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Chris Beveridge
10-20-2006, 11:09 PM
As appears on Cars DVD

http://lighthousenews.us/trailers/carspreview.mpg
slerch666
10-21-2006, 08:11 AM
Beauty and the Beast... I'm all over that one. I just watched the DVD version on my new HD TV and the transfer was lackluster thanks to the multiple angles. B&tB is my favorite Disney animated film.

Aladdin and Lion King I'll be on. I was going to get The Little Mermaid on DVD, but now that I see it's coming to BR, I'll wait.
DeadlyMessiah
10-21-2006, 09:56 AM
Lion King would be cool, but I own the DVDs. Tell me when they announce Pirates of the Carribean and then I'll start getting interested.
slerch666
10-21-2006, 06:51 PM
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Lion King would be cool, but I own the DVDs. Tell me when they announce Pirates of the Carribean and then I'll start getting interested.

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Pirates is in the BR trailer, so it's only a matter of time.

I'll buy the other movies, despite having the DVDs (can always sell on eBay), as the video quality on some of them is questionable.
DeadlyMessiah
10-22-2006, 05:58 PM
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Lion King would be cool, but I own the DVDs. Tell me when they announce Pirates of the Carribean and then I'll start getting interested.

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Pirates is in the BR trailer, so it's only a matter of time.

I'll buy the other movies, despite having the DVDs (can always sell on eBay), as the video quality on some of them is questionable.

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Yes, but the video quality on BR has also been questionable at this stage in the game. Hell, Sony, BR's own father, refuses to use the superior video codec for BR (VC-1) just because it was created by Microsoft. Talk about deedeedeee.
slerch666
10-22-2006, 07:16 PM
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Yes, but the video quality on BR has also been questionable at this stage in the game. Hell, Sony, BR's own father, refuses to use the superior video codec for BR (VC-1) just because it was created by Microsoft. Talk about deedeedeee.

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I'm guessing even a "questionable" BR disc will look better than a questionable DVD. And since the discussion at the moment is in regard to Disney's movies, they'll probably use the MS codec. But then again, who knows?

And I thought all the BR releases coming now were using the VC-1 codec (well, maybe not Sony's stuff)?
Chris Beveridge
10-22-2006, 08:45 PM
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DeadlyMessiah said:
Yes, but the video quality on BR has also been questionable at this stage in the game. Hell, Sony, BR's own father, refuses to use the superior video codec for BR (VC-1) just because it was created by Microsoft. Talk about deedeedeee.

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I'm guessing even a "questionable" BR disc will look better than a questionable DVD. And since the discussion at the moment is in regard to Disney's movies, they'll probably use the MS codec. But then again, who knows?

And I thought all the BR releases coming now were using the VC-1 codec (well, maybe not Sony's stuff)?

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Disney is using a mixture of AVC/h.264 and MPEG2. Longer movies get AVC while shorter movies get MPEG2. Their stuff is looking fantastic though. Eight Below is gorgeous.
quenelf
10-23-2006, 10:56 AM
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DeadlyMessiah said:
this stage in the game. Hell, Sony, BR's own father, refuses to use the superior video codec for BR (VC-1) just because it was created by Microsoft. Talk about deedeedeee.

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Errr, no. I don't know why they're 'refusing' to use it (licensing fees, maybe?) but it isn't that reason - you can tell, because they're also not using the superior video codec MPEG-4 AVC which wasn't created by Microsoft.

(As you can tell, I doubt claims of VC-1's superiority over MPEG-4, but regardless, both the newer codecs offer big advantages over MPEG-2 and Sony hasn't been using either of them.)

Although early Blu-ray releases have indeed had poor video quality, I doubt Disney is going to release many of these 'at this stage in the game'. Sounds to me like this trailer is really more a 'telling the public what side they're on' effort than an actual intent to release any of those films any time soon. (And the more popular ones will surely wait until the format is well established.)

--quen
DeadlyMessiah
10-23-2006, 11:58 PM
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Chris Beveridge said:
Disney is using a mixture of AVC/h.264 and MPEG2. Longer movies get AVC while shorter movies get MPEG2. Their stuff is looking fantastic though. Eight Below is gorgeous.

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Yes, which still makes less sense as VC-1 is better. MPEG2 on a High Def disc should be illegal.