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Jack G

In Reply to: RE: it was the HD-DVDs I had at the time (memory lost in the mist of time)... posted by oscar on June 07, 2007 at 13:04:22

I don't think any of those are on the "bit starved" movie list, even by the most vocal opponents of VC-1. That said, I'm fairly sure, that if you look hard enough, you can find flaws in quite a few movies. Some people even crank up their sharpness just to see them. In some(many) cases, it may be the compressionist, not the codec. I don't have a projector, but I do have a 60" 1080p set, and I saw that there is visible banding on Planet Earth. Its still a nice box set. Hell, over at AVS, most BD titles, even exclusives, are listed as containing some artifacts. Of the few that don't, 2/3 are from Warner-Imagine that!
enjoy,
Jack

Edits: 06/08/07

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I'm sure they ALL have some artifacts. - oscar 07:53:50 06/08/07 (0)
I've had my share of disappointments on Blu-ray; E.g. I thought "Night at the Museum" was good, not great and could have been much better but they had to make it fit on a 25G disc. Could the result have been better if they had a 50G constraint to work with ?

I've the impression making low(er) bitrate encodes require a bit more TLC to mask/eliminate video artifacts; if they don't put in the TLC (or they can't stand higher bitrates because of bandwidth/storage considerations), you get results like "Blood Diamond".

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