Paramount Blu-ray Sapphire Series

fatchowmein

Has anyone seen one of these Sapphire Series blu-rays? Looks like the only movies available so far are Braveheart, Gladiator, and Forrest Gump. A Paramount vice chairman claims, "the Sapphire Series will deliver the best pictures in the best picture." I'm curious if anyone has seen a comparison of a Sapphire BR vs a regular BR. My local Fry's Electronics has them (on sale?) for $29.99.

http://www.homemediamagazine.com/blu-ray-disc/paramount-debuts-blu-ray-sapphire-series-16141

McLoki

Here is a thread about Gladiator and Braveheart Blu-Rays when they first came out.

Long story short - Gladiator sucked (better than DVD, but worse than expected) Braveheart was reference quality.

Basically hit or miss / the saphire standard means nothing..

Michael

millerman 3732

Godfather I and II the Coppola restoration was released this week from the Sapphire series.

Sherardp

I have Braveheart and Gladiator. Both were pretty good, not sure why there so much gripe over Gladiator though. I was happy with my purchase in the end.

danz1906

Forest Gump should be a good-one!

Ron-P

Braveheart is one of the best looking Blu-rays I've seen, flawless, jaw dropping image quality. I have not seen Gladiator. I avoided it because of the amount of flak it took.

fatchowmein

Oh, I was under the impression that there was both a BR and a Sapphire BR version kinda like what a Superbit DVD was to a regular DVD. Sorry, my mistake.

1fastz28

gladiator looked great on DVD, on blu-ray i was a bit disappointed

DMara

I found some interesting note about Gladiator BD:
http://www.dvdtown.com/news/paramount-creates-exchange-program-for-us-gladiator-blu-ray-release/7839