Assuming the quality is identical between Blu-ray and HD DVD, I'd choose (and do choose, 'cos I demo my HD DVD set up regularly):
- Planet Earth - particularly the opening scene of the first episode. - 2001. Absolutely unbelievable, made for HD in many ways. - Blade Runner. I was given the Bourne Ultimatum as my first HD DVD, which honestly isn't a great demonstration of HD (too much movement.) My second HD DVD set, ordered a couple of days later was BR. Everyone's jaw dropped when they saw it opening. The Dolby TrueHD sound, even converted to DTS, is also jaw-dropping.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Assuming the quality is identical between Blu-ray and HD DVD, I'd choose (and do choose, 'cos I demo my HD DVD set up regularly):
- Planet Earth - particularly the opening scene of the first episode.
- 2001. Absolutely unbelievable, made for HD in many ways.
- Blade Runner. I was given the Bourne Ultimatum as my first HD DVD, which honestly isn't a great demonstration of HD (too much movement.) My second HD DVD set, ordered a couple of days later was BR. Everyone's jaw dropped when they saw it opening. The Dolby TrueHD sound, even converted to DTS, is also jaw-dropping.
Those three wow everyone I show them to.