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home theater geeks get all perspiring and somewhat aroused about titles like avatar and Dark Knight but you might be surprised to learn that some of the best looking movies on blu-ray are also some of the oldest I'm Brian Cooley with the top five classic films that look incredible on a blu-ray disc these are pre-1970 movies selected from cnet editors latest list of the 40 must have blu-ray titles then we rank them by the picture quality tears found over at AVS forum's let's go put your hands up your lopsided beggar number Five's The Wizard of Oz god I hate this movie but this release looks so good I might even sit through it again with the sound downs I don't have to listen to those damn munchkin Warner's kicked out the stops on this one they remastered it from a new film scam that has four times the resolution of the best HD TV still this movie is in for three narrow screen but it's perhaps the only narrow screen blu ray title we can say we love number four is Hitchcock's North by Northwest actually I've always thought this movie has some of the best scenes out there for a 3d version but until that happens you can enjoy the crop duster and the Mount Rushmore scenes and outstanding high def thanks to the fact that this film was shot in VistaVision which was kind of a high-def film technique of its day number three the Bridge on the River Kwai it seems we'll all be dead in the desert before they release Lawrence of Arabia on blu-ray so this other David Lean classic will have to hold you over another disc that was mastered from a 4k digital scan of a great print and I dare you not to be whistling by the end of it number two is 2001 a Space Odyssey so many sensations here you'll feel like a thief when you get it for just ten bucks on amazon you'll feel guilty for making your TV even try to render this discs amazingly deep black levels and you'll feel stupid at the end because you'll have no idea what that ending means that's quite a night out on your sofa before I get you to our number one classic film that looks incredible on blu-ray maybe you just aren't into that whole paying for content thing in which case you'll be intrigued by this list the top five pirated movies according to TorrentFreak they crunch numbers going back to like 2006 we of course encourage legal acquisition of media but apparently a couple of you don't ok the number one classic film that's gonna blow you away on blu-ray disc is Ben Hur 11 oscars the most ever for one film the most expensive film ever when it was made on the biggest set ever constructed that it was made featuring the longest film score ever composed and a nine minute chariot ricks Warner's spent a million dollars just restoring this film and if you get the ultimate collector's edition you'll also get four hours of special content that's more chuck testa matunuck than I really need for a look at cnet's full list of 40 must have blu-ray discs and more top fives like this go to top 5 cnet com I'm Brian Cooley thanks for watching you