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Author Topic: AVATAR for BR/DVD .. in 1.78:1 ?? David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 04-26-2010 03:33 PM                        I had no intention of buying Avatar. But I happened to see it playing on BD at Best Buy over the weekend and was pretty amazed at how good it looked there. So I had to buy it.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 04-26-2010 06:10 PM                     quote: Mark Strube I was surprised by this (not owning the disc myself yet, to be fair) just knowing what a high profile release this is. I Googled blu-ray reviews for Avatar, and I also checked a favorite site I used to go to all the time - dvdfile.com ... I am not finding these bad reviews? I didn't say the reviews were bad. I said some reviews stated the video quality was not perfect. Read Bill Hunt's review at The Digital Bits web site for one example. The reviews I've read on Avatar have all made specific mention of the disc's high video bit rate contributing positively to the image quality. Minority Report is another recent BD release getting high marks for its high bit rate and spreading the movie across an entire BD50 disc.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 04-26-2010 08:00 PM                     quote: Bobby Henderson Cameron may have panned and scanned the 2.39:1 cropped image in certain shots Then, wonder if we're gonna see "Titanic" on a 1.77:1 BR release then since that was also done in Super35 ... -Monte  |  IP: Logged Mike Schindler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1039 From: Oak Park, IL, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 04-26-2010 09:36 PM                     I watched the BD a few days ago, and based solely on the compositions, I'm guessing that some shots were opened up and some shots were cropped to create the 1.78:1 version.  |  IP: Logged Kyle Butler Film Handler Posts: 47 From: Belton, TX Registered: Jan 2010 posted 05-05-2010 06:40 AM                     I figured this is exactly what was going to happen the minute i saw the faxes about flat/scope versions of the theatrical release several months ago. Assumingly, 99.9% of HDTV owners have a 16:9 TV and care more about using the full size of the screen than it being 2.39:1. I wish consumers had a choice though. Some of us have digital projectors with squeeze lenses/ anamorphic conversion boxes, and motorized masking  |  IP: Logged Julio Roberto Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 938 From: Madrid, Madrid, Spain Registered: Oct 2008 posted 05-05-2010 07:59 AM                    Don't you worry. You'll have a choice between 1.78, 1.85 and 2.35 in either the special-special edition, the ultimate-edition, the definitive-edition or the foreign australian-widescape hard-to-get limited collector's edition. If not, you can always crop it to 2.35:1 yourself ...  |  IP: Logged Kyle Butler Film Handler Posts: 47 From: Belton, TX Registered: Jan 2010 posted 05-05-2010 07:38 PM                     Damn. I was hoping they would come out with a "Special Fox is going to skullfuck every last penny out of you because this is the only decent film we've released in years super spectacular edition"  |  IP: Logged

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