DVD's we recommend for their detail, picture and sound quality:

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: Excellent transfer with amazing detail. A truly impressive soundtrack.    
Spiderman, Spiderman 2: Transfer maintains the true color balance of the theatrical release as well as any movie I've seen.    
The Incredibles: The pseudo-reality of The Incredibles is well- served by Pixar's high-water-mark rendering.  The magnificent direct digital transfer is unequivocally stunning in it's faithful 2.39:1 aspect ratio.    
The Day After Tomorrow: The scene where the tidal wave hits New York is a major test for any subwoofer.    
Seabiscuit: The race scenes provide the perfect test to see if the video processor in your display can handle fast motion without digital artifacts.    
Fleetwood Mac, The Dance, track #10: Although most of the full band tracks are tubby sounding in the bass, the solo acoustic cuts are great, particularly this one. If you have the system dialed in right the vocals will lock to the center and a lot of snap to the finger picked guitar.

 

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The Fifth Element, timer start at 91:02: If you have to show crash, bang, boom, this is the one. This sequence does it in style with cartoon violence, quick edits, great color which shows off video performance nicely.

 

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Austin Powers: An excellent DVD for detail and picture quality, with lots of bright colors. Very good sound as well.

 

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Ronin: A quick-paced action thriller with immense sound effects, especially during the car chase sequences, which are some of the best ever filmed.

 

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James Taylor, Live - a great quality concert video performance.

 

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Kenny Loggins, Live, Outside from the Redwoods - another great concert video performance. Excellent audio on both of these.

 

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