Blue Ray still not on top, even without HD-DVD

[Michael Lindsay]

*sigh*
...he shot Inland Empire on a PD150. I'm not losing jack by watching it on an iPhone. Personally, I think he's just being pretentious.

I suspect he just loves cinema.

As I suspect you know scale and resolution are not the same thing. If you watch a low rez film on a small screen it will not feel oppressively murky for example.

Pixelvision work dealt with a resolution of less than 100 by just over 100. This has nothing to do with best presentation.

As for Blueray? It is a difficult sell. Especially as, at the moment, the content offered seems to be primarily targeted at mid 20s playstation owners.

I watched No Country for Old Men on Blueray yesterday using a well set-up Pioneer Kuro 1080p screen and saw much that I didn't see at the cinema. Not completely sure what to make of that... but the case for working with Master Primes for that film was very strong.

regards

Michael Lindsay

 

[Stephen Gentle]

Blu-Ray is quite irritating - it's quite a nice format, and the players are almost at acceptable prices, but the movies are just stupidly expensive... They're usually about one and a half to two times as much (and sometimes even more) expensive than DVDs!

Seriously, if they were selling Blu-Ray for the same price (or at least only slightly more) than DVDs, the marketshare would jump up massively.

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

Here in Austria the new DVD release costs about 24.95 Euro and the same in Blu-Ray 29.95.

It's 5 Euro more.

I've got Kubrick BR collection and Godfather BR set set, Antonioni's Red Dessert and Shine a Light by Stones/Scorsese on Blu-Ray.

Definitely Blur-Ray wins over DVD quality and it's like a real theater cinema,

even more because you are at home, you can adjust your picture, etc....

 

[Uli Plank]

Same here, I just found "Baraka" on BluRay for 20 € including shipping on Ebay. And watching it on my wall sized screen with a calibrated Panasonic PT2000 and a decent surround sound by Denon and Heco is very close to the experience in a good theatre.

But then I'm a cinephile, and the success of BluRay needs to be carried by the masses. Will they? Or is Apple TV and other online offers it's death?

Plus, my collection of a few hundred DVDs in SD still looks quite good on it when upscaled by a PS3…

BTW, I like your citation from Godard!

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

Same here, I just found "Baraka" on BluRay for 20 € including shipping on Ebay. And watching it on my wall sized screen with a calibrated Panasonic PT2000 and a decent surround sound by Denon and Heco is very close to the experience in a good theatre.

But then I'm a cinephile, and the success of BluRay needs to be carried by the masses. Will they? Or is Apple TV and other online offers it's death?

Plus, my collection of a few hundred DVDs in SD still looks quite good on it when upscaled by a PS3…

BTW, I like your citation from Godard!

Uli,

you are right DVDs are pretty good upscaled even on 30" Apple display.

BR is still elite thing.

Also ol' Godard is always fresh and inspiring.

 

[ericyoung]

Are you serious? You're talking about a device that has access to wi-fi and cell phone networks and you think that is more secure than a physical medium?

For someone on the go, I think the iPhone dailies are better than not getting a chance to watch them at all. I hope no serious director would base his decisions on that, but I do think small screens have their place.

I think he meant that ipod/iphone dailies are too low resolution to be worth pirating for even SD DVD sales, but yes they aren't secure distribution systems!