TrueHD won't fit on HD DVD

[j_garcia]

I will be picking up Pan's Labyrinth for sure (BD). Hey, maybe we can take those mini reviews over to the movies area and discuss them separate from this thread? I have comments on quite a few of those BDs.

 

[Gasman]

You pre-ordered that one yet?

Yeah, there are about 10 movies I have (in HD) that are not on the list.
Including a few doubles I ended up with (example, 2 Terminators, and 2 DVE HDs)
(also not on the list is another set of 5 free movies I have yet to send in)(those extra 5 are BDs by chance)

I am seriously considering Pan's Lab., but really had wished they would have added at least a 2.0 English track.
Granted, I more than likely WILL get it for the 7.1 track.
It was a superb movie, I do have the SD version.

 

[j_garcia]

I bought the 2 disc SE of Pan's Labyrinth before they announced the BD would be released in the US. I also saw it in the theater

 

[Gasman]

Well it is a disease, a disease of can't stop buying.
Picked up a bunch more BDs, and 3 more Transformers (14.99 each)
See my post here - http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showthread.php?p=320867#post320867

 

[dobyblue]

My current BD collection:

Received

• 300
• A Christmas Story
• A Few Good Men
• Alien vs. Predator
• American Psycho
• Apocalypto
• Arlington Road
• Beside You In Time
• Big Fish
• Black Hawk Down
• Blood Diamond
• Bram Stoker's Dracula
• Bruce Almighty
• Casino Royale
• Click
• Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds
• déjà vu
• Dinosaur
• Donnie Brasco
• Enemy of the State
• Enter the Dragon
• Face/Off
• Fantastic Four
• Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer
• Final Fantasy The Spirits Within
• Flatliners
• Galapagos
• Happy Feet
• Hellboy
• Identity
• Immortal Beloved
• Into The Blue
• Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
• Kingdom of Heaven
• Ladder 49
• Lady in the Water
• Layer Cake
• Lethal Weapon 1
• Lethal Weapon 2
• Letters from Iwo Jima
• March of the Penguins
• Mission Impossible
• Pearl Harbor
• Phantom of the Opera
• Pirates of the Caribbean Curse of the Black Pearl
• Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest
• Planet Earth
• Reign of Fire
• Speed
• Superman II
• Superman Returns
• Superman The Movie
• Swordfish
• Tears of the Sun
• The Day After Tomorrow
• The Departed
• The Fifth Element (remastered)
• The Island
• The Italian Job
• The Patriot
• The Prestige
• The Searchers
• The Terminator
• The Wild
• Total Recall
• Troy
• Underworld : Unrated
• Waiting…
• Wild Things
• World Trade Center
• Wyatt Earp

Ordered or Pre-ordered

• Aviator
• Die Hard
• Die Hard 2 : Die Harder
• Die Hard 3 : Die Hard with a Vengeance
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Led Zeppelin : The Song Remains The Same
• Live Free or Die Hard
• Lost Season 3
• Ocean's 11
• Ocean's 12
• Ocean's 13
• Pirates of the Caribbean At World's End
• Spider-man
• Spider-man 2
• Spider-man 3
• The Shining
• Twister

Will pre-order for Christmas

• Halloween
• 28 Days Later
• 28 Weeks Later
• The Fly
• From Hell
• Robocop
• Cars
• Mr. Brooks
• Ratatouille
• I, Robot
• Cast Away
• Independence Day
• Ronin
• The Simpsons Movie
• Superbad
• Stealth
• Rising Sun
• Revenge

 

[dobyblue]

Overall the audio on Blu-ray is reviewed consistently higher than HD DVD.

HDD 257HD/270BD, HTS 231HD/239BD, HTF 98HD/97BD, UD 150HD/133BD, Talk 288HD/298BD
09.28.07

[B]HD DVD	 PQ 	 SQ 	 TOTAL [/B]		[B]Blu-ray	 PQ 	 SQ 	 TOTAL [/B]
HighDef	 3.89 	 3.62 	 3.75 		HighDef	 3.97 	 3.83 	 3.90 
HTSpot	 3.94 	 3.86 	 3.90 		HTSpot	 4.07 	 4.27 	 4.17 
DVDTalk	 3.64 	 3.49 	 3.56 		DVDTalk	 3.67 	 3.72 	 3.70 
HTForum	 3.90 	 3.68 	 3.79 		HTForum	 4.28 	 4.07 	 4.18 
UpDisc	 3.98 	 3.80 	 3.89 		UpDisc	 4.03 	 4.12 	 4.07 
[B]Totals	 3.84 	 3.67 	 3.76 [/B]		[B]Totals	 3.94	 3.96 	 3.95 [/B]

That's around 1,000 Blu-ray reviews and 1,000 HD DVD reviews compared.
Blu-ray has over three times as many releases with lossless audio tracks and perhaps that could have something to do with it.

 

[dobyblue]

Multilayer discs exist now (10 layers? 150G), but what I read was that it is the players that can't handle them so media isn't the issue. I believe that physical media will ultimately go away so the discs will not be the limitation.

Hitachi have announced a 100GB Blu-ray disc that will only need a firmware upgrade to work in all existing Blu-ray players, unlike the 100 and 200GB Blu-ray discs from TDK and Panasonic that would be for PC usage only as they would require a different configuration.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Overall the audio on Blu-ray is reviewed consistently higher than HD DVD.

HDD 257HD/270BD, HTS 231HD/239BD, HTF 98HD/97BD, UD 150HD/133BD, Talk 288HD/298BD
09.28.07

[B]HD DVD	 PQ 	 SQ 	 TOTAL [/B]		[B]Blu-ray	 PQ 	 SQ 	 TOTAL [/B]
HighDef	 3.89 	 3.62 	 3.75 		HighDef	 3.97 	 3.83 	 3.90 
HTSpot	 3.94 	 3.86 	 3.90 		HTSpot	 4.07 	 4.27 	 4.17 
DVDTalk	 3.64 	 3.49 	 3.56 		DVDTalk	 3.67 	 3.72 	 3.70 
HTForum	 3.90 	 3.68 	 3.79 		HTForum	 4.28 	 4.07 	 4.18 
UpDisc	 3.98 	 3.80 	 3.89 		UpDisc	 4.03 	 4.12 	 4.07 
[B]Totals	 3.84 	 3.67 	 3.76 [/B]		[B]Totals	 3.94	 3.96 	 3.95 [/B]

That's around 1,000 Blu-ray reviews and 1,000 HD DVD reviews compared.
Blu-ray has over three times as many releases with lossless audio tracks and perhaps that could have something to do with it.

It's really hard to compare even the same movie because people are using two totally different HD machines. How do you know if the BD players themselves (hardware) are just outperforming the HDDVD players? Now with the new upcoming Samsung BD-UP5000 Combo Reference player, it will be a better comparison between just the movies (software).