What are your best-looking Blu-rays?

I recently upgraded to a 50" Samsung 1080p LED TV and this thing really shines with my Blu-ray discs. Today I watched Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and Interstellar and both movies made my jaw drop at how good it looked on this.

What are your reference Blu-rays?

 

I've got quite a few but the most stunning has to be 2001 A Space Odyssey. Simply jaw dropping.

 

The Dark Knight looked incredible along with Aviator. The 1980 Flash Gordon, although not very good if you're not a fan, looked fantastic. I was surprised. Also, Hello Dolly, Watchmen, Starship Trooper, Birdman,Skyfall and not least, Barbarella.

 

I haven't watched it for awhile, but The Searchers was one of my first blurays that looked stunning.

 

Any classic film restored by Robert A. Harris.

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. My Fair Lady
3. Spartacus

 

The Sound of Music looks amazing on blu-ray. It's always the one I put on when I want to impress people.

 

Thin Red Line - Criterion Blu-Ray - this is my only Criterion and it is stunning. Good movie too.

 

Filed my blu-ray player up a high shelf after watchin' all those digital movies on BD. Even thinkin' of starting a website about blown out movie mastering.
Nah just gone back to the old VCR and occasional laserdisc (heck why didnt they make a vinyl version of that format huh ? Drop yer needle on Star Wars.

 

Cool story. Send all your Blu-ray discs to me.

 

Pick a title you like, ask me about it. Simple.

Blu-ray.com - Blu-ray Movie collection »

 

I don't see many blown out Bluray discs......a lot of this is due to improper TV or Bluray player adjustment.

 

Braveheart looks nice.

 

Rise Of the Guardians...

 

Am I one of the few who think most dvd looks better than bluray????
I must be stupid...

 

what TV and bluray player are you using?

 

TV is samsung 46" led.
Ps4 or sony.

But it's not only my tv and bluray, it's most, even at best buy....

Maybe I'm just weird

 

on some Bluray discs I see much improvement others barely...but, never has the DVD looked better IMO.

 

I'll make an example of one that truly bothers me...
The dune.

DVD seems to look so much better and crisp than bluray. I had both copies.

 

Your Blu-ray players are going to upscale and enhance your DVDs to make them look more like Blu-rays. Maybe they just do a really good job.

I'll bet if you hooked up an old DVD-only player to your system, you wouldn't have the same opinion.

 

Baraka looks amazing, if you're up for no narrative.

Mark

 

I do not have the bluray...

 

no matter how good a job the Bluray player upscales...I've never seen a better looking DVD than a bluray equivalent.

 

I've seen some. I play my movies on my PC, and my video renderer is madVR, which can do amazing things to SD material using the full power of your graphics card. Criterion has some excellent quality DVDs that look great on my system, and Blu-rays that are badly mastered (especially "classic" films) don't look as good.

For example, for several years the only BR version of The Third Man was the StudioCanal release. The Criterion DVD version looked better on my system than that BR. Now, of course, the Criterion Blu-ray (from a new restoration) blows away all previous versions, BR or DVD.

 

the larger the screen the more one can see defects...

 

Of those displayed on my Oppo, "Avatar" was in class of its own (did not access 3D). From my own collection, and as an F1 fan, "Rush" is my favorite.