I was admiring the Blu-Ray player demos at Best Buy today and watched a segment of Batman and Pearl Harbor. What I saw amazed me. It was as if they were never filmed but were actually happening live and being monitored via HD CCTV. It was the strangest feeling because that suspended reality feeling I get from movies was...well...suspended. I found it difficult to enjoy what I was seeing as a movie because I was so caught up with taking in the spectacle of it. Some of the CG effects in Pearl Harbor looked much less realistic (a few very short shots) because of the high level of detail.

I have mixed feelings about it and was wondering how you folks see it. I find myself both amazed and disappointed at the same time. We'll be going with the Samsung 52" LCD and Blu-Ray as soon as our remodel is complete but now I think my home theater is going to now feel like a home HD CCTV monitoring station.

Don't get me wrong, I'm truly impressed. There's just something unsettling about it. I wonder if this is how people felt when color TVs first came out?