure.

I cannot think of anything the DMP-BD50 is missing:

* Profile 2.0
* 7.1 Analogue Outputs
* HDMI 1.3a
* 24fps Support
* TrueHD & DTS-HD over HDMI or Analogue

The DMP-BD30 offers:

* Profile 1.1
* HDMI 1.3a
* 24fps Support
* TrueHD & DTS-HD over HDMI

Both are much better than the latest Sony offerings (BDP-S300 or BDP-S500)!

p.s - How hard would it be to add a Wireless connection though? I cannot work out why no BD or HD-DVD Player has one. I guess that adds encryption complications but as long as it support WEP, WPA and WPA2 it should be fine.

I guess I can run an Ethernet cable to my router but I'd prefer if I didn't have to, and for most this just wouldn't be possible.

bradavon wrote:
Region coding aside I've never got why so many think HD-DVD is better. They're the same, there isn't anything in it.

German Crank hd-dvd pissed on the USA BD. German silent hill hd-dvd pissed over the usa BD. German Saw BD pisses on the usa BD. Spanish Underworld Evolution hd-dvd pissed on the usa BD. T2 UK hd-dvd pisses on the usa BD. uk Total Recall hd-dvd pisses on the usa BD.see the pattern......and i know what i'm talking about with at least 3 of those titles having at times owned and played both the hd-dvd and the blu-ray.

But Salty, it's more a case of foreign distributors putting more effort in rather than it being a format-specific quality control issue.

gasteropod wrote:But Salty, it's more a case of foreign distributors putting more effort in rather than it being a format-specific quality control issue.

so Blu-ray distributors in the usa are shit then and are cheating their consumers.? i don't buy your reasoning,for example the usa BD of Crank is utterly superb,top notch yet the german hd-dvd still topped it.

saltysam wrote:German Crank hd-dvd pissed on the USA BD. German silent hill hd-dvd pissed over the usa BD. German Saw BD pisses on the usa BD. Spanish Underworld Evolution hd-dvd pissed on the usa BD. T2 UK hd-dvd pisses on the usa BD. uk Total Recall hd-dvd pisses on the usa BD.see the pattern......

Now you're just being pedantic

I obviously I wasn't talking about specific examples but generally speaking. I'm sure specifics work both way. You know I've always been a fan of both formats.

saltysam wrote:for example the usa BD of Crank is utterly superb,top notch yet the german hd-dvd still topped it.

Like that couldn't have just as easily worked the other way . There is nothing inherently inferior about BD to say a new Crank BD couldn't look better.

Both HD-DVD and BD offer the same video bitrates, same 1080p specification, same video codec (MPEG2, AVC or VC1) and the same audio specifications.

saltysam wrote:i don't buy your reasoning

Gasteropod reasoning makes perfect sense. Just like DVD when a studio takes more care over a release it will look better than the prospective DVD. Criterion have been doing it for years.

You've listed 6 examples of a HD-DVD looking better than a BD as gospel that HD-DVD looks better than BD. Warner have proven "if you use the same encode" the BD and HD-DVD will look identical. Why wouldn't they?