Re: what is the best HD DVD that you have purchased?

HD DVD titles i've been impressed with:
The Kingdom
King Kong
Aeon Flux
Chronicles of Riddick

with extras i've liked:
The Mummy
Blade Runner - its 5 disks
The Kingdom

TRANSFORMERS, V FOR VENDETTA, BATMAN BEGINS, SERENITY

I loved Stardust but it looked quite grainy to me compared to these four above. It could be that I have a 720p tv and Stardust only shows up great in 1080p.

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"Are you trying to say that "Kong" looks "harsh" to your eyes?"

Yeah I guess you could say that. Don't get me wrong - I do think it's a great transfer with lots of detail. But the effect tended to make the CGI look a bit more fake than it could be.

Stardust was the opposite end of the scale to me, looking rather soft and pillowy. I think this was the intended affect.

The one HD DVD that sold me on the format was King Kong...I darn near watched the whole movie in Best Buy one afternoon...and it was the first movie I bought after picking up my HD-A3. It started me on my little collection of 80 odd HD-DVD movies...

But the one HD-DVD, that if Toshiba had provided to each and every store to show off what HD-DVD could do, is the BBC version of Planet Earth...OMG...now that is what HD viewing is all about...no computer "enhancement"...just raw nature at it's best.

Oh and my favourite Blu-ray is The 5th Element...mind you I only own 3 of them

I like the Blade Runner 5-Disc set on HD DVD. The remaster looks great, although it's not the all-time best PQ, it's a MUCH improved transfer of a deserving movie and all the extras you get are phenominal. I love how they included the original theatrical version too.

The other HD DVD I really like is Planet Earth because it's just beautiful to look at. Also the Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift has some great PIP and other extras.

As far as picture quality there are several, most of which have already been mentioned.

Hey there bladerunner... FILM GRAIN is a natural part of cinematography, and is varying in degrees due to how the director intends for his image to look. It's just one part of how well the photographic quality ends up, along with resolution, color, contrast, motion elements, etc.

EXCERPT from the link above -

Film grain or granularity is the random optical texture of processed photographic film due to the presence of small grains of a metallic silver developed from silver halide that have received enough photons. Film grain is often considered an artistic effect, and can be found in some digital photo manipulation software such as Photoshop as something that can be added to an image after it is taken.


> Additional INFO - more explanatory (w/pics)
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[Post edited by Love Hendrix! on May 3, 2008]

hendrix,
where did i say anything about film grain? I know this already. but thanks anyway...

Sorry bladerunner... Must have been on another thread here recently where someone had made a complaint about visable film grain (and not you). Oh well, I'm sure the info (above) is beneficial to everyone.
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you and i could be the same person tim.