Blue ray Question

[Garethw]

Has anybody else that owns a BR player experienced a grainy picture quality to some films?

X men 3 for instance is incredibly grainy in places, so much so that it looks pixelated (Is that a word?).

I know that some film makers deliberately include the grain to literally make a film look more gritty (300 being an example of this). But its still incredibly frustrating.

Whats the opinions on here regarding the HD movie experience. Is it overhyped?

 

[WeasteDevil]

Not seen that particular film, but a lot of the time poor quality is down to the choice some publishers make as to how to encode the video. A lot of early Blu-ray movies were cheaply done using MPEG-2 (which was designed for DVD and broadcast of standard definition digital video) and suffered from that.

 

[Garethw]

All in all i'm well impressed with the PS3's BR player. I was watching The Departed the other day and the quality was outstanding.

Check out open season on BRD the quality is amazing.

 

[WeasteDevil]

Hitachi Creates 100GB Blu-ray Disc

Hitachi’s disc they have made required only the standard head and just a firmware update to either your current standalone player or your current PS3 and you would be good to go.

Hitachi is trying to make the signal quality more stable before releasing the discs for the public.

Hitachi is also already working in an eight-layer disc which can hold 200GB.

 

[Jimble]

only grainy one I have experienced so far is Full Metal Jacket, assuming this is just because it is an older film

have to say the quality HDDVD and Blu Ray is astonishing at home