I will watch it yes, in cinema or dvd I'm not sure. The concept of the heroes reminds me of another movie I saw at cinema some years back. Mind-block. But it was not the known heroes. I think it was sort of like the Magnificent 7 concept, which by the way was a rip-off of a Japanese story about samurai made many years earlier (which I have on video tape.)
Marketing: many years ago my sister said buy the cd's of your fav albums now or they will probably become unavailable. So I went out and bought a live album which I previously had on vinyl. I had a recorded copy of this on a not so expensive cassette tape. Guess what, the cassette tape version sounded better than the CD. I was less than impressed. And to rub it in, the record store released a digitally remixed version to make it sound like the original LP and it also had bonus songs. grr. I downloaded mp3 versions of it but decided I wanted the better version. It was many years before I finally decided to buy the digitally improved version. Next they will come out with a 24-bit version I'm sure. I've had a similar issue with many bands albums.
A typical example I should not quote, but a french artist who keeps re-doing his original recording, mixed in 64 bit, then mixed in 96 bit, then a dual 24 bit cd release. sighs
Do the record companies really expect us to buy all these different versions when we had the original recording which was better than some of the earliest CD releases anyway.
On the BD front, I believe Europe and Australia BD players will play videos in the original film 24P. But USA has not yet caught up, obviously due to marketing reasons they are slowly getting there. Doing it slowly to try to get as much money in meantime and will only release the 24 frame-rate compatibility when it suits them as something to move up to.
Potentially BD offers much better picture and sound quality, especially if you have the supported playback equipment. However, I read an interesting article which reviewed BD releases of previously released movies and found the quality was no better than the DVD release. lol
What a rip off hey. People think they are getting better but are not. I will try to find that article to quote here. It was a UK review which is equivalent to Australia's Choice magazine,
www.choice.com.au Uh, discoverd the page is members only. Details in small print below:
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Originally Posted by Choice Blue-ray vs DVD movies
You'd be forgiven for thinking all BD movies are created equal. Unfortunately, this is not the case. A recent test by our UK sister organisation, Which?, found some significant differences in image quality. They looked at 17 movies, available in both DVD and BD formats, and found eight showed little or no difference in quality between formats. Five movies really stood out because the BD version was exceptional, and a further four were definitely improved in the BD version.
Industry sources refused to comment on the specific reasons for these differences, but it's no great leap to suggest that the movies have been converted from different sources, of differing quality. Some will be taken from the original film stock, while others will have been up-converted from standard definition sources made for TV. Consumers shouldn’t be made to pay more for little or no improvement in image quality, so we support Which?’s call for BD movies to clearly indicate on the label whether or not the movie is remastered from source materials.
The best-quality BD movies:
• Avatar
• Casino Royale
• From Russia with Love
• The Wizard of Oz
• Zulu
Little improvement to DVD:
• Matrix Reloaded
• Die Hard
• North by Northwest
• Gangs of New York
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
• The Untouchables
• The Graduate
• Ghostbusters |
Bit off-topic, was this link
Digital rights - who owns your download?