Gladiator Blu-ray vs DVD Comparison Review
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1) Dreamworks - Region 1 - NTSC
Video
2.31 Original Aspect Ratio
16X9 enhanced
Average Bitrate: 6.60 mb/s
NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s
2.32:1 Original Aspect Ratio
Audio
English DTS 6.1 (discrete), Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Edition Details:
• Commentary by director Ridley Scott
• HBO First Look Making Of...
• The Learning Channel's The Bloodsport of a Gladiator
• 25 minutes of Deleted Scenes with director's commentary
• Treasure Chest 7 minute montage of additional unused footage
• Interview with Hans Zimmer on scoring the film
• Two Behind-the-scenes featurettes
• One-Of-A-Kind production diary written by actor Spencer Treat Clark
• Slide show featuring concept art and storyboards
• Photo gallery from Behind-the-scenes of Gladiator set
• Two-disc set
DVD Release Date: November 21, 2000
Double slim keep case
2) Columbia Tri-Star Home Video - Region 2 - PAL
Video
16X9 enhanced
Average Bitrate: 5.98 mb/s
PAL 720x576 25.00 f/s
Audio
English DTS 6.1 ES (matrix), English Dolby Digital 5.1
Edition Details:
• Commentary by director Ridley Scott
• HBO First Look Making Of...
• The Learning Channel's The Bloodsport of a Gladiator
• 25 minutes of Deleted Scenes with director's commentary
• Treasure Chest 7 minute montage of additional unused footage
• Interview with Hans Zimmer on scoring the film
• Two Behind-the-scenes featurettes
• One-Of-A-Kind production diary written by actor Spencer Treat Clark
• Slide show featuring concept art and storyboards
• Photo gallery from Behind-the-scenes of Gladiator set
• Two-disc set
DVD Release Date: November 20, 2000
Keepcase
3) Paramount (2-disc Sapphire Series) - Region 'A' - Blu-ray
Video
1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray
Disc Size: 48,335,265,792 bytes
Feature: 40,230,770,688 bytes
Video Bitrate: 23.18 Mbps
Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Audio
DTS-HD Master Audio English 4404 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4404 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 24-bit)
DUBs: Dolby Digital Audio French 640 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps
Dolby Digital Audio Spanish 640 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps
Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 224 kbps / Dolby Surround
Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 224 kbps
Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 224 kbps
Edition Details:
• Audio Commentary—Two separate commentaries accompany the original theatrical version and extended version of the film.
• The Scrolls of Knowledge Trivia track
• Visions From Elysium: Topic Marker
Disc 2
• Visions From Elysium TOP portal
• Strength And Honor: Creating The World of Gladiator. (8 chapters/topics 3:16:50)
The Aurelian Archives
• The Making of Gladiator—HBO First Look special (25:03)
• Gladiator Games: The Roman Bloodsport—Learning Channel special. (50:03)
• Hans Zimmer: Scoring Gladiator (20:42)
• An Evening With Russell Crowe (27:15)
• Maximus Uncut - Between Takes With Russell Crowe (7:59)
• My Gladiator Journal—Personal (text)
• Image & Design— 5 Featurettes and galleries covering the production design, storyboards, costumes and more.
• 5 Abandoned Sequences or Deleted Scenes
• VFX Explorations: Germania & Rome (23:50)
• Trailers (2 - 2:50 in total)
• 20 TV Spots (8:55 in total)
NOTE: Extras have optional subtitles in English, French, Spanish or Korean
Blu-ray Release Date: September 1st, 2009
Standard Blu-ray case inside cardboard box
This is part of Paramount's new 'Sapphire Series' (as is Braveheart). You immediately get the choice of viewing the 2:35:01 long Theatrical Version from 'MM A.D.' or the 2:50:58, unrated, Extended Version from 'MMV A.D.' (very cute). There is an optional Introduction by Ridley Scott. These 2 versions are seamlessly branched and take up over 40 Gig of space on the first dual-layered Blu-ray disc. The image appears to surpass even the 1080i HD TV (1.78.1 open matted) - which skin tones look quite a bit redder. Paramount's MPEG4 AVC transfer seems to have improved in every single facet of the visuals although it's not without it's digital manipulations with some minor edge-enhancement and some DNR. The image is certainly brighter - perhaps more than it may have been intended to be. It's tighter all around and is pretty impressive looking and I hope the captures below support this because this is one of the most anticipated Blu-rays I've seen this year - although some will snub the manipulation. Strangely the 'extended scenes' seem to have had no digital tinkering. People who project to a very large screen will find the filtering more visible. The image is frequently dimensional. There is also a marginal amount more information shown in the side edges (compared to the DVD versions).
While the video quality can make some swoon the audio doesn't take a backseat. The DTS-HD Master 5.1 at a whopping 4404 kbps is ABSOLUTELY perfect. It has abundant separation with powerful bass and effect subtleties reaching the rear speakers all encompassed by Zimmer's uplifting score floating with nobility around the room. The first flaming arrow that is shot at around 9-minutes in seems to create an incredible amount of effect noise - just from that one motion! Then it just gets better in the battle sequence. It's absolutely reference and a perfect disc for demonstration purposes.
Отредактировано AlexF (2009-09-04 13:09:37)
