Blu-ray's 300 Wins 'Best High-Def DVD' Award

[Poke]

Blu-ray's 300 Wins 'Best High-Def DVD' Award

Home Media Magazine issues first annual awards for high-def discs.
By Swanni

Washington, D.C. (December 6, 2007) -- Warner's 300 is available in HD DVD and Blu-ray, but the latter version captured the top honors in the first ever High-Def Disc Awards.

The Blu-ray 300 was named the High-Def Title of the year by Home Media Magazine, which sponsored the High-Def Disc Awards. (300 was based loosely on the ancient battle between the Persians and Spartans.)

The victory will undoubtedly give Blu-ray boosters reason to crow. But the HD DVD edition of 300 won the award for 'Best Bonus Feature' for its bluescreen picture-in-picture.


The bluescreen PIP allows viewers to watch a scene while simultaneously looking at how it was filmed in the smaller window.

The awards, which were announced this week during the High-Def 2.0 conference in Century City, California, also named Casino Royale as the top Blu-ray live action film and Hot Fuzz as the best HD DVD live action movie.

In other awards:

* Ratatouille (Blu-ray) won for Best Animation.

* The Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Blu-ray) captured the Best Picture Quality award.

* Transformers (HD DVD) won for Best Audio Quality.

* Universal Studios was honored for 'Most Innovative Use of New Technology' for its Internet-based shopping feature.

 

[IcEWoLF]

^-^ Blu-ray steals the show!

 

[BlackHitachi]

^-^ Blu-ray steals the show!

Really no surprise!! The movie looked and sounded GREAT!:up

 

[JoeSp]

^-^ Blu-ray steals the show!

Looks almost like a tie. Both formats were honored (as should be so as this whole awards thing doesn't look contrived) and the awards showed that good stuff is coming out of both formats. Now if we could just squeeeeze them together. Nah, that would be too easy.

 

[TheForce]

Can someone explain how Blu Ray 300 is better than HD DVD 300 ? I have the HD DVD version here and was wondering what I'm missing from the Blu Ray version. Should I rent the BluRay version and do my own call or is the difference that obvious?

I have both players and am format neutral.

 

[vurbano]

Can someone explain how Blu Ray 300 is better than HD DVD 300 ?

No one can. The two discs are transparent in Video and TrueHD gives the same sound as uncompressed PCM.

 

[tnsprin]

Can someone explain how Blu Ray 300 is better than HD DVD 300 ? I have the HD DVD version here and was wondering what I'm missing from the Blu Ray version. Should I rent the BluRay version and do my own call or is the difference that obvious?

I have both players and am format neutral.

Try it and let us know your thoughts. If they used the same encode (vc-1,AVC, etc), I would expect no difference.

Note 300 is also in the Amazon 2 for 1 sale, if you were so inclined.

 

[TheForce]

Try it and let us know your thoughts. If they used the same encode (vc-1,AVC, etc), I would expect no difference.

When it comes in to Blockbuster I'll rent it and let you all know. They have it but it has been checked out for the past 2 weeks. Another that is available to me in both formats is Phantom of the Opera. As this was my first HD DVD to rent at BlockBuster and the PQ was so stunning it would be a good one to compare as well.

 

[diogen]

IIRC, there wasn't a single movie yet that Warner did separate encodings for HD and BD.
Therefore, whatever differences you might see watching those, will be player/transport/TV related.

Diogen.

 

[BlackHitachi]

No one can. The two discs are transparent in Video and TrueHD gives the same sound as uncompressed PCM.

TRUEHD is that the same as DD+??

 

[diogen]

TRUEHD is that the same as DD+??

No, it isn't.
HD DVD Review: 300 | High-Def Digest

Warner has supplied both the HD DVD and the Blu-ray with matching Dolby TrueHD 5.1 surround tracks (48kHz/16-bit/1.7Mbps), while the Blu-ray is also graced with an additional PCM 5.1 surround option (48kHz/16-bit/6.9mbps).

Diogen.

 

[BlackHitachi]

No, it isn't.
HD DVD Review: 300 | High-Def Digest


Diogen.

Then why are all the red duds up in arms over DD+??

 

[diogen]

Then why are all the red duds up in arms over DD+??

I didn't know JoeSp is a red dud...
And with the exception of him - and maybe you - I haven't seen any other red dud up in arms.

Diogen.

 

[BlackHitachi]

I didn't know JoeSp is a red dud...
And with the exception of him - and maybe you - I haven't seen any other red dud up in arms.

Diogen.

No red Dud I HAVE BOTH FORMATS!! You should buy both and then you can make a very good sound quality test for yourself!:up

I guess if I'm a dud it would be GREEN!

 

[vurbano]

TRUEHD is that the same as DD+??

TrueHD is the same as PCM when it is uncompressed. DD+ can be indistinguishable depending on the sound of the master. http://www.satelliteguys.us/hd-dvd-...h-def-faq-uncompressed-vs-lossless-audio.html