Category Archives: BD-Live

Guest comment on Warner Bros disc policy

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Stephen Dawson

This is in regard to the previous post, in which I’ve disclosed Warner Bros’ rather strange actions on disc reviews. I passed this on to my editors, as well as to the local head of Warner Bros here in Australia. … Continue reading →

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File list complications?

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

Pixar Blu-ray discs typically have the main content spread over lots of files in order to facilitate the delivery of different on-screen text languages. 3D discs typically have multiple files to support the format. They use a regular *.m2ts file … Continue reading →

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Roadshow Entertainment releases

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

Roadshow Entertainment releases. I see that Roadshow Entertainment will be releasing the Lord of the Rings Trilogy on Blu-ray as a box set on 5 August 2010, with an RRP of $99.95 for anyone that wants to save a few … Continue reading →

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Video vs PC settings

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

As a comment to this post, Victor suggests: You made some recommendations on settings in your S&I artical which I found useful, at least to confirm my own observations and assumptions. There was another setting I changed which was not … Continue reading →

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Gone With the Wind: Blu-ray vs DVD

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

I think this is the oldest live-action movie I’ve done yet. Half a dozen comparison shots here, and here’s a sample (DVD to left, Blu-ray to right):

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A further Blu-ray giveaway – Angels and Demons

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

This is a ‘Testmold’ disc, which means that it don’t have a proper label and so forth, nor a proper Blu-ray box, nor a slick, but it works just like a bought one. Has both Extended and Theatrical versions my … Continue reading →

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How’s the Ticker going?

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

Recent Universal Blu-ray discs have a ‘Ticker’ feature on their menu system. Sort of. The ticker is a bar of text in the top right part of the screen and it is supposed to display some messages that came with … Continue reading →

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BD-Live on Star Trek

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

The Star Trek Blu-ray comes with an excellent package of extras: Commentary; Starfleet Vessel Simulator (graphical info feature); 9 Deleted scenes with Optional Commentary (1080p24, MPEG4 AVC, 2 x DD2.0 @ 224kbps – 14 mins); 30 Featurettes (1080p24, MPEG4 AVC, … Continue reading →

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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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