Category Archives: Blu-ray

Region A

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

Madman Entertainment today sent me the Blu-ray versions of Afro Samurai and Afro Samurai: Resurrection. Both look like they are going to be very interesting. The reason for this Blog post is just to chuckle over an interesting little quirk … Continue reading →

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Old Blu-ray Players

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

Over the last three years I have developed a number of standard measurements and tests that I conduct on Blu-ray players, and now I have a spreadsheet with the details for more than twenty players recorded. This includes such things … Continue reading →

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Woodstock on Blu-ray

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

The latest issue of Australian HI-FI magazine carries my reviews of the Blu-ray versions of Sleeping Beauty and Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music. As I note in the latter review: No chapter listing is provided with this version … Continue reading →

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HD Pulp Fiction cometh

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

I was just trawling through Roadshow Entertainment’s publicity website to get ahold of a packshot of A History of Violence for my forthcoming Blu-ray review, when I stumbled on the fact that Pulp Fiction is due for release by Roadshow … Continue reading →

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The Transporter – a comparison

Posted on September 26, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

Go here to see my Blu-ray vs DVD comparison. A sample (DVD left, Blu-ray right):

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The Departed – a comparison

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

Go here to see my Blu-ray vs DVD comparison. A sample (DVD left, Blu-ray right):

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The 6th Day – a comparison

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

Go here to see my Blu-ray vs DVD comparison.

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Paramount’s BD-Live commitment

Posted on September 10, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

A while back I did a ‘Ten Best’ piece on Blu-rays in Sound and Image. Best picture quality, best sound and so on. For Best BD-Live I put down Transformers on the basis of its downloadable ‘Intelligence Mode’. As it … Continue reading →

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BD-Live Travails

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

Here’s an email I sent last night to ‘BD-Live Help’. I mentioned here a while back how my BD-Live logon with The Da Vinci Code had failed. I whinged to Sony’s PR company at the product launch mentioned in the … Continue reading →

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Blu-ray Error handling

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

Early this year I foolishly purchased a Blu-ray disc from one of those shops that insist on opening the sealed cases. It wasn’t until a couple of weeks ago that I got around to doing anything with the disc, and … Continue reading →

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