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How good is that Alien anthology boxset, I mean come on. I got it for £13 and I feel like I'm ripping off someone, somewhere.
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feedmyleg posted:My god, you can definitely tell that this is in the beginning of digital coloring for animated films. Most of those look like what I'd consider to be bad fan-art coloring today. Despite the sharpness I actually think the upscaled version looks better because of the grain and texture. The Blu-Ray makes it look awful. Maybe it's better in motion, though. But some of those gradients are terrible. That's not grain and texture, that's MPEG-2 compression artifacts. Yes, there are some colour tweaks but nothing as comparatively extreme as, say, Pinnochio. Not a lot can be done about the 1994 digital colouring job. frumpsnake fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Oct 8, 2011 |
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Role Play McMurphy posted:Is there anything rattling around the rumor mill about either The Wire or West Wing on Blu? No word on The Wire. The West Wing seems to have bypassed Blu-Ray and moved straight to streaming (you can buy the HD versions on iTunes/Amazon/etc). Warner sucks at releasing TV shows so the chances of it getting a Blu release any time soon is not good.
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HBO have put a bunch of shows up in HD on iTunes that aren't available on Blu-Ray too (Sopranos Seasons 2-5, Six Feet Under Season 3-5). The Wire wasn't included so I doubt its coming any time soon. It was shot in 3-perf Super 35 so it's certainly doable, but The Wire was one of those HBO shows that ended up incorporating 60fps video in a few scenes. And David Simon was vehemently against 16:9 so who knows if it'd be 4:3 windowboxed or opened up like The Shield was.
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frumpsnake posted:HBO have put a bunch of shows up in HD on iTunes that aren't available on Blu-Ray too (Sopranos Seasons 2-5, Six Feet Under Season 3-5). The Wire wasn't included so I doubt its coming any time soon. quote:The Wire is shot entirely with Panavision cameras. David Insley let us know that, "These later episodes of the show are shot Super 35, 3-perf, and that saves a lot of money because that means we're shooting about three quarters of the film we used to. But we're only using the 4 x 3 part, so we're losing the edges of the 16x 9, but it's less than we were using when it was 4-perf, so (the image is) somewhere between a Super 16 image and a standard 35 (mm) image." http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/inside-hbos-the-wire It sounds like they could open it up for the earlier seasons if they wanted to but that Season 4 & 5 weren't protected for 16:9
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The "previously on the Wire..." segments on the Season 5 DVD are all in widescreen (and don't appear to be cropped, looks like they're using the full 3-perf width) so I think they kept protecting it for 16:9. I think the quote is more referring to the fact they stayed 4:3 when every other HBO show including Curb, Entourage and Six Feet Under made the switch. At times the 16:9 version of The Shield has very obvious, glaring problems, including visible cameras, lights, sets, and unsynced audio/visuals. I'd hate for that to show up on The Wire.
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The Omen Collection dropped down to $19.99 on Amazon. Not bad for four movies, if you are a fan. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...ASIN=B001ARDBWQ
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Sporadic posted:No word on The Wire. It also looks fantastic. I'm in the UK (And own the boxset) so I took a 'peek' at the HD versions and was blown away. A show that had that much work put into it needs to at least be seen in 16x9. It would be an utter shame if the show never gets released onto Blu.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Silent Running pre-order on Amazon.co.uk for £4? Yes please! For a second I thought you typed Cool Runnings and oh well.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:For a second I thought you typed Cool Runnings and oh well. I wish they'd release Cool Runnings with reference quality audio and video. Only then will I be satisfied. The ultimate Cool Runnings experience! I mean, Jamaican Bobsledders? Come on, man.
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Sporadic posted:The Omen Collection dropped down to $19.99 on Amazon. Not bad for four movies, if you are a fan. Awesome, thanks! I remember this being around $90 when it was first released. Poor packaging or not, I had to bite at the $20 price.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Silent Running pre-order on Amazon.co.uk for £4? Yes please! When they correct the price will they honour orders placed at £4?
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Amazon.ca has the LotR set for $45 today. Says it usually ships in 1-3 months. They're having some kind of daily set of deals. http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/ref=pe_171390_21124800_pe_row/?ASIN=B004HEWNBO
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Noxville posted:When they correct the price will they honour orders placed at £4? I don't know, but the price has been corrected now and I've yet to receive an email. Fingers crossed.
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Dudebro posted:Amazon.ca has the LotR set for $45 today. Says it usually ships in 1-3 months. They're having some kind of daily set of deals. And for anyone wondering, with international shipping it comes out to around $55 to the US. Also it now says 1-3 weeks. I almost pulled the trigger on this, but I'm gambling on it being even cheaper on black friday, I think I'm gonna wait it out. I might change my mind by the end of the day though.
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Mean Girls (With Footloose Movie Money!!!) is $9 on Wal-Mart.com http://www.walmart.com/ip/17013350
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Dissapointed Owl posted:How good is that Alien anthology boxset, I mean come on. Are there any added features from the DVD quadrilogy?
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Soonmot posted:Are there any added features from the DVD quadrilogy? The Digital Bits posted:As you all know, there is MUCH new content here as well, created or upgraded specifically for Blu-ray. First of all, there are the new isolated score tracks for each film. Next, in the Quadrilogy set, about 100 of director Ridley Scott's original Ridleygram sketches were inaccessible due to an authoring error. They're ALL now available here. And in fact, the Ridleygrams - and indeed ALL of the artwork, photographs, sketches and other material from the Quad - are upgraded here to full high-def, so you're going to get a better look at them than ever before. As many of you know, the original Alien³ documentary from the Quad set, Wreckage and Rage, was censored by Fox back in 2003, with some 21 minutes cut prior to release - footage detailing director David Fincher's struggles and frustrations on the set. You'll be pleased to know that ALL of that lost footage been restored, making this the most complete version of the documentary to date. On top of that, each of the four feature-length, "making of" documentaries from the Quad set have been enhanced with scores of additional Enhancement Pod featurettes - nearly 4 hours' worth of material over the whole set. This includes great interview stories and anecdotes by cast and crew members, unused outtake footage and more. There's a piece on the influence of Jodorowsky's aborted Dune project on the Alien films, a piece in which Giger describes his philosophy, a piece in which actor Jon Finch talks about how he was originally cast as Kane but couldn't play the part - just great stuff. Essentially, it's all kinds of wonderful little gems that just didn't fit well into the previous documentaries, and so had to be left on the cutting room floor, but now you finally get to enjoy them all. (You can play them all together, or select them individually from a list in the menus.) Aliens fans will delight in the fact that the long-desired "Burke Cocooned" scene is finally on this set in all its glory. (Though to be honest, I can see why it was deleted, as it's a surprisingly quick moment and disrupts the tension of the sequence in which it would have appeared.) In addition, there's a new BD-Java interactive MU-TH-UR Mode that you can access while watching the films. This does a couple things: First, you can see what's being discussed on the audio commentaries at that moment, in case you want to listen to it. You can also access a text track, called the Weyland-Yutani Datastream, which offers lots of little bits of information and trivia. Finally, it also lets you select different topics for which there may be relevant videos, photos and artwork on Disc Five and Six of the set. When you select them, the player remembers your selections, so that when you get to Discs Five and Six, you can go directly to those items if you wish. Finally, the Blu-rays feature a very much appreciated option called Disc Unbound. What this does is, once you've watched one disc in the set - with its usual start-up copyright disclaimers and warning screens - when you take that disc out and switch to another disc in the set, you'll see a Weyland-Yutani logo on the screen as you make the swap. Then, when the new disc starts up, it skips past all the warning screens and goes right into the main menu. Now, THAT'S a cool touch.
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Bunch of price drops on Amazon today Dawn Of The Dead (Remake + DVD) - $6.99 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...ASIN=B004ZJZQA6 Lost In Translation - $11.99 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...ASIN=B001AQO400 Audition: Collection Edition - $13.99 (you have to click more buying choices and selselect Amazon for some reason) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...ASIN=B002C8YSCE The Night Of The Hunter - $26.49 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...ASIN=B003ZYU3TQ
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Sporadic posted:The Night Of The Hunter - $26.49 Thanks for this. It's probably the second lowest it's ever been.
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Sporadic posted:Bunch of price drops on Amazon today Who cares about Night of the Hunter when Ernest Scared Stupid is only $4.49?! I'm so jealous of all those Criterion releases you Americans get. I hate that they just region lock it, regardless if it's requested by the rights holders.
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Has anyone else picked up the H.G. Lewis 3 pack that Something Weird just put out? The quality is pretty astonishing, and for 12 bucks it's a fantastic deal if you're into exploitation flicks. I can't wait to, pick up their blu of Basket Case now.
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melvinthemopboy3 posted:Has anyone else picked up the H.G. Lewis 3 pack that Something Weird just put out? The quality is pretty astonishing, and for 12 bucks it's a fantastic deal if you're into exploitation flicks. I can't wait to, pick up their blu of Basket Case now. I got it last week, I've only watched Blood Feast so far but it looks really great. I like that they kept it all to one disc, instead of making it a 3-disc thing and charging more for no reason.
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Daveski posted:I got it last week, I've only watched Blood Feast so far but it looks really great. I like that they kept it all to one disc, instead of making it a 3-disc thing and charging more for no reason. Any idea if it's region locked? I really want Basket Case 
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Daveski posted:I got it last week, I've only watched Blood Feast so far but it looks really great. I like that they kept it all to one disc, instead of making it a 3-disc thing and charging more for no reason. Blood Feast did look great, but I just got finished watching Two Thousand Maniacs and it's even better. It's more damaged than Blood Feast, but that only makes it better if you ask me. I'm glad they didn't clean up the prints very much, it really adds to the whole package.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Any idea if it's region locked? I really want Basket Case Region locked A according to this  quote:Image Entertainment and Something Weird Video brings 'Basket Case' to Blu-ray on a Region A locked, BD25 disc, inside a blue eco-vortex keepcase. At startup, the disc goes straight to the main menu with music and full-motion clips. http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/4714/basketcase.html
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Sporadic posted:Region locked A according to this Oh, sonuvawhore Why, I wonder. The DVD was region free, what possible reason could they have
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American History X/A History Of Violence dropped to $11.49 on Amazon. It's a two-disc set so it is basically the same as buying them separately. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...ASIN=B004NTDEXY
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Just a heads up: Tree of Life BD + DVD + Digital is on sale at Best Buy for $22.99 (regularly $29.99).
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VoodooXT posted:The Conversation drat, that looks good. I may have to treat myself and get it the first day.
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I thought it the girl in questions was robert duvall's daughter, not his wife.
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Island Nation posted:A bit quick and dirty but this should suffice to your question Thank you for posting this, I am buying this all over again 
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dreadnought posted:Just a heads up: Tree of Life BD + DVD + Digital is on sale at Best Buy for $22.99 (regularly $29.99). Do believe I will have to pick that up. Haven't seen it yet but just based on what I know I think I will enjoy it. Nice that they did the BR+DVD with this one.
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VoodooXT posted:The Conversation drat. Gene Hackman looks like a loving sex machine in this.
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VoodooXT posted:The Conversation quote:• Audio commentary with editor Walter Murch This makes me wet.
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