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Watched my first HDX film, here's my short take

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    Watched my first HDX film, here's my short take

    Watched Spy Game tonight. Overall, I thought that there were some significant issues in the picture quality, however I am not ready to place any blame on Vudu, there are a lot of factors here. I will need to look at a bunch of other HDX titles to compare.

    First thoughts, the film had a lot of black crush, there was almost no shadow detail. Skin, especially faces, seemed to lack detail and sometimes appeared glossy.

    Positives though are the film grain, it showed through.

    My first best are that my Fujitsu needs to be ISF calibrated against the Vudu. However as far as I know Vudu doesn't offer a test pattern. This is a big thing that has to be offered. If you're going for near BR quality, you need to be able to ISF calibrate.

    The other potential factors are the actual encoding of the film, for all I know the BR version suffers from the same issues.

    Sound was mostly very good, I'd even say fantastic in many places.

    I am definitely enjoying this device so far, so I will continue to work on getting the PQ thing figured out and post back further reviews.

    If anyone else has seen Spy Game in HDX and would like to comment, please do. Make sure to mention your TV model as well. An naturally I was connected through HDMI.
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    Re: Watched my first HDX film, here's my short take

    Originally posted by jokeysmurf View Post
    If anyone else has seen Spy Game in HDX and would like to comment, please do. Make sure to mention your TV model as well. An naturally I was connected through HDMI.
    If you've got the change, I would also rent the HD version and compare the two. I' think you will see a big difference between them. This would take the quality of the title provided to VUDU out of the picture.

    If you're a glutton for scientific curiosity, I would also rent the SD version as well.

    I would certainly be interested in the results.

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      Re: Watched my first HDX film, here's my short take

      Originally posted by HeadHodge View Post
      I Want Lossless Compression !!!
      I want compression that adds detail.

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        Re: Watched my first HDX film, here's my short take

        Originally posted by jleavens View Post
        I want compression that adds detail.
        Point taken Pick Nicker.

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          Re: Watched my first HDX film, here's my short take

          Originally posted by HeadHodge View Post
          If you've got the change, I would also rent the HD version and compare the two. I' think you will see a big difference between them. This would take the quality of the title provided to VUDU out of the picture.

          If you're a glutton for scientific curiosity, I would also rent the SD version as well.

          I would certainly be interested in the results.
          I will do this, if I can find SpyGame on BR at Blockbuster. I'll run it through my PS3 which I have found to be of pretty good quality for playback, even of DVDs. I also have an Oppo DVD player, but I disconnected it a long time ago.

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            Re: Watched my first HDX film, here's my short take

            Just for visual kicks, try Speed Racer HDX http://www.vudu.com/movies/Title/Speed-Racer/

            Do not watch this if you have epilepsy or are prone to seizures.

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              Re: Watched my first HDX film, here's my short take

              Originally posted by jokeysmurf View Post
              Watched Spy Game tonight. Overall, I thought that there were some significant issues in the picture quality, however I am not ready to place any blame on Vudu, there are a lot of factors here. I will need to look at a bunch of other HDX titles to compare.

              First thoughts, the film had a lot of black crush, there was almost no shadow detail. Skin, especially faces, seemed to lack detail and sometimes appeared glossy.

              Positives though are the film grain, it showed through.

              My first best are that my Fujitsu needs to be ISF calibrated against the Vudu. However as far as I know Vudu doesn't offer a test pattern. This is a big thing that has to be offered. If you're going for near BR quality, you need to be able to ISF calibrate.

              The other potential factors are the actual encoding of the film, for all I know the BR version suffers from the same issues.

              Sound was mostly very good, I'd even say fantastic in many places.

              I am definitely enjoying this device so far, so I will continue to work on getting the PQ thing figured out and post back further reviews.

              If anyone else has seen Spy Game in HDX and would like to comment, please do. Make sure to mention your TV model as well. An naturally I was connected through HDMI.
              I have watched many HDX films on my Samsung 40a750 and I have to say I am very impressed. I would say the quality is right up there with HD DVD and BR. I didnt have the levels of black crush you described but I would think ( and from what I have read elsewhere) that the flaws that are inherent in our downloads are from the oringinal film material not from vudu. I will be honest I am sensitive to film discrepancies and I was an early HD DVD adapter and I even owned BR for a short time and Vudu has done a wonderful job with HDX. I own Chronicles of Riddick on HD DVD and I am gonna download the HDX version and compare.

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