I find it very odd that A Bug’s Life still hasn’t made it to Australia (and apparently the UK) when Monster’s Inc. was released promptly. The Toy Stories are also being released soon. I realise it is region-free, but my collection will look odd with all but one being Australian. I like consistency!
Yes, I’m aware that I’m being silly, but I’m upgrading to blu-ray when I already have all the regular DVDs, so I kinda want everything to be perfect for such a price.
Ditto on that, Flister. I’m (trying) to do the same thing as you, upgrading my DVDs to Blu-rays, but it’s not easy when we don’t even have a release date to look forward to. Sounds like you might’ve made the right decision, Deszo.
Why wouldn’t you want to upgrade your Pixar movies to Blu-ray? They all look so good in high definition! The grand scale of A Bug’s Life in particular blew my mind.
Well, it looks (or sounds) like the German Blu-ray of A Bug’s Life has, well, bugs.
While it is a minor annoyance that the loading indicator sometimes remains on top of the main menu rather than disappearing, a rather large bummer was the audio mix.
The DTS core portion of the English DTS-HD master audio track sounds like the volume of the center channel is too low, which makes the dialogue often hard to understand, especially when there’s a lot going on in the surround channels.
The Dolby Digital track on the A Bug’s Life PAL DVD sounds perfectly fine in that regard, as do all other DVDs and Blu-rays (Pixar or otherwise) I have.
Unfortunately my AV-receiver has no HDMI inputs, so I cannot say if the full DTS-HD track would solve the issue.
I can’t believe they managed to sneak out a UK release without me noticing. Not only that but no dvd double pack. Rubbish. I might as well stick with my region free version. Obviously nobody cares about this film
I care about ABL, deszo
I only noticed the Blu-Ray after having a good shufty through HMV. There wasn’t really that much publicity at all for it, was there?
And OT, but I have a friend in Harrogate! ! You live in a nicer place than I do
Well the DVD I got was a DVD version that came out a long time ago and has 2 discs. It has extra stuff. When I got it, Blu-Ray didn’t exist yet for a number of years.
I’ll probably get the Blu-Ray though if they have it at the store when I go tomorrow.