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| Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2014 6:51 pm Post subject: Guardians of the Galaxy |
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Guardians of the Galaxy
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| Quote: | 'Guardians of the Galaxy' is an absolute blast of a movie that blends space opera action with 1970s-1980s Americana pop culture, making the whole thing feel fresh and proving, once again, Marvel is not yet done defining the Super Hero Genre. As a Blu-ray, 'Guardians' boasts a reference quality video presentation, a fantastic 7.1 surround experience, and a nice collection of bonus materials. If you don't care about 3D, this is the edition for you. Highly recommended.
The Video: Sizing Up the Picture
'Guardians of the Galaxy' travels across the galaxy with a highly detailed, gorgeous AVC MPEG-4 encode framed in the film's original theatrical 2.39:1 aspect ratio.
Much like its 3D (theatrical) presentation, 'Guardians' is a high definition Blu-ray stunner. This film boats a wide color palette, with lots of bright neon colors on everything from environments to starscapes to crazy alien skin tones. All of these are reproduced wonderfully. The film also mixes a number of brightly lit exterior sequences with tons of shadowy space and interior worlds, rendering a visually engaging word that is never monotonous. Black levels are spot on too, but never crush details. Special Effects too are highly detailed, with fully CGI characters Groot and Rocket coming to life in an almost photo realistic way. Finally, there are no signs of damage or encoding flaws.
'Guardians of the Galaxy' on Blu-ray is definitely the perfect disc for 2014 to demo a new display (or test out an old one).
The Audio: Rating the Sound
Despite debuting theatrically with an awesome Dolby Atmos mix, Marvel and Disney have elected to encode this Blu-ray in 7.1 DTS-HD MA.
That being said, 'Guardians' sounds fantastic on Blu-ray, boasting an engaging, reference quality surround experience. Dialog is wonderfully clear, even in chaotic action sequences. Sound effects panning is aggressive, with laser blasts and space ships enveloping the home cinema environment. LFE is deep and punching, accentuating thrusters and thudding explosions. Finally, classic rock music fans are going to rejoice at how great and expansive all these tunes sound, wrapping out around the listeners. Unless you're an audiophile with a high resolution audio collection, you probably haven't heard these songs sound this good.
Overall, 'Guardians of the Galaxy' is a fantastic Blu-ray audio experience. |
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WTF ? So I am saving up to install Atmos and the studios are NOT releasing it on the Blu ray ? When it was in the theatre with atmos ! Bull !
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List of Dolby Atmos Titles on Blu-ray Disc:
•Transformers: Age of Extinction (2D)
•Transformers: Age of Extinction (3D)
•Step Up All In
•The Expendables 3
•Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2D) - December 16, 2014
•Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (3D) - December 16, 2014
•Gravity Diamond Luxe Edition - February 15, 2015
7 that's it ? In reality its 5.
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| Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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Dolby Atmos is brand new for home use. Give it time.
It was only introduced in theaters in 2012, only had ~300 theaters *worldwide* in 2013, and Dolby only announced it for home use at the end of June 2014 so getting it onto Blu-ray is a new thing. It's not bull, it's just logic. When it was available for theatrical use (and whether it was used theatrically) has nothing to do with home use.
Many of the movies that are coming out on Blu-ray now have been in the works long before then, and until very recently, Blu-ray authors did not have a way to add Atmos to Blu-ray.
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I was thinking of trying to be ready to do Atmos in 6 months. Looks like there aint no rush, 2 years seems to be a reasonable time frame now. Thanks.
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