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Blu Rays worth buying

  • 29-11-2009 1:46pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 145 ✭✭


    Well lads,
    I have a PS3 and I am going to invest in a few blu rays shortly along with a HDMI cable. Anyone recommend a few titles that are really worth buying blu ray copies of?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,503 ✭✭✭Makaveli


    The Dark Knight anyway. Some of the scenes look amazing.
    Although not a film the Planet Earth boxset looks great too and you should be able to pick it up for a reasonable price.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,426 ✭✭✭Roar


    off the top of my head, star trek, dark knight, planet earth, sleeping beauty, wall-e (any of the pixar stuff really), Mad Men (i LOVE it)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,013 ✭✭✭✭jaykhunter


    LOL, Dark Knight and Planet Earth are at the top of my list too... Terminator 2 looks AMAZING in HD. I couldn't believe how much better it looked than upscaled DVD... Purely for HD, Casino Royale (is cheap to buy) looks amazing. The new Star Trek...

    Just FYI, 300 and Death Proof don't look great in HD because they've intentionally got blurry film grain on them...so don't really benefit from HD :mad: Batman Begins looks almost exactly in HD as upscaled DVD :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    The Dark Knight
    Band of Brothers
    Planet Earth
    300
    Wall-e (or any of the Pixar movie)
    Speed Racer (looks utterly amazing in HD)
    The Bond movies (even the old ones, great restoration jobs)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Kess73


    The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly.


    A brilliant film that now looks and sounds as good as the film is. Picked up a US import version of it. It is region free so will work on European blu ray players and PS3s.

    OP, it you are looking to start buying blu rays, you would be best served buying them online, as the prices in a lot of the bricks and mortar stores here are a joke.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,174 ✭✭✭rednik


    The Bourne trilogy
    The Godfather trilogy
    Blood Diamond
    Blade Runner
    Iron Man
    Try some concerts like The Police - Certifiable, Jeff Beck live at Ronnie Scotts, Rush - Snakes and arrows.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,283 ✭✭✭Glico Man


    The Matrix Trilogy

    Not a fan of them myself but they look glorious in HD


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭Skinfull


    The Dark Knight
    Star Trek 2009
    Starship Troopers
    Terminator 2
    Signs (audio is superb!)
    Braveheart
    Close Encounters
    Iron Maiden Flight 666


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    I bought my first BR player in the last week, LG BD-370P. But, visually/quality wise i don't see any difference from DVD?....BD Live is good, i shoulda got the 390 as it's built-in wireless....mine uses Ethenet which is kinda pants.

    But IMO i think BR is overrated.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    I bought my first BR player in the last week, LG BD-370P. But, visually/quality wise i don't see any difference from DVD?....BD Live is good, i shoulda got the 390 as it's built-in wireless....mine uses Ethenet which is kinda pants.

    But IMO i think BR is overrated.
    You're wrong.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    I'm not...it's my opinion.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 129 ✭✭baileyjackson


    Watched the following lately on BR and thought they were worth every cent:

    Benjamin Button
    Pans Labyrinth
    Star Trek
    Angels and Demons
    Defiance
    The Reader
    Burning Plain


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    I bought my first BR player in the last week, LG BD-370P. But, visually/quality wise i don't see any difference from DVD?....BD Live is good, i shoulda got the 390 as it's built-in wireless....mine uses Ethenet which is kinda pants.

    But IMO i think BR is overrated.

    You're doing it wrong then:p What kind of setup have you? if you went from using an upscaling dvd player on a HD tv then with some movies you wont see a massive difference, depending on the transfer, but if you watch something like a Pixar movie on dvd on a regular, non hd tv then on BR and cant see any difference, get your eyes checked:D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    Actually i went to Specsavers on Wednesday for an eye test, all good. Using a 47" LG 47LH4000 with fimware hack, it's a quality set + a quality HDMI cable set to 1080p.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,969 ✭✭✭robby^5


    Actually i went to Specsavers on Wednesday for an eye test, all good. Using a 47" LG 47LH4000 with fimware hack, it's a quality set + a quality HDMI cable set to 1080p.

    What you should do then is get a bluray and if you can get the same thing on dvd and see for yourself the difference, because there is one and it's not so subtle that you seriously cant see any difference whatsoever...unless you're buying the wrong blurays, cause some can be terrible especially some older films. I personally dread Star Wars coming to BluRay, I can just imagine all the dirt and fingerprints etc. on all that plastic is going to look terrible in HD :/


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    ^ good idea...compare the two.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    robby^5 wrote: »
    What you should do then is get a bluray and if you can get the same thing on dvd and see for yourself the difference, because there is one and it's not so subtle that you seriously cant see any difference whatsoever...unless you're buying the wrong blurays, cause some can be terrible especially some older films. I personally dread Star Wars coming to BluRay, I can just imagine all the dirt and fingerprints etc. on all that plastic is going to look terrible in HD :/

    Like this?

    http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/4629/hd5mj9.jpg

    http://www.millenniumfalcon.com/highdefinition/mf_ANewHope1080p_VaderTusks.png





    Personally I dont mind it as the Star Wars universe is meant to look weathered and beaten up, theres a shot that i cant find of a few stormtroopers standing beside Leia when Vader is talking to her and you can now see the flaws in the armour, there's big dents, yellowing, chips missing and even numbers etched into them from the prop department:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,413 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Back on topic, my own personal favourites.
    • Sunshine
    • The Dark Knight (especially for the IMAX filmed bank-heist opener)
    • Cloverfield (sound is stunning!)
    • Wall-E
    • The Nightmare Before Christmas
    I've too many Blu-ray's still unwatched in their packaging including Reservoir Dogs, Matrix Trilogy, Band of Brothers, Pan's Labyrinth etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭voxpop


    But IMO i think BR is overrated.


    I would have a pretty similar opinion of blu-ray, but the opening scenes of the dark knight blu-ray looks amazing on a decent plasma.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,199 ✭✭✭G-Money


    The best Blu-ray dvd's I've seen from a picture quality perspective have actually been WWE wrestling discs. Specifically the most recent two Wrestlemania's and the 2009 Royal Rumble.

    They film the stuff in HD and don't add in graining and other stuff (which often seems to distort the difference between HD and normal dvd stuff).

    I have a Sony 32" LCD with 1080p and the WWE Blu-rays look good on it. On a bigger TV they look even better.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,096 ✭✭✭Liamario


    visually/quality wise i don't see any difference from DVD?

    If you can't see the difference, you either don't have a HDTV (or if you do, it's not set up properly) or you have problems with your eyesight, ie being able to see


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,413 ✭✭✭✭Basq




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭L31mr0d


    basquille wrote: »
    Some DVD vs Blu-ray comparisons:

    Didn't "My name is Earl" make fun of this, by having a piece of paper in one of their shots that read "High Def Rocks". If you where watching it in SD you couldn't make out the words.

    Also, detecting the differences between DVD and BD really depends on how close you are sitting to the screen. I have a friend with a 1080p 55" screen but he sits a good 15ft away from it and doesn't notice the difference. IMO, with a screen around 50" or smaller, if you sit more than 8ft away from it your eyes won't be able to tell the difference.

    My recommendations:

    The Matrix Trilogy
    Sunshine
    The Fountain
    The Fall

    and anything CGI from the last few years, Beowulf is especially amazing in HD, as well as the Japanese CG film Vexille


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,413 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    L31mr0d wrote: »
    Didn't "My name is Earl" make fun of this, by having a piece of paper in one of their shots that read "High Def Rocks". If you where watching it in SD you couldn't make out the words.
    They did indeed..

    P1010029.jpg
    hd.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,174 ✭✭✭rednik


    Also try Hellboy II. A couple of oldies given fantastic transfers are Zulu and North by Northwest and I suppose it helps both are great films.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,278 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    I picked up a few BluRays when I bought a PS3 and of that lot Pan's Labyrinth was the only fantastic one. I've been annoyed with the aspect ratio on a few of them - Blu Ray should be 16:9, because who the **** has a 2.35:1 setup? I know it may be more loyal to the theatre quality, and possibly not fixable in some situations, but you can't really tell the image improvements with black bars! Also I don't know whether it is worth buying older films in HD format - after all, only so much difference you can make when the film was made in an older format.

    Watching Planet Earth at the moment though, and out of this world quality. Helps to show the difference between HD and SD too - there are plenty of trickier bits shot with lower quality equipment (or higher quality in crazy conditions!) and when it switches to those stunning HD vistas you can definitely see the advantages.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    I picked up a few BluRays when I bought a PS3 and of that lot Pan's Labyrinth was the only fantastic one. I've been annoyed with the aspect ratio on a few of them - Blu Ray should be 16:9, because who the **** has a 2.35:1 setup? I know it may be more loyal to the theatre quality, and possibly not fixable in some situations, but you can't really tell the image improvements with black bars! Also I don't know whether it is worth buying older films in HD format - after all, only so much difference you can make when the film was made in an older format.

    Watching Planet Earth at the moment though, and out of this world quality. Helps to show the difference between HD and SD too - there are plenty of trickier bits shot with lower quality equipment (or higher quality in crazy conditions!) and when it switches to those stunning HD vistas you can definitely see the advantages.

    They have some of those 2.35:1 tvs in a few of the electronic stores around, very cool for movies shot that way but i wouldnt bother, everything else would have wierd black bars at the sides of the screen, thatd completely take me out of watching something, the ones on top and bottom are more acceptable


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