Lyris Lite :: Another crappy-looking HD DVD: Brotherhood of the Wolf (French import)

Whatever happened to the concept of quality control on the HD formats? Studio Canal's BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF arrived today from France and I am sad to report that it looks cack. The usual filtering is present meaning that fine textures such as bricks and gravel appear unrealistic and clumpy, and there's edge glows present around high contrast areas.

I appreciate that getting titles out is good for the format, but can't the studios release some movies that they actually have good masters for? It doesn't matter if a film has no (or almost no) visible compression artefacts if the whole point of the "High Definition" transfer -the DEFINITION that is HIGH - is disappointing.

Hopefully, the next HD title I get - Pirates of the Caribbean on Blu-ray Disc - will wow me. I know what great HD looks like, and a lot of the recent efforts aren't it. Seriously, I'm pissed off. These formats, which were supposed to be all about fantastic quality and treatment, have barely been out for a fricking year and it's already descended into this.

Where do you buy your HD DVD's from, Lyris?

They seem very expensive on UK sites.

My brother actually buys most of 'em. www.dvdpacific.com are a great store.

Occasionally we get review samples sent.

Someone recently bought me the regular dvd of this film. I was thinking about the HD version, but now I'll just stick with the dvd.

Seems like HD-DVD/Blue Ray is not being taken seriously by studios, when it comes to quality.

It's a shame. You'd expect companies to put a lot of time, money, and commitment into making discs that impress people.

When people read your negative reviews and others, they'll probably feel happy to stick with dvd. There defnitely isn't a positive "Must Have" vibe being generated around HD films.

Lyris, seriously do not buy Universal's The 40 Year Old Virgin, terrible, terrible edge enhancement. The worst I've ever seen on an HD presentation. Honestly.

Here's an absolutely ridiculous review of the HD DVD:

http://www.highdefdiscnews.com/?p=46

Mr. "Blind-as-a-bat" Sluss posted this review over at AVS, I (politely) called him on it there, and via a PM I told to to "shut up" by him.

The Video God help us all if we have idiots like Justin actually getting their reviews posted on sites.

I wasn't planning on it anyway, but thanks for the warning. Although I haven't seen the transfer, reviewers coming up with insane scores is nothing new.

There seems to be a lot of reviewers out there who think that owning expensive and well-specified equipment qualifies them to analyse video. If you try and challenge some people they'll criticise your hardware and claim that your display device is causing the transfer to look bad (AVS Forum seems to be full of people like this).

Many people like this have no experience of working with digital video processing at all.

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