Batman Begins on Blu this week!

[view-it-purple]

Not that you need any more smacking down...but why would there be any ports remaining at this point and why hasn't Warner been taking advantage of the extra capacity with lossless audio on recent releases? I'm getting bleeping sick of some folks using HD DVD as a scapegoat for Warner's recent record.

If your going to blame for anything blame them for things they did, like making our copy of Blade Runner 5 disks instead of 2 BD 50s using seamless branching.

[vinnie97]

:P - that could very well be. Talk about wasted real estate, eh?

[kowhite]

If your going to blame for anything blame them for things they did, like making our copy of Blade Runner 5 disks instead of 2 BD 50s using seamless branching.

Considering that two of the discs in that set are plain DVDs, it seems reasonable to say at best, without HD DVD, you might've gotten a 4 disc set. There were some obvious practical reasons that had nothing to do with HD DVD for why it's such a large set...you'd have to go and blame DVD too.

Granted, when someone offers me a 5 disc set packed to the brim with content for one of my favorite films ever supported by a fantastic remaster at a very reasonable price...personally, I'm not going to waste my time blaming anyone.

[Favelle]

Granted, when someone offers me a 5 disc set packed to the brim with content for one of my favorite films ever supported by a fantastic remaster at a very reasonable price...personally, I'm not going to waste my time blaming anyone.

+1. I wholeheartely agree.

[vinnie97]

I agree. The x360 add-on was what got me into High Def. If it was not for that I prob. would not have ANYTHING that is in my sig. right now. Yeah I would eventually get it but nowhere near this fast. I'm more the outdoors type and play sports and workout and stuff. I prob spend about two (2) more hours on average a day inside because of HD.

I envy you...my workouts are limited due to some bleeping physical debility (nerve damage in the elbows). It's a good thing I have a PC and HT.

[The BJD]

It's sad that Warner just ported the HD-DUD encode over cause if you watch The Dark Knight Prologue on the Blu-Ray, You can see how it could have looked.

At least there are not a lot of lousy ports left and Warner may finally start taking advantage of the larger capacity.

I have heard over and over about blu looking better and it is totally false. I have both formats and have yet to see anything as good as the Matrix, Hot Fuzz or Zodiac and not a single soundtrack on par with Bourne Ultimatum. It is absolute bullshit. How many HD DVD versions of The Bucket List or One Flew Over were there? The fact that there can be more data for audio is a fair argument but this argument about how HD DVD looks worse is shit.

[view-it-purple]

Considering that two of the discs in that set are plain DVDs, it seems reasonable to say at best, without HD DVD, you might've gotten a 4 disc set. There were some obvious practical reasons that had nothing to do with HD DVD for why it's such a large set...you'd have to go and blame DVD too.

Granted, when someone offers me a 5 disc set packed to the brim with content for one of my favorite films ever supported by a fantastic remaster at a very reasonable price...personally, I'm not going to waste my time blaming anyone.

+1. I wholeheartely agree.

You 2 would argue over the color of $h*t. Save your hypocrisy for someone who might be in the market to buy. I wholeheartedly think you can +1 yourself.

[hstewarth]

This was one of the titles that was out on HD-DVD and I told myself I would wait because I was sure it was coming to blu-ray. This is a sweet day for Blu and with Dark Knight coming it out it's a perfect time to release it.

I watch a rented Blockbuster version of this movie last night - wow - so signifcantly better than my HD DVD. It was quite amazing. I did wish it had full DTS sound - wish Warner would do that.

[stevo4]

I watch a rented Blockbuster version of this movie last night - wow - so signifcantly better than my HD DVD. It was quite amazing. I did wish it had full DTS sound - wish Warner would do that.

Signicantly better?
And how is that, since they both use the same video encode?

Other than fanboi rubbish.

[Favelle]

You 2 would argue over the color of $h*t. Save your hypocrisy for someone who might be in the market to buy. I wholeheartedly think you can +1 yourself.

Spazz much??

[Favelle]

I watch a rented Blockbuster version of this movie last night - wow - so signifcantly better than my HD DVD. It was quite amazing. I did wish it had full DTS sound - wish Warner would do that.

I laughed out loud....

[Fettastic]

The PIP on Batman Begins looks a hell of a lot better on the Blu-ray. The windows are much larger and higher resolution.

Just ONE MORE reason Blu-ray spanks HD DVD.

[The BJD]

The PIP on Batman Begins looks a hell of a lot better on the Blu-ray. The windows are much larger and higher resolution.

Just ONE MORE reason Blu-ray spanks HD DVD.

Is that worth a double dip?

[vinnie97]

I watch a rented Blockbuster version of this movie last night - wow - so signifcantly better than my HD DVD. It was quite amazing. I did wish it had full DTS sound - wish Warner would do that.

I'll take it you were having a laugh...no way you can believe any of what you just spouted, is there? TrueHD is as sonically full as DTS(-MA) (lossless codecs, the both of them) and then there's the aforementioned inconvenient fact that the video encodes are identical. I have my doubts that you even owned the HD DVD.

[Flex Mentallo]

I wholeheartedly think you can +1 yourself.

Sometimes, when the lights are off and no one's home, it's okay to + 1 yourself too.

My brother, your secrets are safe with us.