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| Registered: March 20, 2007 | | Posts: 94 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this but it didn't seem to fit anywhere else. My question is that I was going to get The Departed on Blu-Ray during this Black Friday (weekend) sale as you can get it for under $10 at places but then saw there is a "new" release of it planned for 2/2/2010. I was wondering is this the same disc, just in a new package or ???
Anybody know?
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Big:
I can't help you, I haven't hear of any new release, though I will keep my ear to the ground for yo. I just checked a couple of my sources and found zip. BUt, that said it wouldn't surprise me...blow the old stock out the door .
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
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| Registered: March 20, 2007 | | Posts: 94 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thanks Skip, I know it is not uncommon for them to re-package the same disc in a new cover and then it is a "new release" If that is the case here I'll grab the one that is on sale now. |
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| Registered: June 21, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,621 |
| | Posted: | | | | I hate when this happens and specs can't be found because: If a better version is coming, I want that one. But if it's just a new cover, then I want the original. Looking at this on amazon, it looks like those "award series" of dvds, which were all the same old discs with either a new slip-cover or new cover. The spces say the new one is 1.77, not 2.40 which is probably just a misprint, but could be the beginning of HD-FS mania. If BD's start coming cropped like my HD cable channels I'm going to quit watching movies!  Seeing how the BD had all the content from the 2-disc and I'm sure Marty is working on something else, I'd bet this is the same disc as the current. It will come out at a cheaper price point with a new cover, and nothing else will change. Buy the current now just in case the coming one is 1.77.  |
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| Registered: March 10, 2009 | | Posts: 2,248 |
| | Posted: | | | | Unless you like special features and have a sound system i would The transfer is not going to get much better but the audio was PCM so that will probably get upgraded to DDTHD track. |
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| Registered: September 18, 2008 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,650 |
| | Posted: | | | | Ummm... since when is Dolby TrueHD better than PCM?
PCM is an exact replication of a studio master without compression but unfortunately uses a lot of disc space. Dolby TrueHD is compressed but once decoded is identical to the studio master. So yeah, the result is the exact same. |
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| Registered: June 15, 2008 | | Posts: 220 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting samuelrichardscott: Quote:
Ummm... since when is Dolby TrueHD better than PCM?
PCM is an exact replication of a studio master without compression but unfortunately uses a lot of disc space. Dolby TrueHD is compressed but once decoded is identical to the studio master. So yeah, the result is the exact same. thats true...pcm (uncompressed) and truehd (lossless) is pretty much like .wav and flac (or other lossless codecs) so they should sound the same |
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| Registered: March 10, 2009 | | Posts: 2,248 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting samuelrichardscott: Quote:
Ummm... since when is Dolby TrueHD better than PCM?
PCM is an exact replication of a studio master without compression but unfortunately uses a lot of disc space. Dolby TrueHD is compressed but once decoded is identical to the studio master. So yeah, the result is the exact same. Yeah i know but Warner have done it with 300 on the complete experience sacrificing the PCM for DDTHD http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/300-Blu-ray/451/ http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/300-The-Complete-Experience-Blu-ray/1207/ |
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| Registered: September 18, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,650 |
| | Posted: | | | | But it's not an upgrade like you said. It's likely done for more space although less people will be able to utilise it as PCM is a standard for BR players and not all BR players can play TrueHD. |
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| Registered: March 20, 2007 | | Posts: 94 |
| | Posted: | | | | Well if it does have TrueHD that wont matter to me (yet) as my receiver doesn't support that. Getting a new Onkyo to replace my current one is on the "to-do" list as well but that wont be for awhile. I have the steelbook version of The Departed now so maybe just hold on to that one, unless the current BD one is much better... |
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| Registered: March 10, 2009 | | Posts: 2,248 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting samuelrichardscott: Quote:
But it's not an upgrade like you said. It's likely done for more space although less people will be able to utilise it as PCM is a standard for BR players and not all BR players can play TrueHD. I was meaning upgrade from the point of view it takes up less disc space which means better video encoding. I should have said that and now i have so all good. |
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| Registered: September 18, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,650 |
| | Posted: | | | | Although it's not better encoding, just different  |
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| Registered: December 10, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,004 |
| | Posted: | | | | TrueHD is often at a higher bitrate thanks to taking up less space, though. |
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