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The Matrix in HD
The pros and cons of the Matrix trilogy have been argued ad nauseum, so I will limit myself to the HD-DVD version. <
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>The transfer to HD of these movies is astounding. The sound is crystal clear and the picture is stunning (in 1080). The reflections caught in Morpheus' sunglasses and the individual clarity of water drops brings these already visually stunning movies to another level. <
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>My nitpick is with certain special effects, notably the bullet-time effect. When transferred to HD the bullet-time effect looks slightly grainy and pixelated compared to the rest of the film. <
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>Nitpicks aside, this is still a very entertaining movie trilogy and the HD experience makes it exponentially better.

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Problem with the double-sided media...
Ordinarily i would have given this box set 5 stars, but i've taken it down to a 2 because of the questionable quality of the double sided HD DVDs used. The Matrix plays fine, but Matrix Reloaded refuses to start up 80% of the time and Matrix Revolutions has never successfully played through the part of the movie where Jada Pinkett-Smith is trying to pilot the hovership to Zion whilst outrunning the sentinels (it always freezes and distorts). I own about a dozen other titles and these are the only two that give me problems. I should point out that all my other HD-DVDs are single sided. <
>I am using the Xbox 360 HD-DVD player.

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I love HD
This set gets a 5 purely on the fact that the movies have never looked or sounded better. I am only rating the Audio/Video quality not the actual movies themselves. I am not happy with the HD-DVD cases, I am not sure if Blu-Ray is the same but they don't stay closed. If you like Matrix this is truly the Ultimate set.