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Michael Bay: "Blu-ray suits my films better" |
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Outspoken movie director Michael Bay, the man behind the blockbuster movie Transformers, recently commented that Microsoft wants both the HD DVD and Blu-ray formats to fail and that the whole format war is just a diversion to create confusion.
Now he adds in his site that he doesn't care about the war at all (since he can play both formats in his screening room anyway) but that the Blu-ray format suits his films better:
Does anyone out here want to challenge what I feel suits my films better in terms of look. I see every frame of my films over a hundred times before it is ever released. [...] - Blu Ray suits my films better. But that said - I don't a care about this format war because I have both formats in my screening room - I'm just filling you in on what people deep in the film industry feel ultimately is going on -
Transformers looks great even in DVD!!
The post was recounted in the AVS Forum, inquiring whether any insiders would like to comment. It got a reply from Amir, titled as a retired HD DVD insider (circa fall 2007):
- It is great that he has both formats! And that he thinks even DVD looks great. Imagine how much better HD DVD is then (and how it is possible then for something to be better than it!).
- We would be happy to invite him to a screening to show him how incredible HD DVD picture quality is on a proper projector/display. And let him find any fault using his own material.
- Both HD DVD and BD have the same "range." Both are 8-bit products and with 4:2:0 sampling. So the look he describes does not change in that respect no matter which format is used. Indeed we have different encodes of Paramount titles and not a single review that I recall has commented on the range or lighting condition being different on the formats.
- Ultimately though, I personally respect the creative person deciding different things that us engineers. For example, AVC was used on Transformers not because it produced the best fidelity/transparency, but the best look in the eye of the “creative” making the call. And we respect that also, even though it meant our codec was not used at the end of the day.
- The interactivity in HD DVD lets his creativity travel far past the linear movie experience created in theater. That I would think would be music to anyone's ear that cares about creative experiences. BD format is far behind right now in this area so he would take a step back if his wishes came through. We have shown these capabilities to many directors and they can't wait to see their future titles in HD DVD with these features.
- Anyway, I love the fact that Michael is active in forums and stays so in touch with his audience. In that respect, he could say VC-1 and HD DVDs sucks a thousand times and that would still be cool with me. I hope though, that like me, he does allow the possibility that folks posting may teach him stuff about things he may not know. I know that I have learned a lot from your postings
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The quality between the 2 is virtually IDENTICLE... he is just spewing nonsense, and not even using any technical merits.
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it's his personal preference and he should stop thinking, or atleast giving the appearance he thinks it's anything more.
BR only suits bloated things better than HD-DVD.
i submit mr. bay's ego as evidence ;)
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I still watch VHS sometimes. I don't care. Black and white isn't so bad. No sound bothers me though...
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...sometimes i've wondered if I woulda kept my SW beta...
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Also you don't suppose Amir could be bias in anyway could you? he is an MS employee after all.
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Lets talk about games though for a second though, the blueray format will give game developers stacks of breathing room in terms of the content they can put out on a disc, whilst Microsoft unfortunately refuses to use either HD optical disc technology for there's. This means that for games like blue dragon you've got it on three DVDs which I think is silly.
Back to what Bay is talking about though, there's no benefit (asside from longer movies) to blueray. HDDVD has it over blueray with the interactive menus, the real reason that he loves blueray so much is that he is being groomed by Mr Speilberg (who is an avid blueray supporter), unfortunately Bay is never going to be Speilberg's fart in terms of the quality of films.
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what better than a huge analogue magnetic tape which picture degrades in a matter of months ;3
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its for extra features such as directors commentary and the extras you get with dvd's, but in HD!!!
so if michael bay wanted to add these things to HD-DVD....oh he can't, hes ran out of storage space to put it on!!! thats most probably what he was talking about when hes on about bluray being more suitable for his films??
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yeh i c super hd tvs coming in the nxt 10 yrs or so
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Oooo... and laserdisc...!!! x3
I'd take a 11.8 inch disc that only holds 50 minutes of uncompressed analogue 425 TVL rez video over Blu-ray and HD-DVD's 1080p video any day ;D
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Also i have heard from the grapevine ( that is the internet ) that hitachi are also producing a bluray disc with 4 layers per side that CAN be used on current bluray players, thats 100gb single sided, 200gb double sided!
However I cannot confirm that the above is either fact of fiction. You decide.
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http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId+19493
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Come next month though, HD-DVD and Blu-ray's features will be almost identical.
The main difference now is just size, and anyone who has ever done video editing knows that size does matter.
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"Sales charts for...."
Sales always make a movie look better.
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