Review of the Serenity HD-DVD

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UPDATED: Sunday, April 23, 2006 22:57
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TALYNDERRE

Thursday, April 20, 2006 11:37 PM

Or a big damn computer screen! Gotta love HD computer monitors.

But wow... 65"? *worships your TV"

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AERIN

Friday, April 21, 2006 2:48 AM

Ooh! I was just about to ask if HD DVDs would work ok on computers. I'm a bit HD illiterate and not planning on buying a new player any time soon. I have the resolution turned all the way up on my laptop screen, so the regular movie trailers are tiny. I got terribly excited when they started to post HD trailers on the Apple website. The HD Serenity trailer looks completely awesome on my computer! I would love to get an HD DVD just to play on my laptop. Just imagine the screen captures...

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TEINEN

Friday, April 21, 2006 6:15 PM

Nerdninja
.............I can be persuaded to watch Serenity and show off my 65" HDTV anytime.
.............

i was just kiddin but, wow you rule. Im from CT.lol.

STORYMARK

Friday, April 21, 2006 7:47 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Aerin:
Ooh! I was just about to ask if HD DVDs would work ok on computers. I'm a bit HD illiterate and not planning on buying a new player any time soon. I have the resolution turned all the way up on my laptop screen, so the regular movie trailers are tiny. I got terribly excited when they started to post HD trailers on the Apple website. The HD Serenity trailer looks completely awesome on my computer! I would love to get an HD DVD just to play on my laptop. Just imagine the screen captures...

Nope.

While an HD monitor would be capable of displaying the HD image, there are no PC disk drives on the market that can read an HD-DVD disk, yet. Sorry.

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AERIN

Saturday, April 22, 2006 1:03 AM

Bummer, but thanks for the info.

AGATSU

Saturday, April 22, 2006 1:26 AM

Since I can't play the DVD, anyways, but gots to have it, I'm gonna wait for Serenity Day to order it. Maybe by then it will be available on amazon.de or amazon.co.uk.
Are HD-DVDs region encoded, too?

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SASSALICIOUS

Saturday, April 22, 2006 2:14 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Nerdninja:
I just wish there were more movies available. Not that $525 to watch Serenity in HD is too much.

You are officially my hero because you are as compulsive as I am. I haven't bought the HD player yet, but once I went and bought 6 seasons of the X-Files at once because I HAD TO HAVE THEM NOW!

But now I've been mildly inspired to actually look at my budget and look into flying to London or Cali for cons.

DONCOAT

Saturday, April 22, 2006 3:15 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Agatsu:
Since I can't play the DVD, anyways, but gots to have it, I'm gonna wait for Serenity Day to order it. Maybe by then it will be available on amazon.de or amazon.co.uk.
Are HD-DVDs region encoded, too?

As I understand it, HD-DVDs are not regionized.

I have my Serenity HD-DVD. Some observations about the disc and packaging (since I don't have any way to actually *play* it):

The DVD itself looks a lot like a standard DVD. Maybe slightly grayer and less shiny on the playing surface, but it shows no dazzling optical effects to the naked eye.

The cover is as we've seen. I'm in the "hate it" category. There is so much better fan-created cover art around that it's not funny.

Smaller case than a standard DVD, but bigger than a CD case. Nifty translucent red color. No insert except a generic HD-DVD ad brochure.

Totally annoying packaging. The thing has anti-theft tape on all three edges of the case! Only the hinge side doesn't -- how did they overlook that obvious opportunity to aggravate us further? And all this was under the usual clear shrink wrap.

I'd pay a buck extra for discs that didn't have that gorram tape on the edges. I can't imagine it's that much of a deterrent anyway. All a thief would have to do is make three quick cuts with a razor blade and it's open. So who's it there to deter? All it does is irritate the paying customers.

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THATDUDE90210

Sunday, April 23, 2006 2:40 AM

Someone posted a picture from the HD-DVD version of Serenity. The pic was taken with a digital camera aimed at his tv, I think. Anyway, it's an amazing picture of River.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=7528820&&#post7528820

MIMA

Sunday, April 23, 2006 3:14 AM

OMG- you can see her pores! and the tiny fuzz hairs on her nose! and a little bit of acne on her forehead! and every fold and crease of her lips! and maybe this tech is a little scary!!!

would summer *like* this shot I wonder?

seriously tho- it's about the eyes in that shot and her eye looks beautiful.

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