mrtheshaggy
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Sadly, I can't remember if I already own the Blu-Ray set of this or if I only have the DVDs...
I'll probably pick this up, does it include that first two hour episode? I think they never aired that one but Science was showing it during the marathon...
well...Just bought this, abe Lincoln vampire hunter 3d, and titanic 3d for 37$ with the sale and the facebook 5$ off promo they currently got running....Seems like a good haul...I hope firefly is good...I bought serenity on hddvd years ago and still have not watched it...
On the Blu-ray discs
Firefly has a picture that's a little softer than most Blu-ray discs (especially in the effects shots), but it is an improvement over the DVDs (even in an upconverting DVD player or Blu-ray player), and the punchy sound (DTS HD 5.1 compared to the DVDs' 2.0 surround) is a definite upgrade.
Anyone willing to ship this up to Canada for a die hard Firefly fan?
How is the BR quality on this?
Looks like its about Blue Ray quality to me...
Not a videophile, apparently.
Nope... Just someone who expects the quality of a 10 year old show on blue ray to reflect that it is a 10 year old show..
I've seen 30 year old movies that look better than the shit that's being produced today.
I've seen 30 year old movies that look better than the shit that's being produced today.
In comparing the Blu-ray version to "Firefly" on DVD, this set offers a clear upgrade over the blurred and displeasing standard definition image. Sharpness, detail and color reproduction are vastly surperior while helping to preserve the film-like look that the show aspired to. "Firefly" on Blu-ray is clearly the best that this show will ever look. Recommended.
note for anyone that doesn't know already:
The CGI in this show was originally mastered in SD. The CGI was not re-mastered in HD for this. There is a bit of a bitrate upgrade for the CGI scenes, but no resolution upgrade. Its likely the raw files from which an HD master could be made don't even exist anymore. It was made cheap.
makemkv is not free from what I could find, well, free for 30 days in a trial. And it sounds like ripping it to hard drive really takes alot of space too, so its not like I could put alot of blue rays on my HDD for long term.
And is $13 for blu-ray a pretty special price? Or could I wait to buy for a latter date and still get a price around that or better?