Description
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a fast-paced drama about a passionate team of forensic investigators trained to solve crimes the old-fashioned way – by examining the evidence. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is on the case 24-7, scouring the scene, collecting the irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that will solve the mystery.
Being a long-time CSI fan, I was really looking forward to owning the first season in wide-screen format on Blu-ray. Unfortunately, this set does not come close to meeting my expectations.
This release has the worst video quality I have ever seen on Blu-ray. Even allowing for the age of the show, the picture is overly grainy, with dirty spots, and the color is over-saturated and has a strange orange tint. This set feels like the studio planned a Blu-ray release, realized they didn’t have the quality they needed from the original film, and just kept processing it anyway so they could cash in on the Blu-ray hype.
Not-so-bonus: Disc 1 contains a 2-3 minute advertisement for the upcoming Star Trek Blu-ray set that cannot be skipped or fast-forwarded through.
Rating: 1 / 5
Please can anyone owning this title tell me if there are also English subtitles included in this blu-ray edition?
Thanks, R o n
Update 09/08/2009: I learned from an other reviewer that indeed there are English subtitles included. Given the fact that some people already complaint about relatively soft conversations, more people may benefit from turning on English subtitles.
Rating: 4 / 5
CSI is my favorite crime show of all times after NYPD Blues.
The episodes are 3-digit coded and are list in order except for episode 103 that reside on disc 3, between episode 110 and 111.
Video: 4/5
Clean and crisp video. First time on 16:9 view format. Lose a star due to 1080i as Bluray main feature usually in 1080p.
Audio: 4/5
Part of the vocals are soft while music and sound effects are loud and clear. Sometimes need to adjust the volume to hear the conversation.
Extras: 2.5/5
Only disc 1 & 5 have Special Features, and the most of them are on disc 5. Love the packaging. Slim and space saving.
Overall: 4/5
Rating: 4 / 5
I have enjoyed CSI for many years, and I have been grateful to CBS/Chicago for their continuing high quality HD broadcasts which do justice to this beautifully filmed series. While other networks have opted to compress their HD broadcasts to push multiple channels of content through their allotted bandwidth, CBS is committed to quality — and as a viewer who wants high visual quality, I for one appreciate it.
This Blu-ray transfer more than lives up to the CBS broadcast quality level. Frankly it looks better than broadcast can deliver. There is virtually no observable compression in the video transfer. My player shows bit rates of 30-35 Mbps at times — a bit rate unmatched by most other transfers I have seen. Sometimes film grain is very evident, but given the low light conditions of some of the original scenes that is to be expected. It accurately renders the source material.
Visually, this product delivers exactly what I want in HD.
Rating: 5 / 5