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Egbert Souse posted:Well, I guess I'm going to cancel Spartacus until it goes to to under $10. It looks exactly like the HD-DVD captures. Robert Harris to Universal: "Stop transferring. Stop mastering. Stop distribution." http://www.hometheaterforum.com/forum/thread/300533/a-few-words-about-elizabeth-in-blu-ray quote:Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth was a quality film when it arrived in 1998.
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# ? May 12, 2010 16:42 |
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Does anyone know the status of The Great Escape on Blu-Ray? Has there been any discussion of a release for it?
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# ? May 12, 2010 16:51 |
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I don't get it, Universal has had some of the best DVD transfers out there. Even their DVD of American Graffiti from 1998 is flawless. Maybe this is fallout from the vault fire from a few years ago? Perhaps they lost the original unfiltered HD transfers and only have the processed masters.
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# ? May 12, 2010 17:40 |
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Egbert Souse posted:Maybe this is fallout from the vault fire from a few years ago? Perhaps they lost the original unfiltered HD transfers and only have the processed masters. Insofar as Spartacus is concerned, this is not the case. Robert Harris shared his thoughts: quote:Twenty years ago, under the aegis of Universal’s Tom Pollack, and with the cooperation and support of both Kirk Douglas and Stanley Kubrick, we spent a year reconstructing and restoring Spartacus from extant film elements. The process was difficult, tedious, and expensive. Work was performed virtually on a shot by shot basis.
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# ? May 12, 2010 21:38 |
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On the Saving Private Ryan issue: you can either return your disc to the retailer, or call 888-370-8621 for exchange details. Fixed discs should be in stores by next Tuesday. I like how they'll recall SPR over a teeny-tiny little sync issue but Gladiator has been on store shelves for months when the whole movie is hosed. doctor thodt fucked around with this message at 23:09 on May 12, 2010 |
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doctor thodt posted:On the Saving Private Ryan issue: you can either return your disc to the retailer, or call 888-370-8621 for exchange details. Fixed discs should be in stores by next Tuesday. Oh god what's wrong with Gladiator? I didn't even realize it had issues.
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# ? May 12, 2010 23:29 |
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BitterAvatar posted:Oh god what's wrong with Gladiator? I didn't even realize it had issues. It's badly written.
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# ? May 12, 2010 23:33 |
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BitterAvatar posted:Oh god what's wrong with Gladiator? I didn't even realize it had issues.
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# ? May 12, 2010 23:33 |
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Stop toying with my emotions!
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# ? May 12, 2010 23:38 |
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BitterAvatar posted:Stop toying with my emotions!
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# ? May 12, 2010 23:39 |
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Wait, are they loving releasing The Pacific in parts?!
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# ? May 12, 2010 23:45 |
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BitterAvatar posted:Oh god what's wrong with Gladiator? I didn't even realize it had issues. The regular cut and extended cut scenes come from different masters, and the extended cut scenes are of a noticably different, better quality. The regular cut scenes are full of DNR and other modifications, which makes it look waxy and odd at times. Granted, I probably wouldn't have noticed this unless the fine folks at AVSForums sperged out about it, but here we are...
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# ? May 12, 2010 23:53 |
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BitterAvatar posted:Oh god what's wrong with Gladiator? I didn't even realize it had issues. Rampant historical inaccuracies. Also, Russell Crowe. So what do I do about Saving Private Ryan if I lost my receipt?
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# ? May 13, 2010 00:00 |
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doctor thodt posted:888-370-8621
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# ? May 13, 2010 00:59 |
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I should send in the netflix copy of Saving Private Ryan I got today for replacement. Fail. RAH
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# ? May 13, 2010 01:04 |
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Wow, my new Vaio displays BluRay beautifully. It's almost too bright... probably need to mess with the settings. It was delivered to my office (UPS usually doesn't come near my place regularly) and my coworkers were impressed with how nice The General looked. And it's only a 1600x900 res screen. But it's preinstalled with WinDVD, which happens to not have any new updates that allow for Avatar to play. The only option is to buy a $40 upgrade. Are there any free BluRay programs or am I stuck with buying software to play one title? VLC doesn't seem to have codecs yet.
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# ? May 13, 2010 02:24 |
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Egbert Souse posted:Are there any free BluRay programs or am I stuck with buying software to play one title? VLC doesn't seem to have codecs yet. VLC will play them if you can decrypt them (AnyDVD HD, MakeMKV, etc.) but it's a buggy piece of poo poo with content that large. Seeking tends to crash it.
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# ? May 13, 2010 03:07 |
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Captain Charisma posted:Wait, are they loving releasing The Pacific in parts?! Wait, you mean the various discs are being split up? Link? Actually I think that'd be pretty cool if they only released Sledge's arc, seeing that that's the good part.
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# ? May 13, 2010 04:23 |
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uncle jimbo posted:Wait, you mean the various discs are being split up? Link?
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# ? May 13, 2010 04:25 |
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Egbert Souse posted:Wow, my new Vaio displays BluRay beautifully. It's almost too bright... probably need to mess with the settings. It was delivered to my office (UPS usually doesn't come near my place regularly) and my coworkers were impressed with how nice The General looked. And it's only a 1600x900 res screen. strwrsxprt was right on the money. I would suggest Arcsoft (the trial first) even though they basically told me to go gently caress myself when I told them that my import HD-DVDs crashed their player. http://www.arcsoft.com/estore/software_title.asp?ProductCode=TMT3P ARC404P20 will take 20% off. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 05:33 on May 13, 2010 |
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Anyone know why Netflix takes a bit to get some Blu Rays? Not the WB or Fox discs, I know about that, but I want to get Django and they don't even have a release date. It took them forever to get Vivre Se Vie as well. Also, does anyone have a link to the Master of Cinema Blu Ray sale page?
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# ? May 13, 2010 05:36 |
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The Lucas posted:Anyone know why Netflix takes a bit to get some Blu Rays? Not the WB or Fox discs, I know about that, but I want to get Django and they don't even have a release date. It took them forever to get Vivre Se Vie as well. Edit: Way too late to be reading and posting, your post makes it clear you know about the time limit they signed with a few majors. I dunno, sorry.
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# ? May 13, 2010 08:51 |
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The Lucas posted:Anyone know why Netflix takes a bit to get some Blu Rays? Not the WB or Fox discs, I know about that, but I want to get Django and they don't even have a release date. It took them forever to get Vivre Se Vie as well. I'm getting increasingly irritated that I pay for a Blu-Ray membership and they don't have the breadth of coverage they have when it comes to DVDs.
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# ? May 13, 2010 09:38 |
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As everyone feared, Storaro got his greasy mitts on Apocalypse Now for the new HD remaster, loving with the aspect ratio because clearly "The Last Supper" should be the guideline for all movies or something.Vittorio Storaro posted:Recently I did again a Video transfer of "APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX" and I wrote the following letter to the Distributor of the DVD.
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# ? May 13, 2010 17:43 |
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FitFortDanga posted:As everyone feared, Storaro got his greasy mitts on Apocalypse Now for the new HD remaster, loving with the aspect ratio because clearly "The Last Supper" should be the guideline for all movies or something.
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# ? May 13, 2010 17:47 |
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FitFortDanga posted:As everyone feared, Storaro got his greasy mitts on Apocalypse Now for the new HD remaster, loving with the aspect ratio because clearly "The Last Supper" should be the guideline for all movies or something. If I were a DVD distributor and got a letter half typed in CAPS, I'd have a hard time taking it seriously even if it is from an Oscar winning cinematographer. Also, that big paragraph is kind of contradictory, complaining about destroying the composition by changing it to suit 1.78:1 and then arguing that cutting to suit 2:1 is an improvement. Also the fact that he's done this before means it's not really an aesthetic choice based on the film itself, as he tries to imply, but rather some bizarre self imposed restriction.
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# ? May 13, 2010 18:04 |
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The Lucas posted:Anyone know why Netflix takes a bit to get some Blu Rays? Not the WB or Fox discs, I know about that, but I want to get Django and they don't even have a release date. It took them forever to get Vivre Se Vie as well. The situation with recent Criterions is a little mysterious though - perhaps they were in the midst of a renegotiation? I notice Fritz Lang's "M" just got thrown onto the schedule for this coming Tuesday, so they still seem to be coming in, albeit late. You can definitely find some glaring gaps in the coverage if you look hard enough - especially with Warner/New Line: Any Given Sunday, L.A. Confidential, Song Remains the Same, Neverending Story, Bakshi's Lord of the Rings, Horton/Grinch/Charlie Brown TV specials, Nightmare on Elm Street, all the double-feature discs, etc. Most of the other major and major-minor studio catalogs, however, seem fairly complete as far as I can tell with only a few missing titles here and there.
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FitFortDanga posted:As everyone feared, Storaro got his greasy mitts on Apocalypse Now for the new HD remaster, loving with the aspect ratio because clearly "The Last Supper" should be the guideline for all movies or something. Wow, that's incredibly bizarre. Is there even anything else out there, dvd, blu-ray, whatever, that has an aspect ratio of 2:1? That seems so random.
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qbert posted:Wow, that's incredibly bizarre. Is there even anything else out there, dvd, blu-ray, whatever, that has an aspect ratio of 2:1? Yeah... The Last Emperor, thanks to Storaro.
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# ? May 13, 2010 18:34 |
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Does this mean he'll be cropping the sides off?
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# ? May 13, 2010 20:15 |
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For some reason the theatrical cut of Apocalypse Now isn't on blu-ray. That is my preferred version of the film.
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FitFortDanga posted:As everyone feared, Storaro got his greasy mitts on Apocalypse Now for the new HD remaster, loving with the aspect ratio because clearly "The Last Supper" should be the guideline for all movies or something. Storaro is a loving tool. You can read his manifesto on Univision here. http://www.cinematography.net/Files/univision.pdf quote:Recently, any movie - no matter how big or small, successfull or not - will, after a very short life on the big screen, have a much longer life on an electronic screen. Today, the Answer Print is made for both of these two different media. The Cinematographer's work ends after having released an Interpositive for theatrical distribution, and a Digital Master for video distribution. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 20:46 on May 13, 2010 |
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He comes off like a conspiracy theorist.
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# ? May 13, 2010 20:47 |
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This is like a loving communist nightmare. OUR GREAT LEADER: IN UNIVISSSIIIOOOONNNNN!!!
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# ? May 13, 2010 20:48 |
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Why is it so hard for him to understand that a 1.78:1 screen can accommodate more than one aspect ratio? And why is someone screaming about forced aspect ratios and unnecessary changes suggesting as a solution yet another aspect ratio that should become the standard for everything?
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# ? May 13, 2010 20:53 |
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:Why is it so hard for him to understand that a 1.78:1 screen can accommodate more than one aspect ratio? And why is someone screaming about forced aspect ratios and unnecessary changes suggesting as a solution yet another aspect ratio that should become the standard for everything?
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# ? May 13, 2010 21:02 |
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800+ Blu-Rays and I'm just now finding out that Vanishing Point has already been on Blu-Ray for over a year
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# ? May 14, 2010 00:10 |
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I don't get why both formats cannot be included so that everyone is happy. The idea of cropping 2.35:1 films to 2:1 can be good... you gain some definition at the cost of relatively minor reframing. If it's supervised by the cinematographer and director, I feel it's in safe hands and will be handled as good as possible. Still, why not just crop to 2.20:1 like the 70mm prints? Monitors with overscan would crop it further.
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# ? May 14, 2010 01:09 |
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doctor thodt posted:800+ Blu-Rays and I'm just now finding out that Vanishing Point has already been on Blu-Ray for over a year
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Egbert Souse posted:Wow, my new Vaio displays BluRay beautifully. It's almost too bright... probably need to mess with the settings. It was delivered to my office (UPS usually doesn't come near my place regularly) and my coworkers were impressed with how nice The General looked. And it's only a 1600x900 res screen. I'm in the same kind of boat as you with my VAIO. I just ended up getting PowerDVD, works great. Another thing, if for any reason you format your computer, back up the preinstalled Bu-Ray software. I forgot to when I upgraded to Windows 7 and it took me a while to scrounge up the money for another player, since Sony doesn't offer it for reinstall off their web site.
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