'Goblet of Fire' - High-Def Digest review

[jed]

Just posted Kenneth's review of 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.' Although this Blu-ray edition lacks the exclusive "In-Movie Experience" of its HD DVD counterpart, Kenneth says a stunning transfer, a bold PCM mix and a nice collection of standard supplements still make this a very strong release.

Full review here:
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/292/...letoffire.html

[Tonkpilsnut]

Thought this would be the verdict. Glad I waited and didn't buy the box set, we got one returned at my work so we got to look at it, what horrible packaging. The dvd cases are generic cd cases at best, with some discs coming in an envelope-type case. Rather have the original cases myself. Glad to see this one lives up to the PoA and OotP transfers, nice!

[crazzeto]

Wow, I was supprised to see the video upgrade between the UK (I have this one) v. the native US version... I suppose that is what impatience gets me, lol... Actually I'm not at all dissapointed with my UK version, it's a nice upgrade over standard def to be sure, but still supprising non-the-less

[squall4008]

ok, why couldn't warner have added the IMEs on OotP and GoF? wouldn't that have been a better first outting for IME than Terminator 3? hopefully they will rerelease 5/4 with them eventually, maybe around when HBP comes out

[squall4008]

Originally Posted by Tonkpilsnut

Thought this would be the verdict. Glad I waited and didn't buy the box set, we got one returned at my work so we got to look at it, what horrible packaging. The dvd cases are generic cd cases at best, with some discs coming in an envelope-type case. Rather have the original cases myself. Glad to see this one lives up to the PoA and OotP transfers, nice!

yeah i saw the box set at Best Buy the other day it looks terrible

[Josh Z]

Originally Posted by squall4008

ok, why couldn't warner have added the IMEs on OotP and GoF? wouldn't that have been a better first outting for IME than Terminator 3?

It's probably a combination of the movies' length and the amount of content in the IME. Terminator 3 is pretty short and the IME content is frankly pretty sparse. Since Warner isn't ready with true Profile 1.1 picture-in-picture capability yet, they've simply included a separate encoding for those scenes with IME content and seamlessly branched them to the rest of the movie. Doing so for the Harry Potters may have created disc space issues.

Just a theory. I don't know for sure.