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Geena Phillips
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 198
From: Norcross, GA / USA
Registered: Apr 2006

posted 12-29-2009 09:40 PM

Oh, Claude. Princess of Mars is from The Asylum Home Entertainment, the same good folk who gave us Snakes On A Train, Death Racers and Transmorphers. You might want to leave your brain in another room entirely when you watch it. [Smile]

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Steven J Hart
Master Film Handler

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From: WALES, ND, USA
Registered: Mar 2004

posted 12-30-2009 08:29 AM

I've given the Apple TV another try and downloaded the HD version of Quantum of Solace. This is a 720P download and did not look quite as good as the blu-ray's I've recently watched, but it was much better than some of my other downloads from Apple. I didn't notice any motion artifacts or other weirdness caused by data compression. The picture is MUCH better than the HD I'm getting from my DISH network subscription (also 720P). The data compression used by the satellite providers on HD must be huge.

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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."

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From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 12-30-2009 09:33 AM

The HD DVR receivers from Dish Network don't have native signal pass through. If your receiver is set for 720p it will convert every channel to 720p. I have mine set for 1080i since the vast majority of HD cable channels are broadcast in 1080i. Not many networks broadcast in 720p (ABC, FOX, ESPN).

Compression levels on satellite TV are pretty severe. But the rate obviously varies from one channel to the next. The HBO channels often look pretty good while the picture from some of the lesser networks constantly gets riddled with banding, macro-blocking and other issues.

Quite often the free, over the air broadcasts I get from my outdoor antenna look better than the satellite TV channels. But I only get the local ABC, FOX and NBC channels from the antenna.

For HD picture quality, nothing you can get in the home beats Blu-ray.

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Claude S. Ayakawa
Film God

Posts: 2738
From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA
Registered: Aug 2002

posted 12-30-2009 06:22 PM

PRINCESS OF MARS was so dreadful I was only able to watch about twenty five minutes of it before I shut it off and switched to regular HDTV broadcasts and tuned in to watch something on public television. I enjoyed MARINE 2. It was not a film that win awards but it was full of action and delivers what it was suppose to do. Although I watched it on a DVD, the picture quality was gorgeous and looked just as good as HD movies on television. There were times when I felt I was watching it on Blu-Ray because that was how good the picture quality was. The movie was filmed at a brand new beach resort at Phuket, Thailand where the 2004 Tsunami took place and it was beautiful.

-Claude

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Ron Funderburg
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 814
From: Chickasha, Oklahoma, USA
Registered: Nov 2007

posted 01-01-2010 11:30 AM

To answer Bobby first you got the electric company no out and out black outs just lights that dip and then brighten and I mean really brighten up. Then it all settles back down.

UPS do help with power dips but not with spikes and I think the spikes we get are as much to blame as anything else.

Blu-Ray trumps all others on quality at this time other than film in a theater where they know how to do film. Like mine!

Claude I knew a princess once she was from Denver not Mars and the title was purely honorary but she was a a PRINCESS for sure! I usually was ready to turn her off after about 15 to 20 minutes as well but she had no off button at all. Funny thing when I had no more money to spend on her she turned herself off to me so fast it made my wallet spin. Ah if I had only known I could have spent it even faster!

OK well back to getting the theater ready for the big New Years Day throng of people, I HOPE!

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Mark Gulbrandsen
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From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-01-2010 01:49 PM

Unfortunately it'll be a long time until many smaller titles and foreign films get transfered to Blu-Ray. So I still make uise of many of my DVDs all of which look much better upconverted by either the HD-DVD player or the Blu-Ray player. As I get Blu-Ray titles of films I have on DVD I give the DVDs away to those that don't have the titles.

Mark

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David Stambaugh
Film God

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From: Eugene, Oregon
Registered: Jan 2002

posted 01-02-2010 08:24 PM

If you want to see how good Blu-ray can look and you have $30-$35 to blow, consider buying the Spears & Munsill High Definition Benchmark - Blu-ray Edition. The opening montage is the best image quality I've seen on Blu-ray. The real purpose of the disc is it has professional-grade test patterns etc. so you can do a decent calibration of your HDTV.

See also http://www.spearsandmunsil.com for more info on the disc.

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