Re: 2001: A Space Odyssey

Wow, Blu Ray can improve old movies? I would love to see screen captures 
or video clips of this! I don't own a BR player yet (not for a few 
years). And I thought DVD was the limit of looking good for old movies.

On 4/4/2008 2:49 PM PT, Alan Browne typed:

> 
> I saw a BD v. of this classic at the store yesterday and resisted the 
> urge to buy it.
> 
> At home last night I played the standard DVD version on my BluRay player

> (Panasonic) to my plasma tv.  The player upconverts very nicely to
1080p.
> 
> Fantastic.  And also discovered that the "ape" scene at the beginning 
> was filmed indoors.  On the old television screen I would swear it was 
> filmed outdoors.
> 
> With the DVD (non-HD mind you) you could actually see errors in the 
> studio backdrop where painting (or cleaning) had been badly done!  (Not 
> in all backgrounds but in one or two of them).
> 
> Great movie, needless to say.
> 
> Also at the store was a BD version of "The Fifth Element" a visual candy

> bar of a movie, and the price was pretty good.  But I remembered 
> somebody somewhere posting that the first edition of the BD version was 
> very poor technically and that it had been recalled.  So I asked the 
> clerk to check.  Sure enough she found that the store would be receiving

> a new version with a different catalog number (and higher price) soon. I

> wondered aloud why the one in store had not been returned... (no reply).
> 
> Anyway, few good movies to buy to date, and prices remain too high.  I 
> rented "No Country..." (very good) but it was at an obscene price at the

> store... can wait.
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