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Iron Man
Ultimate 2-Disc Edition

Screencaps
December 25, 2008

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Iron Man
Ultimate 2-Disc Edition
Features: English Dolby TrueHD soundtrack.
Codec / Resolution: MPEG-4 AVC / 1080p
Movie File Size: 33.44 GB
Average Bitrate: 27.13 Mbps
Distributor: Paramount
Region: A
Movie Release: May 2, 2008
This Release: September 30, 2008
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 2 hrs 6 mins
MSRP: $39.99
Current Price: Check Price / Purchase

The following are screencaps from Iron Man — Ultimate 2-Disc Edition on Blu-ray. This is one fine looking disc. What's interesting to note, is even with a mild filter to give a slight gritty feel to the movie, it still ends up crystal clear. The overall film size (video + audio) is about 33.44GB, with a video bitrate average of 27.13 Mbps. Iron Man certainly benefits from the BD-50 disc. Because of the extra features being in HD, they had to be put on another Blu-ray disc. So, everything about this 2-Disc Blu-ray release has ULTIMATE written all over it. No barriers were put in the way with this release.

Screencaps of Iron Man — Ultimate 2-Disc Edition on Blu-ray

Shown below are screencaps from Iron Man. I'm just overwhelmingly impressed. I really can't find any major flaw or color inconsistency.

Iron Man - Blu-ray
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Open the pod bay doors, Hal. Couldn't help but notice the similarity here.

Iron Man - Blu-ray
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This is really a nice image on a larger HDTV, and the beautiful dark reds really come out to play with your high-def television set.

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Couldn't help myself. Very nice skin tones.

Iron Man - Blu-ray
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If you look at the full-res image of the car, there such a small hint of grain appearance, it's basically not even worthy of mentioning. This is a naturally crisp image. Normally, with a color such as silver, a grainy image would jump out at you. In this case, we just a small hint of grain to make the movie more realistic.

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Now, in this screencap, we have a wide variety of black levels. The black levels come across absolutely fantastic on my Panasonic 50" "768p" plasma.

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Final Thoughts

Not much to really say. This is one spectacular movie from start to finish in terms of video.