Gladiator & Braveheart finally in HD

I don't know if it's old news or what, but Cinemax has both Gladiator and Braveheart in HD. I hope that this is a sign of things to come. I know that they have had Star Wars in HD for over a year now with no HD disk release but these movies are not controlled by Lucas. I really hope that they release these films soon. Man, Gladiator really looks good in HD.

[Post edited by tony1569 on Mar 4, 2008]

I would love to see Gladiator in HD, actually Braveheart and Star Wars too

Tony are you Tivo'ing them? How/where do you save them? You can keep them on your hard drive or whatever storage media forever right?

Watched Braveheart in HD on one of the Canadian HD movie channels this past weekend...spetacular!!!

Makes me want to go to Paramount and punch someone for not releasing truly block-buster movies, like Braveheart, Indiana Jones and the Star Trek movies on HD DVD

Falcon, unfortunately I can't record it on my DVR with On Demand but...here's the good part....I can record them if it comes on the regular MaxHD channel which it does tomorrow night. So I have to sacrifice some of my ST:TNG episodes to make room, but it's worth it. I'm setting up the DVR now to record it tomorrow night.

[Post edited by tony1569 on Mar 4, 2008]

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Makes me want to go to Paramount and punch someone for not releasing truly block-buster movies, like Braveheart, Indiana Jones and the Star Trek movies on HD DVD

I totally agree...I have never understood why you would wait to release these titles...stupid.

I have The Empire Strikes Back in HD on my DVR and oh my goodness the picture is near flawless.

Didn't someone post here once those films are just the 480P SD DVD version upsclaed and some color tweaking done, and not true HD versions being played.

I don't know but my box goes directly into the my 1080p set and every HD On Demand movie it plays is in 1080i.

[Post edited by tony1569 on Mar 4, 2008]

they wanna wait because all the good movies at once doesent make sense.

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they wanna wait because all the good movies at once doesent make sense.

Yeah well that studio approach didn't help out HD DVD at all did it.
I still don't agree with the theory that if they release all the 'blockbusters' at once they are somehow losing something. I would buy a Lord of the Rings HD box set tomorrow if it came out...or I would buy it a year from now...either way I will buy it. Either way the studio makes money, so what do they gain from waiting?

[Post edited by Bosshog7 on Mar 4, 2008]

i have seen some of these movies on hd channels. To me they just look like the sd version in 480p upscaled nothing more. but they do look good but so does sd dvd

I don't know what cable service you guys have, but I have Cox, and it comes in at 1080I, and almost rivals my BR or HDDVD quality here in New Orleans, seriously.

Blu-B... yeah it's HD, 1080i, but in no way rivals Blu-ray and HD-DVD (in my opinion) because of the deep COMPRESSION of the signal (especially noticeable on fast-moving images). I have Comcast cable, and all of these cable/satellite companies compressed the HD signal, and have never presented it in the best quality it's capable of.

While the hi-def disc formats use compression, it's done better than the cable/satellite companies, and almost all disc titles output a 1080p/24 signal (some are 1080i/60, like concerts etc). From what I've read, we will never see a 1080p/24 signal being output on cable or satellite.

-JIMI (the Voodoo Child)

LH, Agreed, BUT I am just saying that the Star Wars films (all 6) I have on my DVR (yes I have almost NO space left) from HBO are in no way upconverted 480 as some have said. They look AMAZING, but yes, not AS good as BR or HDDVD.

"You're Star Wars is for me . . . to poop on!"

I'm with Comcast and LH this is a first but I have to slightly disagree with you. From the distance I sit from my TV I can't tell the difference between 300 cable(1080i) and 300 Blu ray(1080p). The same with CARS. IMO.