NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were ripped directly from the Blu-ray disc.

Well, he's a bit greener! Although dual-layered the new Universal Blu-ray (the feature fills 38.1 Gig) only exhibits more subtle increase in image quality over the new single-disc widescreen SD-DVD in the screen grabs below. It becomes much more apparent depending on the system that you are viewing it on. This is notable mostly in the colors and detail which raise up a few healthy notches. Overall the new Blu-ray gives a dimensional look that is very impressive at times. Part of the trouble with extensive use of CGI is that under the microscope of 1080P resolution it can tend to look a little 'cartoonish' (I made this same statement about Beowulf). The nature of those effects produce hazy results that even a very advanced visual update can not eliminate. I noted this especially when our Hulk is standing in the majestic vistas of the desert. The Blu-ray brings out the sky and contours of the environment with crystal clarity and our large green protagonist looks even more contrasted - not only with his color - but the variance in detail as well. I guess I'm trying to say it looks more 'fake' than on the weaker SD-DVD. This is certainly not any fault of the transfer - it's more a sign-of-the-times for this style of film production.  Now the Blu-ray looks pretty smart, but it's not totally perfect, showing some minor noise here and there. The bottom line, visually, is that it's remarkably better than the concurrent SD-DVD edition. I toggled back and forth on my system (simultaneously playing) and the difference is easily, and at times dramatically, discernable. I can't see relating any better than simply viewing the screen captures (and clickable larger resolution ones) below.

Audio-wise the new SD edition had decent 5.1 track (and DUBs in same) but this Blu-ray effectively improves upon it with its DTS-HD Lossless Master Audio 5.1 . My ears aren't great but even I could detect the improvement in certain spots. It gets more than its fair share of action as the film is rife with an excess of helicopter explosions and deep green grunts. My rear speakers got some much need exercise. The Universal Blu-ray adds choices for DUBs in 6 other languages and a massive 41 subtitles options! (one issue with this is they are not selectable from the Main menu so you must toggle through them to get - or remove - your desired option - it's a bit of a pain.)

In terms of supplements the single-disc widescreen SD-DVD has some of the extras and the commentary from the older 2-disc edition while the Blu-ray appears to have all of them. Ang Lee is a good commentarist and I appreciate him getting involved but this is a fairly long super-hero 'joint' and it often feels like the information is being stretched to the film's completion and limitations. Still, I'd much rather have it than not have it. The other features feel a bit filler too although I liked the, brief, one on Ang Lee himself (lots of glad-handing) and the 17-minute Making of...  but the deleted scenes didn't do much for my appreciation of the film. Bottom line for Blu-ray fans is the inclusion of the U-Control Picture-in-Picture accessible via the color buttons of your remote. It has cast and crew interviews and behind-the-scenes footage running while you can still see the film in the background.