Blu Ray

Rain

Just got our first Blu Ray player, along with Olympus Has Fallen. Sue me, I'm a Gerard Butler groupie. Anywho...I'm not very impressed. It does not look horrible, it just does not look amazing. There was another Blu Ray thread around here, and it basically said some movies look great, some not so much. I think that's true...unless all blu ray is not very "wow". I also own World War Z, maybe I'll try that. Or maybe I need something that is a visual whore, IE Star Trek.

The Kid

Could be the box your watchin it on??

james40

Get the first new Star Trek and turn out all the lights. Badass dude.

New Boots

Just to make sure here. You have a 1080P Tv? Running on HDMI? The TV is set to run at its peak? Blu Ray player is set to run full blast?

JSaint

Also if the cord is hdmi does it support 1080p? I switched from a cheap cord to some top of the line monster cables and dang did it make a difference. Using them on a 600hz refresh plasma and wow do my games look good as well as any movies I watch.

Martel

JSaint:

Also if the cord is hdmi does it support 1080p? I switched from a cheap cord to some top of the line monster cables and dang did it make a difference. Using them on a 600hz refresh plasma and wow do my games look good as well as any movies I watch.

Just to be clear, there are great HDMI cables for much less than monster. But there are some really bad ones, too. Cords make a diff as do the other things mentioned. I don't have a blu ray yet, but we watch a lot of HD streams and such and there is a huge change on our TV if the stream downgrades to regular if the bandwidth gets used up. But not a huge change on everything.

Rain

Ok, so I watched a whole move instead of just a few minutes.It never looked bad. But when it looked good, it was really a "wow" moment. Mostly outside scenes, they are really vivid.

jthanatos

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raisindot

Martel

jthanatos

Martel:

The only disagreement I have is the quality of the cable/connection. Some cheap cables break easily, either over the run or at the connector, or the connector itself is shoddy. Especially if you'll be plugging/unplugging the cable a lot for some reason. That's why I said what I said.

This is very true. The life expectancy uggedness of cheaper cables is somewhat suspect. I just was trying to clarify a misconception encouraged by Monster brand and their ilk that short run cables have any impact on the quality of the digital signal.

Martel

jthanatos:

Martel:

The only disagreement I have is the quality of the cable/connection. Some cheap cables break easily, either over the run or at the connector, or the connector itself is shoddy. Especially if you'll be plugging/unplugging the cable a lot for some reason. That's why I said what I said.

This is very true. The life expectancy uggedness of cheaper cables is somewhat suspect. I just was trying to clarify a misconception encouraged by Monster brand and their ilk that short run cables have any impact on the quality of the digital signal.

Yeah, I hear you. There absolutely are quality inexpensive cables out there. Digital signal is digital signal, but it has to get from out to in!

jgibv

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OR! Just go get one of the new 4K TV's!

jthanatos

New Boots:

OR! Just go get one of the new 4K TV's!

This one seems reasonable.

Rain

"The TV is one of those new 4K (also known as Ultra HD) sets that has a super-sharp resolution. Most HD TVs today show about 1,000 pixels across the screen. Ultra HD TVs have about 4,000 pixels. It may sound like a gimmick, but if you see one of these things in real life, you'll get it. It's like looking through a window."

jgibv

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phobicsquirrel

Olympus wasn't the best bluray but it looked good. It had a lot of black crush and the cgi was crap. I'm running a 65 inch panasonic plasma and it's been professionally tuned. So trust me when I say there are better blurays. Any of the Pixar are amazing, also check out transformers 3. You can go to bluray.com and check out reviews from there, that's where I go before deciding to get a bluray. They are pretty good at picture and audio reviews.

phobicsquirrel

Rain

phobicsquirrel:

Olympus wasn't the best bluray but it looked good. It had a lot of black crush and the cgi was crap. I'm running a 65 inch panasonic plasma and it's been professionally tuned. So trust me when I say there are better blurays. Any of the Pixar are amazing, also check out transformers 3. You can go to bluray.com and check out reviews from there, that's where I go before deciding to get a bluray. They are pretty good at picture and audio reviews.

Yeah, anytime they showed outside shots I could really tell it was bluray, plus the snow was crazy cool looking.

phobicsquirrel

Yup. Other than the pic issues the audio was amazing and I liked the movie, it was fun. Looking forward to the 2nd.

Rain

They're making another one?! Sorry, I love Gerard Butler.

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Rain:

They're making another one?! Sorry, I love Gerard Butler.

That's a nice closet you have there Rain

phobicsquirrel

Rain:

They're making another one?! Sorry, I love Gerard Butler.

Yup. I too enjoy his action flicks.

jthanatos

jgibv

Rain

Just got Star Trek Into Darkness. Pumped to lower the lights, get some candles going and.....oh, dear. Anywho, I think it should look great.

Rain

So, Star Trek looked great.Does that surprise anyone?

james40