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For a comic book movie, i was actually pleasantly surprised.

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In Reply to: RE: Here's my review of the BD posted by Jazz Inmate on August 05, 2007 at 23:30:47

I might've preferred a more "historically accurate" rendition of the battle of Thermopylae (sp?) but then again, I don't what else might look "historically accurate". I haven't seen the comic book so I don't how closely it follows it.

I'm intrigued by your observations on TrueHD. My impression was it's a variation of the MLP used for DVD-A using "lossless" audio compression. In theory, there should have been no difference between PCM and a "lossless" algorithm which is "unpacked" to PCM upon playback. Your observations suggest otherwise. Or is it possible that the particular TrueHD decoder used isn't really transparent and up to the job ?

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yeah, for what it tried to be, it did a fine job - Jazz Inmate 12:31:32 08/06/07 (0)
There were no pretenses about 300 being a documentary, and all war movies from Battle of the Bulge to Pearl Harbor take liberties and change the way it happened.

You're right that TrueHD is not supposed to have any effect on the sound, but it does. It's not night and day, but it is a minor issue that will lead me to choose PCM every time, if given a choice.
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