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The Fifth Element [Blu-ray] [SteelBook] [Only @ Best Buy] [1997]

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1 out of 5

Cool steel book art, old, blurry, transfer.

By OliverqueenMN

So I went to Best Buy today and picked up the new steel book. I pop the Blu ray in and the beginning of the movie outside in the desert is all riddled with dirt. I watch about 45 minutes and just think the image is soft. I get out my original Blu ray, the second Blu Ray release in the USA with the better transfer which is AVS encoded. It looks like Sony used the old, blurrier, upconverted inferior transfer instead that is MPEG encoded. I'm pretty bummed. I payed $15 for a steel book with and old, outdated transfer. Nice screw up Sony.

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Confirmed - The transfers differ between blu-rays

December 12, 2014

If you check the sku for this online the mpeg conversion rate for this blu-ray is lower than the original remastered blu-ray.

I Don't think there is a "old version vs new batch" it is just a lower mpeg conversion Codec: MPEG-2 (17.55 Mbps) vs the remastered Codec: MPEG-4 AVC (27.88 Mbps). The gent is right, but I don't know if shelling out 15 for a cool new box but lower quality video is worth it.