Every now and then I'll see a blu-ray at a store. Sometimes I'm really impressed. Thats when watching animated movies like 'Kung Fu Panda'.
But when I watch real, filmed scenes with actual actors....it looks odd to me. The lighting is often too bright, you can see the makeup on people. Scenes look like they take place on sets. Short version...does NOT look like film.
For example, I was watching U-571 yesterday at BB, and it looked nothing like what I saw in the theater.
Is this bad digital transfers or is the blu-ray technology just basically not appropriate to playing film? I know it was never intended for home use. When the dvd forum created the hd-dvd standard Sony took a Japanese professional recorder and beat on it until they created, wait for it..'blu-ray'!
I like my movies to look like movies. Like film. Not like oversaturated cartoons.
Anyone else notice this?
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Topic - Blu-ray makes everything look like a cartoon? - mbnx01 12:58:24 05/28/09 (27)
- RE: Blu-ray makes everything look like a cartoon? - panhead 19:33:36 06/23/09 (0)
- RE: Blu-ray makes everything look like a cartoon? - Cosmic Closet 08:28:21 06/05/09 (0)
- Watch Blu-Ray on a huge-ass projector screen and you will blow your load (nt) - Doug Flynn 01:45:09 06/02/09 (7)
- RE: Watch Blu-Ray on a huge-ass projector screen and you will blow your load (nt) - audioAl 02:49:00 07/10/09 (0)
- Sounds kind of messy. - Wendell Narrod 07:14:06 06/04/09 (0)
- As long as you aren't watching both a 1080p Kuro and a 720p FP. - oscar 08:41:00 06/02/09 (4)
- I owned the same FP model as yours…. - kootenay 20:41:43 06/02/09 (3)
- I've already replaced two (2) bulbs. - oscar 06:37:28 06/03/09 (2)
- I heard you. - kootenay 07:27:26 06/03/09 (1)
- I might already have had the JVC if it wasn't for the "Kuro extinction phenomena" - oscar 08:09:39 06/03/09 (0)
- It's the store settings of the display - no wonder stores are struggling. [nt] - chris.redmond2@bushinternet.com 01:15:19 05/31/09 (1)
- Not really. - Wendell Narrod 04:40:02 05/31/09 (0)
- RE: Blu-ray makes everything look like a cartoon? - Rich H 14:53:47 05/30/09 (3)
- Standard video advice - unclestu52 03:40:22 06/10/09 (0)
- Great post. That might explain exactly what I'm seeing with the Samsung LEDs. - oscar 15:03:06 06/01/09 (1)
- RE: Great post. That might explain exactly what I'm seeing with the Samsung LEDs. - Tom Brennan 20:28:52 06/01/09 (0)
- Is it the settings or display maybe? - grantv 09:34:50 05/29/09 (2)
- consistent - mbnx01 12:38:53 05/29/09 (1)
- But is it consistantly on LCD TV's on display in stores? - grantv 14:08:40 05/29/09 (0)
- "Every now and then I'll see a blu-ray at a store" - racerguy 14:25:24 05/28/09 (6)
- But it's a reason why stores have been able to sell LCDs.. - oscar 15:07:23 05/28/09 (5)
- I really want to like LCD TVs - racerguy 19:47:09 05/28/09 (4)
- Me too, but Plasma is so much better - AbeCollins 00:33:27 06/05/09 (0)
- Where are they? - mbnx01 09:44:07 05/31/09 (0)
- but I'm not going to - mbnx01 08:10:59 05/29/09 (0)
- RE: I really want to like LCD TVs - Hornlover 07:48:29 05/29/09 (0)
- "Anyone else notice this? " - Wendell Narrod 14:18:24 05/28/09 (0)