Best DVD for demonstrating your home cinema?

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JulianJ
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Posted January 26, 2013 at 00:55 GMT
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All,

Does anyone have any suggestions for DVD's or Blu ray's that best demonstrate the capabilities of a B&O home cinema?

Perhaps featuring Dolby 7.1?

Especially those that are family friendly!

Thank you in advance for any suggestions!

kind Regards

Julian

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jldmelb
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Posted January 26, 2013 at 05:55 GMT
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Any Pixar movie. They always look fantastic on a B&O TV.

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elephant
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Posted January 26, 2013 at 05:57 GMT
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Jonathan wrote:

Any Pixar movie. They always look fantastic on a B&O TV.

Or live music concerts ... now wait, he said family friendly ... 

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butch1 (archived2)
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Posted January 27, 2013 at 18:35 GMT
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I love the Batman films,especially the tumbler scene,in Batman Begins,not sure if its family friendly though.

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RussR (archived2)
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Posted January 27, 2013 at 19:33 GMT
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Gosh, so many and for so many different reasons.

Overall give me "UP!" or "Avatar".  We're running "Casino Royale" in the shop at the moment, and chapter 4 gets a surprising amount of comment.

Surprisingly Chris Botti's "In Boston" is a great demo for both picture and sound.  Watch the Katherine McPhee track (no, really!)  On our BV-7 it becomes obvious that her hair is more than one shade of dark brown/black and a lot of other TV's just don't pick that out.

Along these lines I can also recommend "Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds Live at Radio City".  Mostly acoustic set, but tru "Still Water/Don't Drink the Water" on BL-9's or 5's.  Although parts of this concert are not completely Family Friendly.

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Rolf2
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Posted January 27, 2013 at 20:06 GMT
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I recommend to try Ice Age. It is really brilliant picturewise and if you have the right tools to reproduce the sound it performs very well. Family friendliness included :-).

If you look for nice surround sound you can try "Soldier James Ryan" (sorry, translated from german title, with Tom Hanks). Family without children below age of 16, most likely.

A good combination of sound and picture is in my eyes "Underworld Evolutions", "Matrix I - III" and "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.

Again, considering family friendliness and looking for music movies, I would go for "This is it", "Purple Rain", "Streets of Fire", "Foot Loose", "Pretty Woman" and "Dirty Dancing".

Kind regards,

Rolf

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doonesbury (archived2)
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Posted January 27, 2013 at 23:19 GMT
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elephant wrote:

Jonathan wrote:

Any Pixar movie. They always look fantastic on a B&O TV.

Or live music concerts ... now wait, he said family friendly ... 

Blue Man Group has two very entertaining concert movies that my 9 year old son loves.  These might also be a good test of your speakers' bass response.

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rikarde (archived2)
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Posted January 28, 2013 at 05:15 GMT
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rikarde (archived2)
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Posted January 28, 2013 at 05:15 GMT
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I would go for something like Pearl Harbor - Very nice when the planes fly in over Pearl Harbor. I don't know if it is too family friendly, Otherwise Avtar is also a great. 

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rob08 (archived2)
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Posted January 28, 2013 at 10:41 GMT
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I can strongly recommend Tron Legacy. Amazing visuals and stunning HD 7.1 sound.

 

Beyond that, I concur that basically any Pixar title is highest quality as well as the latest Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol or Avengers

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