Ride Around the World Blu-ray captures ‘breathtaking images’
December 7, 2009 – 2:13 pmBlu-rayDefinition.com offers their review of the Blu-ray edition of Ride Around the World. The film explores the thriving global cowboy culture that has helped shape Western civilization for a thousand years.
Ride Around the World is all about cowboys. This IMAX exhibition film from Giant Screen Films and Trinity Films traces the origins and history of cowboys around the world, from the beginnings in Morocco, through the Spanish Conquistadors to Mexico and the iconic Texan Cowboy on the range.
The filmmakers capture breathtaking images of the American range, watery Argentine horse country and even the mountainous regions of British Columbia as they trace the routes of the cowboy. It packs a good amount of information into its brief 40-minute running as well. It’s the perfect platform for an IMAX film — wide-open spaces, verdant fields, ice capped mountains, stampeding horses, and an interesting tale.
Ride Around the World is the sort of IMAX film you’ll be happy to head out to see with the whole family on a Saturday afternoon and it comes highly recommended.
Ride Around the World looks absolutely beautiful on this Blu-ray release from Image Entertainment. The 70mm large-format has been reformatted to a 1.78:1 aspect ratio in a VC-1 1080p/24 encoding that looks pristine. Colors are vivid; detail is crisp and well extended into the background, only occasionally showing signs of its reformatting by softening a tad. Flesh tones are natural, shadow detail is strong, and there is no evidence of compression artifacts or post-processing errors.
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