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...grittier mood than he was in the days when Vice was a sensational TV presence. And he does not have a taste here for the muted tones that made Collateral so seductive in 2004. He's more in the dark-of-night Heat mode. He uses high-definition (HD) digital cameras, since HD imparts more visual information than film stock, especially in low light. In terms of cinematography, Mann may embody the future of large-scale commercial movies...
...problem can be solved with a firmware upgrade, administered via disc. The company also stated that its review samples were not from the same production run as the ones now in retail, but I still urge caution. The BD-P1000 is first-generation equipment, and it, like Toshiba's HD DVD player, may be buggy. (Toshiba recently told me that it too was offering a firmware update disc for its player...
After months of spear shaking on both sides, the first skirmishes in the high-definition disc format wars have begun. In early May, I looked at Toshiba?s chosen format, HD DVD. Today, I present the very first Blu-ray disc player, Samsung?s significantly more expensive BD-P1000...
...resolution of 1920 x 1080 lines (over 2 million pixels) rather than DVD's 720 x 480 (nearly 350,000 pixels), it can't help but look nicer. In fact, it is possible that our eyes really couldn't benefit from anything higher in quality than Blu-ray or HD...
...When I told a friend of mine about the high-definition movie viewing afforded by Blu-ray (and by HD DVD), he wasn't impressed. He said, ?This is how it's supposed to be.? Standard DVDs may sell big, but their content is simply the wrong size for the high-definition TV sets finding their way into more and more homes across the country. One high-def disc format must win, though it's still too early to know which. There will likely be a balanced roster of titles on each side by Christmas - HD DVD anchored by Universal...