Avatar in HD?

[Changed4life]

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Originally Posted by Changed4life

Kalaxti! Im just wondering if anyone here knows where you can buy a copy of Avatar in HD for your PC? Ive been looking every-where and cant seem to find a place that sells an HD download. Id rather not resort to pirating but I cant find any place that actually sells it.....
Any help appreciated =]

(Sorry if this is in wrong section, if it is please move it, thanks!)

Just go for the pirate. I cant find and HD download.

[Vauktu]

Have you tried Amazon? What about iTunes? I haven't checked in a while, but last I saw, they sold a digital copy of Avatar in HD.

[Grif]

Avatar isn't even sold on iTunes anymore

[Aaron]

I take it you don't have a Blu-ray reader in your computer? If you do, just go swipe the free trial version of Slysoft AnyDVD HD and you'll be done in no time flat (there are other cheap/free options, that's just what I used). If you don't, might be time to consider one! (and then you'll never have to ask for digital copies again!)

[Woodsprite]

I've never heard of any place that sells downloadable HD movies. I even took a shot at looking for a place just now; no luck. You're gonna have to pirate. I know just the place, but I can't speak on it in public.

[Human No More]

If you own the Avatar bluray, you can make a backup.

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by Changed4life

Exactly what Im going to do. Bought an Asus external Blu-Ray Drive yesterday =] Now Im going to be able to take high res screen caps

Good to hear! Have fun with it!

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by Changed4life

I intend to ^_^

Im going to use the software you recommended as well, thanks for the help =]

Yep, AnyDVD HD works really well. Price is a little steep, but you get most of a month to try it for free, so just get those discs queued up!

Of course, as soon as you start ripping your Blu-ray collection, you'll be looking for deals on big hard drives! Even after you throw away all the extra stuff, the menu videos, the non-English audio programs, etc., the main movie (2D theatrical version) is still around ~36Gb. Then you rip CE, the 3D version, etc., etc., and it adds up fast!

[Human No More]

It's quite a bit better if you compress it to something like h.264, but still one big file

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by Human No More

It's quite a bit better if you compress it to something like h.264, but still one big file

It already is h.264 coming straight off the Blu-ray. I trust you just mean "compress it more."

Of course, if you do this, and yet you still post PNG screencaps (instead of JPEG) to the "Post Your HD Pictures of blahblahblah" threads, then your philosophy fails all self-consistency checks.

[Human No More]

Hey, I use an uncompressed version for mine

Technically, there are several different codecs bluray can use, but yeah, increasing the compression, which doesn't have much observable effect in terms of playback.

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by Human No More

Hey, I use an uncompressed version for mine

See you at the next UK meetup! I'll bring a few blank 2TB hard disks.

Originally Posted by Human No More

Technically, there are several different codecs bluray can use, but yeah, increasing the compression, which doesn't have much observable effect in terms of playback.

Yes, I think I have a title somewhere that uses VC-1. Relic from the HD-DVD era, methinks (as with most MPEG-2 stuff).

For manipulating the movie in Adobe Premiere (mainly to produce the anaglyphic 3D version) I re-rendered Avatar as 50Mbit/s MPEG-2 (hence making it much larger) because it edits about 10x as easily. Lots of software still hates H.264, unfortunately.