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I will not go into HOW i saw this, but this is a review on the film picture quality itself.
IT's in 1280x720p and the file size is 4.32Gb, i've compared it with the R2 DVD SE.
Well the difference is mind blowing! The leap in detail is amazing and i would compare it to the leap from VHS > DVD. I'm totally eating my words here as i didn't believe the leap in picture quality was going to be as much as this. It's not only the sharpness that surprises here but the shadow detail and the level of detail in faces, fabric lighting etc. And, and i didn't believe this was going to be the case, i found myself actively enjoying the film more BECAUSE it was in HD. I really felt i was watching the film as it was meant to be shown for the first time since the the cinema.
Now i'm sure this will more the case in such cases as sci-fi, action movies. And i don't know if Blue-ray will probably look even better. But if it look this good on 720p then i can't imagine what it will look like in 1080i or 1080p!!! I'm also surprised that they fit the whole movie in under 5GB and i didn't spot any artifacting or any other problems that bligted early DVD's
The only down side of this that i have 300 DVD's now i have to think about replacing them all!!!!
That's odd, I thought all HD-DVD releases so far had been encoded at 1920x1080?
The file tag says 1280x720p is there anyway to double check this? i'm playing this on my pc
jeffstarr
14-06-2006, 11:16
Even more odd is that The Fifth Element is a Sony title which will be bundled with Sony's Blu-Ray player.
1st bootleg?
EDIT--
Definitely sounds fishy - what 'PC' are you playing it back on? Sounds like someone has taken an HD Broadcast and WMV'd or MPG4'd it...
It actually doesn't matter which format i'm reviewing this on. I'm reviewing the difference between SD and HD versions of the film. And i for one is sold if speculation on the source continues then i'll have to ask for this thread to close
jeffstarr
14-06-2006, 11:48
Well, actually it does matter as you Subject line states it's a HD-DVD, and it sounds like it isn't.
I don't want to know, how, where or who you got the disc off of, just confirmation that it's a High Def film on DVD, and not an 'HD DVD'.
There was a blu-ray demo in the States at the weekend which a few members of the Home Theatre Forum attended - and out of all the clips from the forthcoming films they saw, they said the Fifth Element was the least impressive and offered little or no improvement over the Superbit.
Also sounds like you've got hold of a HDTV version from somewhere as blu-rays will be 1080p same as HD-DVDs.
Edge
Well, actually it does matter as you Subject line states it's a HD-DVD, and it sounds like it isn't.
I don't want to know, how, where or who you got the disc off of, just confirmation that it's a High Def film on DVD, and not an 'HD DVD'.My error, i have amended the thread title to reflect this, as it's not on disc
:lol: When threads go wrong No. 2556345
sideshowbob
14-06-2006, 12:52
... if speculation on the source continues then i'll have to ask for this thread to close
I'm surprised it's still here anyway - it all sounds mighty fishy.
DeadKenny
14-06-2006, 13:08
Which R2 DVD was it compared with? There are several versions on DVD and the quality varies quite a bit.
Can we see some screen grabs to do a comparison?
thescrounger
14-06-2006, 13:31
4.32GB for a whole HD movie is too small for either HD-DVD or Bluray. I suspect you're just watching some DL movie recorded from a US HDTV broadcast. Judging from the filesize it's probably an HD Xvid file or something. Unless you are actually reviewing a proper disc there's little point in doing a comparison here.
lfletcher
14-06-2006, 13:48
Sounds like the WM9 encode of a US broadcast of the Fifth Element that was doing the rounds a few years ago. The mpeg2 version of this file is more like 15GB. Either way its not HD-DVD or Blu Ray, and I imagine the Blu Ray version will be quite a bit better.
Sounds like the WM9 encode of a US broadcast of the Fifth Element that was doing the rounds a few years ago. The mpeg2 version of this file is more like 15GB. Either way its not HD-DVD or Blu Ray, and I imagine the Blu Ray version will be quite a bit better.
That make me very excited then, because The Fifth Element is one of my all time favourate movies. And if someone showed me this and said this was Blue-ray then i would have been more then happy.
I have the English R2 2-disc SE, and althrough it looks fine on a standard TV when comparing it on a computer screen to a HD source the difference really smacks you in the face
jeffstarr
14-06-2006, 14:56
:lol: When threads go wrong No. 2556345
Is that the sequel to "My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117" cos that was quite good!
:D
it's been sourced by whats universally referred to as 'other means' i believe. i have the same copy myself.
personally, i see this stuff as a taster. they have improved the quality of these kinds of 'releases' massively over the last 2 years - ROTS and Sin City as an example, so the proper on HD-DVD or BD is something to look forward to :D
Not Blu-Ray or HD-DVD so closing.
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