So, while the player was taking its own sweet time with the final stages of the processing, I went ahead and used the PlayStation 3 to watch the Blu-ray of PLANET OF THE APES.
Now, the only copy of the movie I ever had on DVD was the first DVD release. It was a nonanamorphic letterboxed copy of the film with lots of dirt, scratches, and reel change markers on it.
What a difference this Blu-ray disc of the film is! BEautifully clean and artifact free, it was pure pleasure to view it from beginning to end.
The DTS-HD MA 5.1 sound wasn't superb, but it's certainly the fullest the film has ever sounded on a home theater system.
Over the course of the next weeks, I'll be working my way throuigh the other four films in the series on Blu-ray since I bought the entire set when Amazon had a big markdown on it a week or two ago.