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Egbert Souse posted:Kino Lorber's spring sale starts March 30 waiting on face/off, night of the hunter, and caligari all may or TBD 
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Wait, so this new Criterion release of Inland Empire is a Blu-Ray, not UHD? Despite being a 4K restoration? I'm looking on the official Criterion site and there's no mention of a UHD, which seems odd to me since Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway both got UHD releases from Criterion.
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Mar 21, 2023 19:43
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The movie was mostly shot in standard definition digital video. A 4K really wouldn't offer any real benefit since there's no additional detail to get. I doubt HDR would do much either.
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Mar 21, 2023 20:03
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Cemetry Gator posted:The movie was mostly shot in standard definition digital video. A 4K really wouldn't offer any real benefit since there's no additional detail to get. I doubt HDR would do much either.
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Mar 21, 2023 20:24
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I believe they initially announced a UHD and then canceled it. Am I crazy? Looks like Blu-Ray.com may just have mislabeled their entry: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Inland-Empire-4K-Blu-ray/315093/#News The announcement doesn't call out a UHD.
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Mar 21, 2023 20:27
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I thought they did something crazy like SD -> UHD -> HD. Supposedly Lynch liked the resulting effect
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 Quantum of Phallus posted:$47 for one 4K It's either buy now at $47 or wait until it goes out of stock and lists on eBay for $94. Christ, today is not a good day for my credit card.
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Mar 21, 2023 21:24
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Dang, when did Criterion get Cooley High? I love that movie.
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Nightmare Cinema posted:
The a24 collector's editions don't seem to be limited. You can still buy all of them though they did raise the price point to $47 cc flash sale got me, ordered baron 4k and colors 4k zer0spunk fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Mar 21, 2023 |
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Mar 21, 2023 22:19
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Nightmare Cinema posted:
Just  if your credit cards aren't maxed out
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Mar 21, 2023 22:59
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My local Best Buy has had a pretty dramatic turnaround in the past few months when it comes to physical media. They now get almost every single Shout Factory and Criterion release, plus sometimes they get some Arrow stuff too. Overall the volume of the physical media section hasn't grown, but they're stocking more stuff that I'm interested in rather than just filling up the shelves with 100 copies of Spiderman or whatever.
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Mar 22, 2023 15:42
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B&N still does their 50% off Criterion sale once a year, right? The amount to unlock free shipping on Criterion’s site is pretty high.
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david_a posted:B&N still does their 50% off Criterion sale once a year, right? The amount to unlock free shipping on Criterion’s site is pretty high. Twice a year. Last year it was July and November, I think? The site says $75 or more for free shipping, but it gave me free shipping at around $60. If you use discount codes, I think those still count towards your "total", so you can qualify for free shipping still. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Mar 22, 2023 |
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Mar 22, 2023 15:56
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I also got the free shipping during Criterion’s flash sale at around $60 which surprised me
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Mar 22, 2023 16:11
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That wasn’t kicking in for me and I was at like $73
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I did not buy anything during the Criterion sale. now pray for me, VinSyn starts Friday.
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Mar 22, 2023 18:49
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From Beyond 4k was my first Vinegar Syndrome purchase. What's the rundown on how they handle their sales? Is it a flat 50% off like Criterion does? Is it only on select titles? I was extremely impressed with that From Beyond release and I'd be into buying more from them but probably not at full price in most cases.
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Mar 22, 2023 19:00
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It's a pretty good sale price you get stuff for. Only things excluded are usually the Partner titles since those have their own sale later on in the year, but otherwise everything besides the newly announced releases get the sale. So definitely like make a list now of what you want because they'll pull the site down tomorrow to get it ready for the onslaught (tho its gotten better than it was in the past, website wise) of purchases and then the wait for your shipping notification starts. Usually takes a week+ depending on how close you are to their main hub.
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Basebf555 posted:From Beyond 4k was my first Vinegar Syndrome purchase. That was the first one I’ve ever bought from them not on sale. It stung a bit but I really wanted to screen it for my weekly movie night crew and I don’t regret it considering how quickly it sold out. I don’t think it ever even hit a sale before selling out
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Mar 22, 2023 19:11
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It's not consistent but more like $5-10 off everything.
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Mar 22, 2023 19:13
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tonedef131 posted:That was the first one I’ve ever bought from them not on sale. It stung a bit but I really wanted to screen it for my weekly movie night crew and I don’t regret it considering how quickly it sold out. I don’t think it ever even hit a sale before selling out I'm not usually one to obsess over slip covers but the From Beyond slipcover is so nice. I was running my finger up and down the lettering on the spine like it was Barbara Crampton and I was Dr. Pretorious.
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Mar 22, 2023 19:13
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VS also has a function on the site that lets you add titles to a Want or Have list, which is convenient during sales.
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Basebf555 posted:I'm not usually one to obsess over slip covers but the From Beyond slipcover is so nice. I was running my finger up and down the lettering on the spine like it was Barbara Crampton and I was Dr. Pretorious. I felt this way about dead heat.
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Mar 22, 2023 19:27
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The Cloak & Dagger and Roadhouse sets are so insanely nice for the movies that they are.
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Mar 22, 2023 19:31
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Lol yeah the Roadhouse one is super extra, but I like it. VS always goes overboard on their outer packaging. That TCM2 box and slipcover are choice.
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Rageaholic posted:Wait, so this new Criterion release of Inland Empire is a Blu-Ray, not UHD? Despite being a 4K restoration? I'm looking on the official Criterion site and there's no mention of a UHD, which seems odd to me since Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway both got UHD releases from Criterion. It's 4K for DCP purposes, but I can't fathom a single reason why a UHD would make sense. Even expanded color space and HDR probably mean nothing for something shot on MiniDV. However, Blu-ray makes total sense between it allowing for a vastly better encode and the fact the new restoration is probably the best I've ever seen a MiniDV origin film look. They probably also acknowledge how unlikely the UHD would sell well despite it being Lynch For that matter, Wall-E is the only UHD they've released out of 36 that was upscaled rather than native 4K.
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Just to clarify, the event on Friday is NOT a sale. This is just a pre-sale event for the next VSU title and the other Halfway to Black Friday title. Three of the titles will be revealed and the other two will be a mystery until the sale. The actual sale should happen around Memorial Day weekend in late May. These titles should be discounted, but nothing else will be on sale.Vinegar Syndrome posted:
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Egbert Souse posted:For that matter, Wall-E is the only UHD they've released out of 36 that was upscaled rather than native 4K. I wonder if they even have the elements available to make it native 4K. I would kill for that, just a 1:1 4K “print” of Wall-E. I think it’s probably Pixar’s overall best. Those first 30 minutes are pretty special.
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Boywhiz88 posted:I wonder if they even have the elements available to make it native 4K. I would kill for that, just a 1:1 4K “print” of Wall-E. I think it’s probably Pixar’s overall best. Those first 30 minutes are pretty special. I really doubt it, for whatever reason 2k was the standard for outputting computer animation until 201X.
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Egbert Souse posted:It's 4K for DCP purposes, but I can't fathom a single reason why a UHD would make sense. Even expanded color space and HDR probably mean nothing for something shot on MiniDV. However, Blu-ray makes total sense between it allowing for a vastly better encode and the fact the new restoration is probably the best I've ever seen a MiniDV origin film look. They probably also acknowledge how unlikely the UHD would sell well despite it being Lynch Given the limitations of INLAND’s source material, even with the Lynch-approved machine learning upsampling/reconstruction applied to bring detail into the MiniDV footage, I really don’t even know if I’m missing out on much with my European import Blu predating the restoration. Have there been comparisons posted online?
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Am I crazy for thinking Pixar re-rendered ToyStory to be in high definition? Because they should do that for Wall-E
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FilthyImp posted:Am I crazy for thinking Pixar re-rendered ToyStory to be in high definition? They did - the original Toy Story was rendered at a resolution somewhere in the neighborhood of 720p, which was staggering in 1995 but whose limits were thrown into stark relief on Blu-ray. There’s at least one really interesting write-up detailing their process, but the gist of it was that they had to take the original Toy Story data and projects and import them into a newer but still behind the curve version of RenderMan, then backported newer functionality to it and re-rendered the original scenes and assets on their current server farm. You can still see some jaggy aliasing at the edges of Rex’s scales, which are literally the limits of detail and precision in those source assets, but the improvement is huge. WALL-E would probably be a less dramatic undertaking to make current. Thing is, I really don’t know how much extra detail would be extracted in each scene by taking the original assets and quadrupling the render resolution. Improvements would likely be marginal if they could be noticed at all, unless you were watching on a gently caress-off gigantic screen or theater. It would be like re-compositing all of THE LORD OF THE RINGS at 4K versus the upsampled 2K we have. Hasturtium fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Mar 23, 2023 |
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Liar Lyre posted:Just to clarify, the event on Friday is NOT a sale. This is just a pre-sale event for the next VSU title and the other Halfway to Black Friday title. Three of the titles will be revealed and the other two will be a mystery until the sale. The actual sale should happen around Memorial Day weekend in late May. These titles should be discounted, but nothing else will be on sale. 
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David Lynch drew a flowchart to help answer goons questions about the INLAND EMPIRE restoration:
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Funnily enough I had the same camera used for Inland Empire and have run some of the clips through Topaz AI and can totally see why this was the process. It’s really very good at what it does, the input/output differences are quite ridiculous. I just don’t really have the hardware for it, it’s slow as hell on my regular Mac.
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Franchescanado posted:David Lynch drew a flowchart to help answer goons questions about the INLAND EMPIRE restoration: should have just done it on iPhone instead of wasting all this time
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Quantum of Phallus posted:should have just done it on iPhone instead of wasting all this time
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If anybody wants another copy of Maximum Overdrive https://twitter.com/dawnofthediscs/status/1638916379238645762
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Chris James 2 posted:If anybody wants another copy of Maximum Overdrive 
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