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Ok, Ok, I bit and got the Sam Sung machine. So far, (one week) no problems. Picture quality even on standard DVDs shows much higher black levels and better color saturation. I have only one BR DVD, House of Flying Daggers (OK, so you've seen it a million times) and am awaiting others on order. The picture is excellent, although the HD does make you much more aware of the depth of view of the camera.I am really curious if others have noticed the remixing that has been done on this movie and, if so, if they notice it it on other films. The colors are much more vivid, but I suspect it is not simply due to the HD transfer.
I do see considerably more sharpness (using a three year old Marantz Plasma with 768 resolution running the 720P outputs into the marantz). The scenes, in general, have much more three dimensionality because of the increased resolution and black levels, although I have to turn the black level off on the SS BR machine.
What is really interesting is the sound. Everything seems to have been hyped up a bit. Effects are louder, and surprisingly the soundtracks are in reversed phase compared to my older Marantz DVD 8400 and all other DVD players I have used. The remixing is really evident in the soundtrack and inthe end credits, Kathleen Battle's voice sounds like she's singing in a shower about two houses away.I was wondering if any other BR owners have noticed these anomalies?
Stu
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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.
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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