WALL-E on Blu-ray
Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 2:21 am
Plot ... What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, WALL
I just popped for an HD system using post-Christmas sale prices. I got the $300 instant rebate on a 46" Samsung 850 series LCD HDTV, a Samsung BD-P2500 Blu-Ray player and a Harmon Kardon HKTS-18 speaker set with 200w sub and 5 satellites - each with dual 3" mid-range cones and a 3/4" tweeter.
I've had a Sony STR-DE845 digital AV receiver for a half-dozen years but never got a 5.1 speaker system. I'd been using it with a set of small Radio Shack Minimus bookshelf speakers off the CRT SDTV and DVD player.
Santa brought us the Wall-E Blu-Ray disk and it was the first BD movie I watched.
Holy smokes! Quite a visual and audio treat. We just ran the movie from start to finish without looking at any of the extra features but the sound was rich and detailed. The colors and video images were well saturated without being overly so.
I'll be playing this disk a few more times but am on my way out to purchase some additional audio cables so I can have the BD-P2500 perform the DTS-HD Master Audio decoding and ouput to the Sony via the analog outputs.
HD and Pixar are a pretty strong match.