I will watch it yes, in cinema or dvd I'm not sure. The concept of the heroes reminds me of another movie I saw at cinema some years back. Mind-block. But it was not the known heroes. I think it was sort of like the Magnificent 7 concept, which by the way was a rip-off of a Japanese story about samurai made many years earlier (which I have on video tape.)

Marketing: many years ago my sister said buy the cd's of your fav albums now or they will probably become unavailable. So I went out and bought a live album which I previously had on vinyl. I had a recorded copy of this on a not so expensive cassette tape. Guess what, the cassette tape version sounded better than the CD. I was less than impressed. And to rub it in, the record store released a digitally remixed version to make it sound like the original LP and it also had bonus songs. grr. I downloaded mp3 versions of it but decided I wanted the better version. It was many years before I finally decided to buy the digitally improved version. Next they will come out with a 24-bit version I'm sure. I've had a similar issue with many bands albums.
A typical example I should not quote, but a french artist who keeps re-doing his original recording, mixed in 64 bit, then mixed in 96 bit, then a dual 24 bit cd release. sighs
Do the record companies really expect us to buy all these different versions when we had the original recording which was better than some of the earliest CD releases anyway.

On the BD front, I believe Europe and Australia BD players will play videos in the original film 24P. But USA has not yet caught up, obviously due to marketing reasons they are slowly getting there. Doing it slowly to try to get as much money in meantime and will only release the 24 frame-rate compatibility when it suits them as something to move up to.

Potentially BD offers much better picture and sound quality, especially if you have the supported playback equipment. However, I read an interesting article which reviewed BD releases of previously released movies and found the quality was no better than the DVD release. lol What a rip off hey. People think they are getting better but are not. I will try to find that article to quote here. It was a UK review which is equivalent to Australia's Choice magazine, www.choice.com.au Uh, discoverd the page is members only. Details in small print below:
Bit off-topic, was this link Digital rights - who owns your download?

Hi LOTR

You know, your post above reminded me of the time when music CDs first came out, they were awful.

We were told that the sound would have have unparalleled clarity but they sounded clinical and tinny. We were told that CDs would not be affected by scratches or poor handling, unlike vinyl. However CDs suffered from bad handling just as much as vinyl did.

You may not know this but, to recreate the atmosphere you got with vinyl CD producers recorded artificial pops and crackles into various recordings, as if that would increase sales.

Only when an engineer developed a bias recording technique, which is still in use today, to make CD sound like vinyl did CD sales start to take off. In fact, I believe (unless told otherwise), from that point onwards were other recordings methods further developed to give us the quality of sound we now get from current CDs.

However, there are still those, like myself, that still prefer the sound of recordings pressed on vinyl to CDs.

I guess that I am saying, I'm cynical and distrustful when a new consumer technology hits the streets, along with all the accompanying overblown hype and hoopla.


UK Bob