Resident Evil: R1US Superbit DVD vs US Blu-Ray

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 14 Jun 2008, 19:57

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 14 Jun 2008, 23:43

Thanks Tom. There isn't much of a difference at all.

If I wanted it. I'd likely still upgrade though.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 15 Jun 2008, 00:03

Good job it's a shit film then.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 15 Jun 2008, 12:58

No idea what is going on there, but the difference is far bigger when I compared my blu Ray with the Superbit and standard German edition.

Pick a scene like the lazer tunnel, or the camera footage when she is walking thru the mansion at the beginning and see how much the difference is, the compession esspecially is not great on the superbit sometimes and the deatil on them scenes I mentioned is very evidently better.

From them snaps it looks like barley no difference at all, very strange. Saying that most people do not own the Superbit even (which has much better compression), just the normal version of the film which is far, far more compressed and a vaster difference. So it does depend on what edition you own, if you own any of the standard versions and not the Superbit the difference is way more obvious.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 15 Jun 2008, 13:43

the compession esspecially is not great on the superbit sometimes

Yep, cap 1 is a prime example.

From what I've seen, close-ups are sharper (caps 3 and 6) but wide shots are soft.
I picked two wide shots at random (caps 4 and 5) and they both look crap.

Maybe other scenes might show a bigger difference.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 15 Jun 2008, 13:51

Capture 1 is such a vague shot I can barely see any difference whatsoever.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 15 Jun 2008, 13:52

But It does go to show you the Superbit was a vast improvment over the standard dvds with tonnes of extras etc.. as some of them look like crap (the origanal Region 1 version was a compressed mess)

At least the Superbit was pretty good looking at them caps above, no big blocks at all. Its suprising how close the Superbit is to the Blu Ray in all of them caps.