Survey says HD PQ trumps content, and real life
by Steven Kim 
posted Dec 22nd 2007 at 4:12PM
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Sleepy Hollow HD DVD review roundup
by Richard Lawler posted Jul 27th 2006 at 9:17PM
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder and nowhere does that appear to be more true than in reviews of Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow as released on HD DVD by Paramount. One thing that seems to be shared by all the reviews we read is that in this case the source material, with dark, largely colorless backgrounds and very present film grain. It's not the kind of movie that you look at in high definition and it practically jumps off the screen in 3D at you, making it a difficult choice for the format. However in the three reviews we found plus a discussion on AVS Forum, reactions to the quality of Paramount's 1080p VC-1 encoded effort varied widely.MovieBeam Review: A second opinion
by Ben Drawbaugh posted May 8th 2006 at 1:45PM
When MovieBeam was first announced we were really excited and as soon as we had an opportunity to check one out we took advantage of it. After spending a few days with one we wrote a review and as most of you know we were less than excited with it's HD performance.Jeremy Toeman of LIVEdigitally spent some time with the service and wrote a very comprehensive review that included many aspects that we at HD Beat left out, mostly because we have a one track mind. Of course when I read this I went straight to the good parts and was not surprised to see that Jeremy agreed with us in regards to PQ. He did cut them a little slack because he believes so many consumers can't tell when they don't have HD never the less judge different quality levels between sources.
So if you are like us and can't get enough reviews of MovieBeam shoot over and check out his review.
Thanks Jeremy
