Just starting it, and slowly. I've asked my wife for Casino Royale on BD for Christmas, but I am worried my 10 & under boys will find it & want to watch it since they know about 007 movies. NOT kiddie appropriate, so that's one to store out in my office.
Speaking of HD movies, though, I rented The Maltese Falcon last night via the Apple TV. (takes sip of Apple Kool-Aid) Wow, that looks good in high definition!
Maybe I'll look into getting some good old B&W movies on BD too.
I was hoping Wall-E would be a great BD movie because it's contemporary, computer-generated, and could look fabulous in 1080p. When we rented it last week in BD I thought the graphics looked over softened and aside from the look I didn't think the story was very compelling. Oh well. In this category I'll be getting Cars.
Maybe it's that my TV is *ONLY* 42" but I'm having a hard time noticing better definition in the BD than in upscaled DVD. The TV's a good LCD with true 1080p and 120-Hz refresh, though. Leaves me wondering whether it's the TV size or a heavy dose of lossy compression and DRM used in the BD that might be bringing down the way movies look. Well, I should stop there because I'm not trying to change the course of the thread. I just only wanted to mention why I'm slow to dive into a library of BD movies.
Oh Hoople -- Speed Racer! I never even bothered to watch Speed Racer as a kid, but I sure liked the movie. I especially liked the cinematic effects they chose to use, the visual timeline swiping with multiple simultaneous dialogs, and that they'd do campy things like mock/mimic the way the animation was. (Like when Speed's in trouble on the mountain and there are those dumb shots of Trixie & Sparky going "OH!" ... brilliant!)
