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doctor thodt posted:In that interview he seems really excited about how the new look of the movie turned out. I'll withhold judgment until some screenshots pop up. I don't trust him. He talks about bringing in the same colorist that worked on Avatar with him and "it was shot on a high speed negative, a new negative that didn't pan out too well and got replaced the following year so it was pretty grainy...we got rid of all the grain and it's sharper and clearer and more beautiful than it's ever looked". That doesn't sound good at all. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Aug 17, 2010 |
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It's probably Lowry Digital... they processed Avatar for IMAX. If they worked on Aliens, there's little to worry about. They have the best noise reduction system in the world.
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Aug 17, 2010 01:08
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I am going to kill myself metaphorically if Cameron ruined Aliens. That is my favorite movie.
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Here's what he said for the people who don't feel like watching the video.quote:Interviewer: Do you have anything to do with the new Aliens stuff they are putting out? Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Aug 17, 2010 |
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What purchasing decisions do fellow UKers make who have region free players? (My setup is HTPC with AnyDVD HD). Are most UK discs pretty much the same as US ones now (although sometimes with PAL extras? I'm kinda used to it now, but it's not really preferable) or is it worth going for import the majority of the time? BBFC stickers are awful, but let's be honest... most Blu-Ray art is also terrible and covered in quotes and other poo poo that doesn't make one iota difference to my purchasing decision. Any particular favourite sites to get good prices/speed/lack of customs heat from? I used to use PlayUSA a lot but their site is still lacking a good separation of Blu-Ray and it's quite annoying. Might have to skim SA Mart for any UK people with collections for sale... EL BROMANCE fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Aug 17, 2010 |
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Aug 17, 2010 01:14
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Huh, so it sounds like only the special edition has been meddled with, or am I misreading that?
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Captain Charisma posted:I am going to kill myself metaphorically if Cameron ruined Aliens. That is my favorite movie. On one hand, Aliens really was grainy as hell, and if that were improved... On the the other hand... 
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The thing is, that grain is there. Aliens is, as you say, grainy. You take out the grain, it's not like there's film underneath it they can get to magically somehow. If you had something that did nothing but literally remove grain, there'd be perpetual streaks of empty space from where grain used to be. So grain removal also involves replacing the grain with something artificial that tries to match its surroundings as closely as possible but as we all know the state of the art loving sucks and anyway the whole problem is that the grain is part of the film. It's hard to come up with any coherent analogies, it's just part of the picture. To make an HD master you want a really detailed transfer that takes advantage of the expanded bandwidth and improved compression algorithms we have now. Removing details on purpose like that only looks passingly good when done subtly, and looks awful when done to a huge degree. See Predator: Ultimate Hunter edition for the worst example I've ever personally seen.
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Egbert Souse posted:It's probably Lowry Digital... they processed Avatar for IMAX. If they worked on Aliens, there's little to worry about. They have the best noise reduction system in the world. Lowry Digital did the Terminator 2 Skynet Edition for Lionsgate, no?
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This latest Star Wars announcement shows me the wisdom of not giving a poo poo about that franchise anymore. Oh well.
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Just ignore the few minutes of stupid added poo poo and the original films are still as exciting and great as they were 20+ years ago.
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What the hell is happening with Fantasia? Is that still coming out this year? I can't find any info about it.
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I think it's still supposed to be coming in December. You can already pre-order it in certain territories, e.g. Germany. 
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I just want to know if Fantasia will have the original Deems Taylor narration intact and none of the ugly frame blowups in the Pastoral segment to hide a black centaur.
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Egbert Souse posted:and none of the ugly frame blowups in the Pastoral segment to hide a black centaur. Um good luck with that. Walt himself wanted that change, so I don't see any chance of a reversal.
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For those who bought The Dark Knight with the Bat Pod case, is there any place that sells normal Blu Dark Knight cases for shelf display?
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Just ignore the few minutes of stupid added poo poo and the original films are still as exciting and great as they were 20+ years ago. Except that A) These scenes all look horrible and stick out like a sore thumb and B) They hosed with a lot of existing scenes. I'm not saying its impossible to watch, but I wont be buying/watching it because its a matter of principle. Wanting the actual original films minus horrible 90s CG meddling isn't an egregious request.
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In case anybody missed it, Dexter Season 1-3 Blu-Ray bundle is today's Amazon Deal Of The Day. $69.99 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0029XZODO?ie=UTF8&tag=evdaisafi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0029XZODO MANIFEST DESTINY posted:Except that A) These scenes all look horrible and stick out like a sore thumb and B) They hosed with a lot of existing scenes. I'm not saying its impossible to watch, but I wont be buying/watching it because its a matter of principle. Wanting the actual original films minus horrible 90s CG meddling isn't an egregious request. I still wish he would have left this in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaXgK5HRBjk
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Neo_Reloaded posted:Um good luck with that. Walt himself wanted that change, so I don't see any chance of a reversal. It's debated on that, considering the first re-release with the changes was after his death and simply jump-cut out the offending footage. There was also a mid-1960s Disneyland episode that had the entire Pastoral segment uncut. Disney can at least task their animation department to digitally re-animate the character to less offensive instead of making the image quality turn to poo poo by cropping the frame. The 2000 DVD's alterations were probably a last minute decision since the version history notes on the Legacy supplement DVD actually mentions the Pastoral edits on the 1967-1990 versions and NOT being made to the 2000 version. The touch-ups are amateurish at best (you can see mattes wiggling on a few shots and one shot looks like they used clone stamp in Photoshop).
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Egbert Souse posted:It's debated on that, considering the first re-release with the changes was after his death and simply jump-cut out the offending footage. There was also a mid-1960s Disneyland episode that had the entire Pastoral segment uncut. Disney can at least task their animation department to digitally re-animate the character to less offensive instead of making the image quality turn to poo poo by cropping the frame. I'm not saying you're wrong for wanting it uncut, or wrong for wanting a better job disguising it - I just don't think it's likely. It'll most likely be how it was on the last DVD.
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fenix down posted:Serenity definitely, Firefly no unless it's on sale. Gonna agree with this. I wouldn't pay $50 for Firefly, but my local used store always has a copy of the series on Blu-ray for $29 and regularly have sales that make it cheaper than that. It's worth that just to cut down on the number of discs, and there is a definite picture and sound improvement. I held out for the longest time because of the issue with the special effects being low def renders, but it's not bad, they just look obviously soft. Sporadic posted:In case anybody missed it, Dexter Season 1-3 Blu-Ray bundle is today's Amazon Deal Of The Day. I just picked these up myself (used, for not much less than that) and if you like the show, the blu-rays are worth every penny. Top notch picture and sound. You can count Dexter's whiskers in close up shots.
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doctor thodt posted:The UK Blu-Ray of Picnic at Hanging Rock is jaw-dropping. Dr. Svet at Blu-Ray.com said it's "a prime contender for a Blu-ray release of the year." Review here. Yah, just got this today it's a great Bluray. Picture quality is excellent, lot of features including a making of that's longer than the film, and the film (which I hadn't seen before) is amazing.
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Ein Bear posted:I kind of want to see the prequels in HD... I'm morbidly curious to see how lovely all that CGI will look. I have a feeling Episode One will look kind of spectacular in HD. The real sets make that film look good, despite what you may feel about story/plot. As for the other two, it's sort of a crap shoot. Episode Two looks so loving dated now. Three is pretty close to dated as well.
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royalejest posted:For those who bought The Dark Knight with the Bat Pod case, is there any place that sells normal Blu Dark Knight cases for shelf display? Did you keep the cardboard case the Bat Pod came in? I'd just use that, personally. Otherwise, I think your only other choice is to buy a generic empty Blu-Ray case (which a few specialty sites sell, but always seem to be sold out of - just use eBay). You can always print Blu-Ray sleeves yourself. I dig this one, myself: 
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Its a real shame that the person who created that doesn't allow downloads because some of his custom covers are excellent. http://gallery.me.com/graphicman.yyc
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Death's Head posted:Its a real shame that the person who created that doesn't allow downloads because some of his custom covers are excellent. Hah, that's the crazed rear end in a top hat who redid all of his cases so the spines would all match and the text would line up.
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Crackbone posted:Hah, that's the crazed rear end in a top hat who redid all of his cases so the spines would all match and the text would line up. The fact that he's already made a cover for the godawful-looking Alpha & Omega is more than enough evidence that he's a crazed rear end in a top hat.
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WB has added TV shows to their DVD2Blu program. I'm gonna hang on to my Deadwood set now just in case. http://www.dvd2blu.com/ The Simpsons Season 13 reviewed Lost Season 6 reviewed Ajami reviewed x2
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doctor thodt posted:The Simpsons Season 13 reviewed
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Blodskur posted:What, no boob screengrab? Well, he did his best: 
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Death's Head posted:Its a real shame that the person who created that doesn't allow downloads because some of his custom covers are excellent. I'm not a hundred percent sure on this, but I believe that on the bluray.com forums people were saying there is a site where that guy and some others upload the custom covers, and you just buy tokens(?) from the site and then different covers cost a different amount to download for printing. I'm like 90% sure that's what he said but I don't remember seeing a link or anything to the site. Could always PM him on bluray.com
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I saw that site, you can easily find the sites where you can get his work just by googling for his username - bpmford. I can understand why he has removed general access to his covers because they get plastered across custom cover sites where you have to donate to download them. If other people are making money from his work then he should too. His requirements for sending them via PM are being a member of Blu-Ray.com for over 6 months and being a friend or a friend of a friend.
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Just wanted to add that the Best Buy in my area (Boise, ID) stocks generic Blu-Ray cases in packs of 10, I believe. So bigger cities would too, I imagine.
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Simpsons S13 actually looks pretty good. Too bad they started when the "hey we're just gonna make a lovely show from now on" ball had long since started rolling
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Death's Head posted:I saw that site, you can easily find the sites where you can get his work just by googling for his username - bpmford. I can understand why he has removed general access to his covers because they get plastered across custom cover sites where you have to donate to download them. If other people are making money from his work then he should too. His requirements for sending them via PM are being a member of Blu-Ray.com for over 6 months and being a friend or a friend of a friend. I have seen him around on the forums there but don't really send anyone friend request. I'm sure he probably doesn't approve all of them. I like to have nice looking covers on blurays but I don't ever really see myself downloading custom covers and switching them all out. Too much work for me, that's valuable time I can spend watching the movies.
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People are beginning to receive their Gladiator replacement discs by mail. Sent mine in a few weeks ago so hopefully it'll be turning up any day now. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang will be released November 2. Anchorman details: quote:Full details have been revealed for Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, which, as previously reported (see blu-ray.com, July 5), will be released on Blu-ray on August 31 as a Best Buy exclusive. This two-disc Rich Mahogany Edition will include 50 minutes of new special features, a Many Months of Burgundy book and 12 collectible trading cards.
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Glad to see Wake Up Ron Burgundy on the special features list.
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Captain Charisma posted:Simpsons S13 actually looks pretty good. Too bad they started when the "hey we're just gonna make a lovely show from now on" ball had long since started rolling Where's my King of the Hill blu rays  ?
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doctor thodt posted:People are beginning to receive their Gladiator replacement discs by mail. Sent mine in a few weeks ago so hopefully it'll be turning up any day now. I had forgotten I even sent mine in, hopefully I'll be getting it back soon as well.
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doctor thodt posted:WB has added TV shows to their DVD2Blu program. I'm gonna hang on to my Deadwood set now just in case. I really wish this was offered in Canada.
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