Category Archives: Blu-ray

Super-dedicated WALL-E

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

I was scanning the Blu-ray version of WALL-E with BDInfo and discovered that it is organised very differently to the US one. That one apparently has the movie, with a run length of 1:37:25 in a single file (20000.M2TS). The … Continue reading →

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Eight bits of noise?

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

In the previous post I asked at the end: ‘Is 24 bits it worth it?’ I want to do an extensive post on this in due course, but let me first make my point briefly. In that previous post I … Continue reading →

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24 bit sound vs 16 bit sound and DTS-HD Master Audio

Posted on April 11, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

I’ve run BDInfo on the forthcoming Australian release of Slumdog Millionaire on Blu-ray from Icon Film Distribution. This turns out to be a very different encode to the US version. The main title details of the US version are here. … Continue reading →

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That’s a lot of bits

Posted on April 7, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

I’ve just been analysing the new Blu-ray release of the 1958 musical Gigi. This gets Dolby TrueHD 5.1 channel sound for the English track, backed up with Dolby Digital 5.1 at 640kbps. Foreign language audio is provided in French, German, … Continue reading →

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Finalising The Fifth Element

Posted on April 5, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

Well, I have finally completed my almost-proof that the Australian Blu-ray version of The Fifth Element has identical video to the US remastered version (see two posts down). To do this I extracted the first 999 ‘I’ frames from each … Continue reading →

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Posted on April 4, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

While examining The Fifth Element I noticed that there was a one minute long video file on the disc, with no apparent linkage from the menu. So I dragged it into a video player and discovered that it was a … Continue reading →

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Slander Sony through jumping to conclusions

Posted on April 3, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

Thanks to reader James from Sydney for lending me The Fifth Element on Blu-ray. It arrived in the mail this morning. Thanks also to Theng from Perth, who also offered to make it available. The reason I wanted to examine … Continue reading →

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Is the Australian Blu-ray of The Fifth Element good quality?

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

It has been alleged on a forum that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has dumped its substandard initial Blu-ray encode of The Fifth Element on the Australian market. I find this highly unlikely, but have been unable to get ahold of … Continue reading →

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Serenity re-encode improves quality

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

A couple of posts ago I mentioned that the Universal Pictures (Australasia) Pty Ltd Blu-ray release of First Blood had an identical video encode to the previous HD DVD release. I have now checked both Total Recall and Serenity, which … Continue reading →

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Wasting Space?

Posted on March 29, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

Last night I watched Pale Rider, a Clint Eastwood Western released on Blu-ray by Warner Bros. I strongly suspect it is the same as Warner Bros releases of the movie elsewhere in the world. I find this disc interesting for … Continue reading →

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