HT Owners: What are your favorite movies or clips to show off your Home Theater
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That's why I put Swordfish on my list. The front->back travel of the explosion and the immersion effect of being in the middle of it really shows of a nice HT system.
Band of Brothers, is excellent for surround.
Beginning of Superman Returns
Cars
King Kong
Bad Boys II
For good sub demos:
Finding Nemo, submarine sliding off underwater shelf
Finding Nemo, Darla tapping on the fish tank glass
The Butterfly Effect
War of the Worlds
Beginning of Superman Returns
Cars
King Kong
Bad Boys II
For good sub demos:
Finding Nemo, submarine sliding off underwater shelf
Finding Nemo, Darla tapping on the fish tank glass
The Butterfly Effect
War of the Worlds
The daughter (Dakota Fanning) screaming in the War or the Worlds just kills my ears in my HT. She's got one heck of a set of lungs...sheesh!
How about the part at the beginning of First Contact where Picard is listening to music and Riker walks in?long_time_DNC said:
New add to the list: Eagles Farewell Tour HD DVD...
Oh yeah, that's a definite speaker-killer too!
I agree on the Eagles Farewell Tour DVD. That's a show-off disc.
I agree on the Eagles Farewell Tour DVD. That's a show-off disc.
I first watched First Contact from PPV and it rattled the woofers then at that part...(back then I was overdriving 250 watt speakers with 500 watt's per )
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Yeah, I had to replace the drivers in my twin downward-firing 12" subs once also. A little mistake on calibration of the LFE setting on my Denon A/V pre-amp several years ago (my fault), killed the drivers. I replaced them with a pair of far beefier drivers and much more carefully calibrated the LFE setting. They've sounded fantastic ever since. The sound of a dying woofer (or woofers) is a sad, painful thing...
When they come out, the Season 3 Battlestar Galactica Dvd's and HD DVD's have some good effects...
Agree with Kong. Even on regular DVD there are few movies that envelop you in surround sound the way that jungle scenes do. I think subtle effects are far more impressive when showing off sound equipment than bombastic explosions and action which are typically too loud to be directionally distinguishable. However if that is your thing, Kong has that too.
Another great reference is the Planet Earth series. Picture and surround are exceptional.
I have from Exodus to Crossroads II archived in HD...
1 month to Razor HD DVD...Not quite the same as you guys are talking about, but throw in the Eagles Hell Freezes Over DVD on DTS...shows it off in a different way!
