Jurassic Park Blu-Ray set

[CodeRedR51]

Anyone else picking this up? I'm going to splurge and get the Best Buy exclusive steelbook version on Tuesday.

Super stoked!

Steelbook:

 

[poolhaas]

Maybe I'll get this, my VHS of Jurassic Park is starting to wear out

 

[CodeRedR51]

Nobody else? I pre-ordered mine on Friday night, will be picking it up tomorrow.

 

[Sprite]

Yep indeed. I have mine upstairs. I've already got my digital copies transferred over to my Mac.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Europe got it early?

 

[Sprite]

Came out today, but I had mine on pre-order and they posted it out so you get it for release but they mostly arrive by the weekend so you get the a couple of days early.

Just to show I have this baby.

 

[a6m5]

One of the select few films that I'd like to upgrade the DVDs to Blu-rays. I'll be getting it eventually.

Edit: Wow, one review on Best Buy, and this customer is not happy with the transfer....

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Jurassi...uId=3039146&id=2239450#tabbed-customerreviews

 

[CodeRedR51]

I haven't even watched mine yet. But, according to this the video quality is just fine.

"There is some very minor shimmer evident in some of the scenes involving crane shots over the dense foliage on Isla Soma and Jurassic Park itself, but otherwise these are sharp, well defined Blu- rays that offer a considerable upgrade in video quality from the DVDs."

 

[Sprite]

Yep High-Def Digest gave them an ok score too, allot of movies that have tons of digital effects and allot of blue screen can look bad when transferred to HD. I've yet to watch mine but I never owned them on DVD so it was a logical step for me.

 

[a6m5]

I just checked the Best Buy.com again, and the second reviewer's very happy with it, except the third disc wouldn't play. I had similar problem with I think one of the Stargate Universe Blu-ray? I'm still gonna get it, but weird.

 

[CodeRedR51]

First guy could have bought a bad copy or something. Happens some times.

 

[a6m5]

I think the only bad experience was the technical one with the Stargate Universe, and that was a Netflix rental. Haven't encountered really bad transfers yet, but then again, I'm only on a 720p.

 

[Sprite]

Well I have yet to watch any of the films in full, but I have watched up to the part of the T-Rex escapes, so far it's a mixed bag. Daylight shots can be fuzzy especially wide shots, but closeups reveal allot of detail especially in skin and hair.

Where the first film seems to shine is night shots, tons of contrast that makes the image pop, detail is fantastic, and the T-Rex looks great and has stood up well. Shadow detail can get lost in some parts but overall not bad so far.

I'm sure the other films been more recent might fair a little better but that's not always the case. I will leave some more impressions, only issue Ive got tons to watch.

 

[PAPPACLART]

Jurrasic Park was 1 of the first movies I watched on a high end home cinema set up when I was a kid. It was amazing. I may have to buy it myself to give it the full treatment on my set up.

 

[a6m5]

Can films like these that were not shot in 3D ever be released in 3D? I was looking at a 3D TV today, so I was wondering.

 

[Grayfox]

will this be in true 1080i/p or will it just be upscaled to it as i don't know if this was filmed in HD.

 

[Sprite]

Can films like these that were not shot in 3D ever be released in 3D? I was looking at a 3D TV today, so I was wondering.

There is nothing stopping them, but to be honest the work involved may not warrant the returns in my opinion.

will this be in true 1080i/p or will it just be upscaled to it as i don't know if this was filmed in HD.

As far as I'm aware, the studio used an old scan and didn't go back to the original source, I think the old CGI was done at probably a low resolution, so if they re-scanned the negative at say 5k like they did with blade runner then the CGI would need to be re-created.

The image has some stunning shots but some are below par, take the shots when the group first see the dinasours herding for the first time, there is a distance shot of them and the image is blurry as heck. Not good at all

 

[a6m5]

There is nothing stopping them, but to be honest the work involved may not warrant the returns in my opinion.



As far as I'm aware, the studio used an old scan and didn't go back to the original source, I think the old CGI was done at probably a low resolution, so if they re-scanned the negative at say 5k like they did with blade runner then the CGI would need to be re-created.

The image has some stunning shots but some are below par, take the shots when the group first see the dinasours herding for the first time, there is a distance shot of them and the image is blurry as heck. Not good at all

Both great info. Thanks! 👍 I wish Universal would touch up on the CG after hearing this. If it was up to me, I'm sure it's cost prohibitive, but I'd have the 3D conversion done on all three.