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No, but I guess that you (and Sony) both do...

Posted by Charles Hansen (M) on March 4, 2007 at 10:04:58

In Reply to: Do you need a better projector? (nt) posted by Ole Lund Christensen on March 4, 2007 at 08:59:54:

The new Perfect Vision (available online for free) had this to say:

With The Fifth Element, one of the
first Blu-ray discs to be released,
everyone expected a reference quality
title like the DVD. Instead,
enthusiasts were shocked to find
that the Blu-ray version of the movie
was mastered from a sub-par print
full of dirt and scratches—all clearly
visible when watching the disc.

Hmmm. Not a very auspicious beginning, eh?

And that's not all. Here's what they said about another popular title:

House of Flying Daggers, another
early Sony Pictures release, was
similarly pilloried for looking very
soft.

The track record isn't looking so good, is it? More from the same article:

Sony is now examining the
masters of all new titles to verify that
image quality is up to snuff before
approving the transfer; masters that are
found to be sub-par will be redone.
(Why the studio didn’t do this in the first
place remains a mystery.)

It doesn't really sound like they know what they are doing does it? Or maybe they just don't really have their hearts into it. One final quote from the article:

As for the ongoing complaints that
many Blu-ray movies look soft and have
more artifacts than HD DVD titles, video
guru Joe Kane points to a number of
contributing factors, including the way
film-to-video transfers are performed
and problems with the MPEG-2 codec
itself.

So maybe Blu-ray has some inherent problems. Maybe HD-DVD would be better. But in the end, it doesn't really matter because they will both flop in the general marketplace.

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