Home audio & video forum: The Blu Ray Ideal: Too Real?

All most all new bluray release in the past 2 years the director has been involved in the look of the BD. Ironman is one of the best looking blurays out there, so I have no idea what your talking about on that.

Bad calibration can make a $5k tv look like junk. You don't need a ISF calibration, most tv's have the settings needed to look great as long as one knows what their doing.

B&M stores suck and it not a place to judge a tv or bluray. Most of the tv's are set to 'Vivid mode' and it will make anything cr@py. Nothing in say BB will look anything close to what you get in a theater.. It can not, the lighting is crazy, Engadget.com today has a article about the lighting in B&M stores and judging tv's PQ, sum it up you can not.

What sized tv do you have, model number and how far do you sit???????

I think ISF calibration is a must on PJ' and most 58"+ sized TV's should be ISF calibrated. Yes more options is always better but when on most brand models you can get 90%+ to what a ISF calibration can get, one has to ask it the $400 worth the extra 10% or so. Remember most people site too far for there sized tv and with that you loss some aspects of PQ of a TV.

Few people spend $4k on a tv.
I did NOT say ALL.. I said MOST BRAND NAMES will look [v]very nice with 'some' tweeking with the menu settings and if one knows what there doing they can get 'close' to ISF but not a true ISF calibration. Some brands and models you can get closer then others, there are some settings that can be 'fixed' via the service menu. I am not talking last year models or the years before that... I am talking this years models. And I am talking tv's not PJ's here.

The 80u can not be compaired to the V10. The V10 replaces the 850u/800u of last year.

I believe that most major blockbuster action movies these days are edited/mixed/shot to be viewed in high resolution because most of them have IMAX theatre releases as well as regular theatre releases. Personally, I don't really care about the upgrade in resolution over DVD as much as I care about the upgrade in audio. The audio from Blu-ray vs. DVD is night and day with me. And it is really really hard for me to watch an action movie on DVD now because every explosion, gun shot, etc. just seems so shallow compared to how action movies sound on Blu-ray (TrueHD/DTS-MA tracks)

The opening of Harry Potter was digitally remastered to IMAX using proprietary IMAX technology to achieve the 3D (MAX DMR). Apollo 13 was the fist movie to use this technology. Movies that originate in IMAX are shot using a special IMAX 70mm camera. Watching an IMAX-shot movie on a huge IMAX screen makes one want to fall out of their chairs, like almost being in the film.

Regarding the over detailed image of Blu-Ray, first you must realize that 99% of the displays setup in stores have no tweaking. They are pre-set to Vivid mode, Contrast and Brightness are set at 100, and other settings are just out of whack. I can see how a BR movie on a store display would look horrible. In Costco last week, they have Samsung and Panasonic sets running BR discs, and god they looked horrible. Color was way over-saturated and they were so brigt, my fillings almost popped out of my mouth. I agree that using a setup disc won't replace an ISF calibration, but it sure makes a TV look better. I have both a 55" and a 46" 1080p/24 TV, both connected to BR players, and to me the image is stunning. Yes, very detailed, but I feel like I'm right in the movie. I've been to movies where the image is very blurry when there is sideways movement. I am very happy with Blu-Ray. It's what TV should have been, could have been, and today, it is.