For those that peeked Jason Reitman's
Juno in theaters, you could probably tell that cutting edge visuals weren't priority number one. That being the case,
The Man Room found the 1080p / AVC-MPEG 4 encode to be "decent enough," but didn't hesitate to note that the film's low budget is still apparent in Blu-ray form. In essence, we wouldn't recommend picking this one up to wow your pals, but if you're a fan of the storyline, what
is presented seems to be satisfactory enough. As for audio, you'll get a DTS-HD Master Audio track as well as a welcome 5.1 Dolby Digital track; both formats fared well, but then again, there's not much more than dialog and the occasional indie track to tingle your ear drums, anyway. On to extras: Fox tossed in a
Digital Copy for those that care, and contrary to its habits, managed to stuff quite a few bonus features on the disc. Based on what we've read,
Juno seems like a solid buy if you're cool with middle-of-the-road visuals, and particularly so if you're an extras junkie.
posted Apr 13th 2008 4:14PM
Why is this article even on here? Am I the only person that finds it strange that Engadget would post a review of Juno? It just seems to me that there are better (in terms of HD) movies to rate.
blu-ray.com's reviews are pretty lousy IMO. They score movies far higher than they deserve. A turd in HD is still a turd. I'm not referring to this movie BTW. Maybe they should link to Rotten Tomatoes for the movie rating and just concern themselves with the Blu Ray specific features.
Apolgies, meant to reply to another post below
Juno's all about the story.
Even if you're watching it on a black and white, 5 inch TV from before the dinosaurs.
Tuesday needs to come faster...
Wasn't this reviewed on HighDefDigest like 1 and half weeks ago?
Yeah... and on Blu-ray.com even before that. Get with it!
Juno was the worst piece of crap movie i have ever seen in my life.
here's a good question... how the eff am I supposed to get the Digital Copy onto my Mac if the damn thing doesn't have a Blu-Ray player?