Get me up to speed

[RogerIrrelevant]

When DVD players first came out, I hastily chipped mine and bought many region 1 discs for extra content and superior sound- (Saving private Ryan USA DTS anyone?)

I will soon be upgrading and getting an amp which decodes HD dolby and DTS for blurays via a PS3. There are a myriad of settings on the PS3- (that I think is an excellent all round media player incidentally)I have learned so far that I would be better to set PS3 to bitstream. Any other settings advice?

Also, does anyone recall the first time they heard an HD soundtrack from Bluray compared to a standard DTS?DD DVD. Is it significantly improved? Just to give me something to look forward to really.

 

[Glacialpath]

The UK and Europe got DTS on Saving Private Ryan too but not on the initial release. The picture on the NTSC versions of course had less video information than PAL but I guess you know that and it didn't bother you so ignor me. However yes better bonus material was a good reason for getting the US release.

That still occours on BD regarding the bonus material. Before you hack your PS3 though you could just get a multi reagon BD player. Also all Warner Brother titles are region free. So if you want the best version of any BD regards audio and bonus check blu-ray.com. I got the Goonies box set from the US that is nat available in the UK except as import I also got the box set of Watchmen and Friday The 13th complete collection for the same reason.

Most Disney or Buena Vist titles are all region unless stated as region A locked. You are aware of the new region coding for BD? A is the US and Asia, B is UK and Europe and C is Russia and some other countries.

Something else if you didn't know. 1080i and 1080p. Of course 1080p is best but for things like BBC TV programs that may have been filmed in 720 (converted to 1080i for BD) or 1080i it's best to stick with a 1080i version. The US Planet Earth box set is 1080p but this can cause some picture issues like jumpy panning shots.

No for the answer you wanted lol. I don't have a PS3 but I used to use them at work all the time and making sure the settings were correct was part of my job.

In Display settings you want the Super white (I think that's what its called) set to FULL

Dynamic Contrast should be OFF (can't remember if that is in the Video or Display menu)

It's up to you if you want DVD upscaling on ot off. Remeber all DVDs a 480i (NTSC) or 567i (PAL) meaning interlaced so upscaling to 1080 60i or 1080 50i is best.

Deep colour I used to set to OFF as I can't remember it making any difference.

The 24p playback option has an AUTO setting right? I would leave it on that.

Ideally you want the player to reproduce whats on the disc and not try to make improvements to it except the DVD upscaling but even this can introduce video errors depending on how good the upscaler is and who well the disc has been authored.

I'm sure there are some other settings so if no one else replys to you, list the settings from Display and Video for me with their options and I'll let you know what they should be.

I hope that helps.

 

[RogerIrrelevant]

The UK and Europe got DTS on Saving Private Ryan too but not on the initial release. The picture on the NTSC versions of course had less video information than PAL but I guess you know that and it didn't bother you so ignor me. However yes better bonus material was a good reason for getting the US release.

That still occours on BD regarding the bonus material. Before you hack your PS3 though you could just get a multi reagon BD player. Also all Warner Brother titles are region free. So if you want the best version of any BD regards audio and bonus check blu-ray.com. I got the Goonies box set from the US that is nat available in the UK except as import I also got the box set of Watchmen and Friday The 13th complete collection for the same reason.

Most Disney or Buena Vist titles are all region unless stated as region A locked. You are aware of the new region coding for BD? A is the US and Asia, B is UK and Europe and C is Russia and some other countries.

Something else if you didn't know. 1080i and 1080p. Of course 1080p is best but for things like BBC TV programs that may have been filmed in 720 (converted to 1080i for BD) or 1080i it's best to stick with a 1080i version. The US Planet Earth box set is 1080p but this can cause some picture issues like jumpy panning shots.

No for the answer you wanted lol. I don't have a PS3 but I used to use them at work all the time and making sure the settings were correct was part of my job.

In Display settings you want the Super white (I think that's what its called) set to FULL

Dynamic Contrast should be OFF (can't remember if that is in the Video or Display menu)

It's up to you if you want DVD upscaling on ot off. Remeber all DVDs a 480i (NTSC) or 567i (PAL) meaning interlaced so upscaling to 1080 60i or 1080 50i is best.

Deep colour I used to set to OFF as I can't remember it making any difference.

The 24p playback option has an AUTO setting right? I would leave it on that.

Ideally you want the player to reproduce whats on the disc and not try to make improvements to it except the DVD upscaling but even this can introduce video errors depending on how good the upscaler is and who well the disc has been authored.

I'm sure there are some other settings so if no one else replys to you, list the settings from Display and Video for me with their options and I'll let you know what they should be.

I hope that helps.

It does indeed help, Thank you so very much glacialpath, most interesting. Yes, I knew about the PAL version being less in the way of video reslution, but the amount of space they saved for the DTS was substantial!

I did not know that BD still had the same trends re other reigions having more stuff. Nor that Regions were listed as A and B etc. The unlocked Warner BD's is a tasty tip also. I always enjoyed the way the Warner DVD's had autoplay. My BD of The Lost Boys is also autoplay and I'm hoping that he trend continues with all BD's.

Thanks again mate.

 

[Glacialpath]

Ah glad I didn't confuddle you like I do seem to with other people.

Unfortunately with NTSC being a lower resolution thus taking up less space on the DVD it doesn't make any difference in regard them putting a DTS stream instead of or as well as a DD stream. I used to think that way till I worked at my last job in a DVD and BD authoring house.

PAL is the higher res format. 576i at 25 frames per second and NTSC 480i 30 fps

DVDs in the NTSC format seem longer than the PAL equivalent because of the frame rate. I still get confused why even though it's 5 more frames per second and the length of a second is changing that the NTSC version ends up longer.

I used to think using a smaller video file meant they wouldn't have to compress the audio file as much and vice versa but the way they encode a video or audio file for DVD and BD is the same amount of compression each time. So though the video file for NTSC might be smaller the audio won't be compressed any less.

I didn't know that HD video for BD still gets compressed. On the HD audio is 100% uncompressed as even a 7.1 audio stream is a lot smaller file than an 90min HD video file. The video compression works pretty well as I have been lucky enough to see some titles in their uncompressed video format straight from the tapes the are delivered on then again after compression.

Now though when they make a DVD and a BD of any title they used the same video file for both, meaning the DVD version gets really compressed as apposed to the one for the BD that is not quite so compressed.

Anyway I'm sure you don't want me spouting all this rubbish. so I'll stop now lol.

Did you take a look at blu-ray.com. I'm on there quite a lot under the same name Glacialpath and if you are thinking of buying a BD and want to know which one is the best version, give me a shout and I'll give you a hand finding the best one.

Just as a heads up and I wish I'd known this before I bought it only to take it back. The UK version of Burried has a severely cropped picture. The original aspect ratio is 2:35.1 (very wide) but the UK BD has been cropped to 1:78.1 (16x9 TV shape) so the sides have been chopped off. I have found the is a Dutch version that has the full 2:35.1 picture, same for the US version too.

Anyway have fun finding all the cool BDs.