Blu-Ray Best Of The Best - for discussing releases only

[SuperBeatBoy]

Corpse Bride was absolutly terrible. Didn't the guy who did Nightmare & Coraline also do James and the Giant Peach. Haven't seen it myself, always been meaning too.

[Jebus]

I always laugh when people say Nightmare Before Christmas is their favourite Tim Burton film (I used to think it was too, who wouldn't when his name is so prominently featured in the title?)

Watch Corpse Bride (ew) and then Coraline together - it soon becomes very obvious where Nightmare's real talent came from.

So are you saying you rate Coraline quite highly? I'm not sure it's that great, I mean, I didn't hate it, but I certainly wouldn't say it was an amazing film or anything.

Hope to get some more Band of Brothers in before my holiday ends, but I'm experiencing issues with my PS3 at the moment, Blu-Rays are incredibly quiet, watching something like Band of Brothers or Coraline and the sound is about "+20" on what normal listening pleasure would be, however, then an aircraft goes overhead or the music swells and it's ridicilous, kid-waking volume!

Is that normal or is there an issue? Don't think it's my amp as it's perfect for everything else!

[dvdmike]

So are you saying you rate Coraline quite highly? I'm not sure it's that great, I mean, I didn't hate it, but I certainly wouldn't say it was an amazing film or anything.

Hope to get some more Band of Brothers in before my holiday ends, but I'm experiencing issues with my PS3 at the moment, Blu-Rays are incredibly quiet, watching something like Band of Brothers or Coraline and the sound is about "+20" on what normal listening pleasure would be, however, then an aircraft goes overhead or the music swells and it's ridicilous, kid-waking volume!

Is that normal or is there an issue? Don't think it's my amp as it's perfect for everything else!

What is the brd sound output set at in the triangle menu?

[Jebus]

Linear PCM from the main XMB settings area.

[dvdmike]

No I mean as you play a brd hit triangle then there is a osd with a speaker picture, it is a brd sound level option try and fiddle with that

[NeoStuey]

Anyone know if the Gunbuster movies ever made it out over here officially? I see it listed on ebay and amazon marketplace but i'm dubious.

Yes they did I have the Gunbuster Diebuster the UK boxset right here.

[SuperBeatBoy]

Yes they did I have the Gunbuster Diebuster the UK boxset right here.

How is it?

[Spatial]

So are you saying you rate Coraline quite highly? I'm not sure it's that great, I mean, I didn't hate it, but I certainly wouldn't say it was an amazing film or anything.

Hope to get some more Band of Brothers in before my holiday ends, but I'm experiencing issues with my PS3 at the moment, Blu-Rays are incredibly quiet, watching something like Band of Brothers or Coraline and the sound is about "+20" on what normal listening pleasure would be, however, then an aircraft goes overhead or the music swells and it's ridicilous, kid-waking volume!

Is that normal or is there an issue? Don't think it's my amp as it's perfect for everything else!

I get this with my amp and PCM too. I always have to make sure it's outputting good old Dolby Digital 5.1 if I want to be able to hear the whole range of sounds and not have everything very, very quiet.

No idea why because I was always told that that PCM was always better as it was uncompressed.

[anephric]

Watch Corpse Bride (ew) and then Coraline together - it soon becomes very obvious where Nightmare's real talent came from.

Say that after watching Monkey Bone

[Lyris]

Holy crap, that looks horrible! I've never even heard of that before.

So are you saying you rate Coraline quite highly? I'm not sure it's that great, I mean, I didn't hate it, but I certainly wouldn't say it was an amazing film or anything.

Yeah, I loved Coraline.

[Jebus]

I get this with my amp and PCM too. I always have to make sure it's outputting good old Dolby Digital 5.1 if I want to be able to hear the whole range of sounds and not have everything very, very quiet.

No idea why because I was always told that that PCM was always better as it was uncompressed.

How would one go about ensuring good old Dolby digital?

[Matt]

How would one go about ensuring good old Dolby digital?

Set the PS3 to bitstream, I think that will do standard DD 5.1. However, HD sound is vastly better.

Best bet, what I've done is set me center to +3.0 so voices are higher. I keep it there, then during night (or daytime if people are around), turn on Night mode on my amp. Limits the dynamic range. You can always turn off the sub if that's an issue, I often do for gaming but not films (gunshots can really shake the place).

And the PS3 does have a dynamic mode you can play around with to really limit the peaks and even things out.

[Goldenballs]

Jebus, have you got Audio Dynamic Range Control (or something like that) ON in the Video Settings of your PS3?

[dvdmike]

Say that after watching Monkey Bone

OI!!!!!

[Jebus]

Jebus, have you got Audio Dynamic Range Control (or something like that) ON in the Video Settings of your PS3?

Do you know I think I might have!