This release had serious problems on HD-DVD. You could see where someone used the "burn" tool to lighten up the characters against dark backgrounds in many scenes. HD didn't do this release many favors.
This article says it uses the VC-1 codec which could mean WB will just shove the existing encode onto Blu Ray and be done with it. If so that would be disappointing seeing as they are no longer constrained to 30Gb any more.
This release looked and sounded excellent on HD DVD - using a higher bitrate encode wouldn't necessarily yield better results.
And since Warner has constantly shown it will take the laziest path (porting 640 kb DD tracks from BD over into HD DVD's DD+ track, porting HD DVD's encodes into BD), this doesn't surprise me.
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This release had serious problems on HD-DVD. You could see where someone used the "burn" tool to lighten up the characters against dark backgrounds in many scenes. HD didn't do this release many favors.
This article says it uses the VC-1 codec which could mean WB will just shove the existing encode onto Blu Ray and be done with it. If so that would be disappointing seeing as they are no longer constrained to 30Gb any more.
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=1159
This release looked and sounded excellent on HD DVD - using a higher bitrate encode wouldn't necessarily yield better results.
And since Warner has constantly shown it will take the laziest path (porting 640 kb DD tracks from BD over into HD DVD's DD+ track, porting HD DVD's encodes into BD), this doesn't surprise me.
I have it on HD DVD and thought it looked pretty damn good.