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In Reply to: Blue Ray observations..long and rambling.... posted by unclestu52 on August 22, 2006 at 22:50:33:
Sharp?
HFD is not one of the better Blu-ray movies re: picture quality. Actually, it's been beaten up pretty badly by just about everyone in the online forums and the reviewing press. One of the main complaints has been the soft picture.Better blacks?
Everything mastered for Blu-ray so far has clipped blacks -- all content <16 is gone -- and clipped peak whites as well -- all content >235 is gone. The Sony encoder has been used to encode everything out on Blu-ray so far and all Blu-ray discs are mastered by Sony, in MPEG2, at this point in time. Every disc has this same clipping aspect and there is no way to get it back (ie; it's not encoded on the disc).Doesn't sound right?
Either the Samsung's channel setup tones are wrong or the outputs are wrong. I can't remember which one it is.There's more, but I don't think it'll make a difference.
Follow Ups:
I bought the machine primarily so I simply could assess the quality and the potential of this new medium.
I do recall you mentioning the clipped blacks and whites before. The Sam Sung has a switch for enhanced black level and I prefer it off. I do see more details in the black however, which is rather odd. Fine hair stranding is much more visible, although this may be an artifact of the higher resolution. I do see the softness you mention although I noticed that in the original (I have both the US release and the Chinese normal DVD). I see it as being a manifestation of using a short lens. One thing about the machine is that you are really aware of the technical aspects of the movie making process.
One thing that struck me is the vividness of the colors. I haven't gone back to the original DVD yet, but IIRC, the colors are not quite so vivid. I'd swear some color enhancement has been employed, although very judiciously for the most part.
As for the sound I am using the digital outs, not the analog ones. The fact has been I find the vast majority of DVDs have the sound inverted in polarity. In fact anytime you have a problem where the effects drown out the dialogue, chances are the sound is polarity inverted.
Stu
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