300 Becomes the Best Selling HD Movie Ever in Its First Week.

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Kwaad said:

Warlord_ said:
I heard 300 was a bad HD movie, it was far to dark and really grainy for the extra costs, while the normal DVD copy performed just aswell in a upconverting DVD player. This was posted on the Sony forums.

 

Uhh, Yeah.

I also heard ferrari's suck.

 

I have both BluRay and DVD collectors edition. 300 is THE movie I care about this year. I'm just gonna say this.

DVD = GARBAGE

BluRay = OMFGWOW

I mean this seiously. That grain-y ness, is actually part of the movie. Kinda like the bronzing, also like the darkness.

I saw it at the movie theater 2 times. Both times, I felt it looked 'slightly' out of focus, and dark.

Watched it on BluRay. It looked perfectly crisp and clear, and not quite as dark.

The DVD version, was (at least seemed with a good up-converting DVD player. (Samsung, Sony, and my PS3)) Looked highly out of focus. There was next to no detail, on the closeups, I couldnt see a QUARTER of what I could on BluRay.

You picked the wrong movie to bash on HD. Spiderman3 HD over SD, wont be near as impressive as 300 HD over SD.

Dont say ****, unless you've seen from experience.

EDIT: I also want to point that I only paid 3$ more for my BluRay over my DVD version. So cost wasnt a big deal.

I must have watched a different movie last night...

All the detail is washed out on the HD version as well, so I don't see where you get off claiming the DVD lacks detail. The problem is the movie is so stylized and so heavily altered that, at the end of the day, its fairly simple from a visual standpoint. I don't mean to say this is a bad thing, just that the film tries to emulate the graphic novel, and to that end most fine detail is washed away.

Edges aren't quite as sharp on the DVD version, and the grain is less pronounced, but thats about it. The HD version offers little more from a visual standpoint than the DVD version, and is lacking in the features. If you have BD or HD player, than by all means go ahead. However, this is definitly not something worth "going HD" for.

And yeah, you're crazy with this "out of focus" stuff...