300 is the worst movie ever to ship free with a HD player. I liked the movie itself OK but it was filmed with an inherent graininess that effectively adds to the overall ambiance, but makes it very disappointing if you wanted to use this as a movie to show off HD.
Close ups of things like Helmets and swords are very sharp but the picture as a whole looks like when they colorize old black and white films, with some extra pastel added.
One thing I do like in the movie though is the artistic scene choreography. You can take almost any second of the movie, hit pause, and it looks like an over dramatized, purposefully, posed painting of some epic moment.
Back to topic though, HD Ver. Free = OK, but don't bother paying 10 bucks extra for for a HD version. You'll get the same grainy effect in a regular DVD.
