Jetrell Fo said:
FremenDar007 said:
Which program should I use to watch my HD DVDs? I have ArcSoft Total Media Theater 6 installed. I had to junk my old XBOX 360 HD DVD add-on player since my front USB ports bricked it.
Of course I'm interested in converting the video to Blu-ray with the DTS-HD MA or whichever tracks.
I have:
The Adventures of Robin Hood; Backdraft; Batman Begins; Black Rain; BLADE RUNNER: 5-Disc; The Bourne Identity; The Bourne Supremacy; The Bourne Ultimatum; Brotherhood of the Wolf (UK); Bullitt; Carlito's Way; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; DragonHeart; DUNE; FACE/OFF; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Field of Freams; The Frighteners; THE GAME; The Italian Job; Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior; Mission: Impossible; Mission: Impossible 2; Mission: Impossible III: 2-Disc; SERENITY; Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow; Sleepy Hollow; Sneakers; The Sting; The Thing; TRANSFORMERS; The Untouchables; V for Vendetta.
The Blu-ray's I upgraded to, including the titles I used to own on HD DVD (There are many which I've forgotten if I used to own them on DVD or HD DVD):
2001: A Space Odyssey; 12 Monkeys; The Bourne Trilogy; Carlito's Way; CASINO; The Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black; DUNE; THE GAME (Criterion); KING KONG (2005); Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (Original and Remastered); Mission: Impossible (USA & Norway); Mission: Impossible 2 (USA & Norway); Mission: Impossible III: 2-Disc (USA & Norway); SERENITY; Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow; The Sting; The Thing (UK); TRANSFORMERS...
How about THE THING HD DVD unmettled video with the lossless audio track from the Blu-ray on a BD25? Same for Apollo 13 and dozens of others. No need for menus. All that's needed is to take the HD DVD video, rejigg it to Blu-ray format, grab the lossless audio, and then retime it to the video. Convert to Blu-ray format folders and then as an ISO.
So which Blu-rays are better than the HD DVD for better film grain reproduction including The Thing, Appolo 13, DragonHeart, etc.? Should also count if the Blu-ray has differing versions of a title via seamless branching. i.e. American Gangster, Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick; King Kong; (Dunno what else).
EDIT: TROY: Theatrical Cut is only on HD DVD so there's a preservation opportunity there.
2001: A Space Odyssey Blu-ray disc has a LPCM track boasting 6.9 MB/ps compared to the HD DVDs Dolby TrueHD track. So Uncompressed audio > Lossless audio.
King Kong is only theatrical on HD-DVD. I have Apollo 13 on HD-DVD and it looks freeking awesome.
You might want to try using ClownBD. It might make some of your work easier? I used it for the first time yesterday to take Bluray video of Event Horizon so that I could mux our DTS Theatrical audio to it ..... it was quite awesome to hear it that way.
Do I need to use anything so the HD DVD add-on player will be recognized by AnyDVD HD? I know about King Kong since it was a freebie with the original HD DVD add-on I bought. Since upgraded it to Blu-ray a couple years ago.
As per mentioned, would be nice to use the DNR/EE Blu-ray versions of titles and substitute the video from the HD DVD but still use the lossless audio from the Blu-ray. All would have to do is synch them. Any recommended program for Windows x64 to extract Uncompressed and Lossless audio from Blu-rays?
^Should be used for The Sting; DragonHeart; Apollo 13; The Thing; The Mummy; The Mummy Returns; what other titles? The Big Lebowski is fine on Blu-ray from Italy, Army of Darkness from Germany; and other imports.
Should we have a Project where we use the video, untempered but reformatted for Blu, from HD DVD but the lossless audio from the Blu-ray? HD DVD to Blu-ray on BD25s. What about the menus, extras and subtitles being converted?