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frumpsnake posted:It's definitely an upgrade, but it's not great given the amount of 16mm footage and what appears to be an older scan. They're still using the 16:9 crop? I really hope the Criterion rumors are true...
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What's the story on this film? It was presented 16:9 in theaters, but there's a 4:3 open matte?
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Basically yes, but not only is the open-matte version considered to have better framing, but "Director's Premium Edition" DVDs were released using the open-matte transfer and each personally signed by the director, so you'd presume it has his blessing as well. http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompare2/koyaanisqatsi.htm The only shot I could find to match is from what appears to be a pirate 720p re-encode, but it demonstrates the jump over the open-matte DVD, which is already miles ahead of the MGM. 
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You think the Trek prices are bad now, when they were first released on DVD the MSRPs were well over $100 per season- and this continued until well after other TV shows were having complete seasons for $60 or lower. Paramount was late to the DVD game in general and has lagged a little ever since. At least now there's an excuse. (On a similar note, whoever controls the rights to The Avengers- the British series not the Marvel thingy- has apparently been screwing up since time immemorial. The Emma Peel Megaset was well received, but it was still way too huge for 51 episodes, and since then they've all gone out of print. No sign of a Blu-Ray release, you can't find them on streaming anywhere, etc. I know the stars had really good contracts but it can't be that expensive to release it somehow.)
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Just watched Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics On Demand. While it's a decent documentary, I was somewhat bothered by the fact that WB apparently has gorgeous HD masters of the Fleischer Superman cartoons and the Linda Carter Wonder Woman series, yet DVDs are all we've been given. Hell, even the documentary itself isn't available on Blu. You don't want to know how much I'll pay for HD Superman cartoons, WB. Take my money 
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Hatter106 posted:Just watched Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics On Demand. While it's a decent documentary, I was somewhat bothered by the fact that WB apparently has gorgeous HD masters of the Fleischer Superman cartoons and the Linda Carter Wonder Woman series, yet DVDs are all we've been given. Hell, even the documentary itself isn't available on Blu. Aren't the cartoons in high def in the Superman Anthology?
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Hatter106 posted:Just watched Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics On Demand. While it's a decent documentary, I was somewhat bothered by the fact that WB apparently has gorgeous HD masters of the Fleischer Superman cartoons and the Linda Carter Wonder Woman series, yet DVDs are all we've been given. Hell, even the documentary itself isn't available on Blu. Normally I'd be inclined to think that they're not doing it because it's a niche market thing. But this is loving Superman, it practically sells itself.
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Island Nation posted:Aren't the cartoons in high def in the Superman Anthology? Can someone who has this set confirm? I know that the trend with a lot of BD box sets is to have all special features on DVD rather than BD... Even with the Alien Anthology, the special features were on BD discs but still only standard-def.
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Hatter106 posted:Can someone who has this set confirm? I don't have it but I've read reviews and from everything I've seen, the cartoons are in SD.
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Hatter106 posted:Can someone who has this set confirm? I have the set and they are on BD but they are definitely in SD. But they're the best SD copies I've seen of them. I love the Fleischer Superman cartoons. In my opinion they're among the best animation ever produced. And if it's possible to have them HD then they drat well should be released in HD.
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Deadpool posted:I have the set and they are on BD but they are definitely in SD. I'll go sit in the corner now. Sorry
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The dumb part is that Warner remastered the cartoons in HD with the same processes as the color Looney tunes. I guess they didn't want to take up as much disc space or holding over for a Blu set. By the way, The Artist has been re-scheduled for June 26th in Region A.
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Egbert Souse posted:The dumb part is that Warner remastered the cartoons in HD with the same processes as the color Looney tunes. I guess they didn't want to take up as much disc space or holding over for a Blu set. Actually, Warner has a history of holding back extras mastered in HD. They did the same thing with the Blade Runner boxset (which if I remember right, they chose to do so they could double dip in the future)
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The Turin Horse in mid-July. 
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Sporadic posted:Actually, Warner has a history of holding back extras mastered in HD. They did the same thing with the Blade Runner boxset (which if I remember right, they chose to do so they could double dip in the future) Really? So that's why the extra discs are all just DVDs. It's a loving crime that the Dangerous Days doc is not in HD. You suck balls Warner.
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ApexAftermath posted:Really? So that's why the extra discs are all just DVDs. It's a loving crime that the Dangerous Days doc is not in HD. You suck balls Warner. I could have sworn that is what I read (jesus christ) five years ago but trying to find it now, here's the "official" reason from Warner. quote:Okay... we've got a little bit more news for you, starting with some follow-up on the high-def versions of Blade Runner. We've confirmed with Warner that both the Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD editions will feature ALL FIVE VERSIONS of the film in actual 1080p video, but the extras (the documentary, deleted scenes, etc) will all be in standard definition. The reason for this has nothing to do with disc space on either format, but rather timing. Work is still ongoing on some of the extras (it's a big job as you can imagine from the list of specs). Given that, I'm told that even if high-def compression were to start today on the all the extras, there'd be no way to get the high-def versions of the set completed in time to street this year, which is the film's anniversary. That said, even though the extras will be standard def, they're going to be compressed at a very high bitrate and, with upscaling, they should look plenty good. So that's that. http://www.thedigitalbits.com/mytwocentsa140.html What I remember reading from a different site was something to the extent that they produced all the extras in HD but held back on releasing them, at the time, so they would have something to upgrade for future releases. An incentive for buyers to double dip. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Apr 10, 2012 |
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DVDBeaver posted his review of A Trip To The Moon - Looks amazing. http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-ray_reviews56/a_trip_to_the_moon_blu-ray.htm Amazon dropped their price $6 down to $29.99 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...ASIN=B006XEH7EO
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Sporadic posted:DVDBeaver posted his review of A Trip To The Moon - Looks amazing. kuddles fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Apr 10, 2012 |
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kuddles posted:Seems like an astonishing restoration but if that review is true - that you can't listen to the traditional musical score on the colorized version - than that's a very odd decision. They were forced into it. When Flicker Alley licensed it from Lobster Films, one of the terms were they could only include the AIR soundtrack with the colorized version.
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Sporadic posted:DVDBeaver posted his review of A Trip To The Moon - Looks amazing. I ordered this at $35.99 from Amazon and it's "shipping soon." Should I cancel the order and reorder, or is it easier to get a price difference refund from Amazon?
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caiman posted:I ordered this at $35.99 from Amazon and it's "shipping soon." Should I cancel the order and reorder, or is it easier to get a price difference refund from Amazon? If you contact Amazon and tell them what happened, they should give you a "one time" price adjustment with no real hassle.
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Didn't see this posted yet... a sexy 8+ minute piece of the restoration of Jaws for the upcoming Blu-ray. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hLWvXaeDzwU
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ultraviolence123 posted:Didn't see this posted yet... a sexy 8+ minute piece of the restoration of Jaws for the upcoming Blu-ray. Universal seems to be doing better when they're remastering from scratch like All Quiet on the Western Front, To Kill a Mockingbird, and this. Their weakness seems to be using older transfers and running through HTV/Illuminate's crap DVNR system.
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The fact that there's no Blu Ray release of Browning's Freaks and I can't find any news that would lead me to believe one is in the pipeline is a crime.
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Geekboy posted:The fact that there's no Blu Ray release of Browning's Freaks and I can't find any news that would lead me to believe one is in the pipeline is a crime. You can actually watch that in HD on Amazon if you have Prime and a device you can use to access it on your TV. Looks like Warner has the rights to it. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Apr 11, 2012 |
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Freaks isn't going to be a huge upgrade. The 35mm elements that exist are spotty - it's not a film like Mutiny on the Bounty '35 with a camera negative ready to transfer in 4K. The DVD seemed to be from a duplicate negative, with sections taken from prints. The eventual Blu-Ray would just allow for the usual benefits - extra resolution, better compression, and wider grayscale. For that matter, it would make more sense to release a Blu set with a few Tod Browning films since you could fit Freaks, Mark of the Vampire, and The Devil Doll on one BD-50 with room to spare for extras. I kind of wish titles not even released on DVD like The Big Parade and Greed got Blu-Ray editions first. Egbert Souse fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Apr 11, 2012 |
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Really really excited about the Criterion of Hollis Frampton films - the only time I've seen Zorn's Lemma was a really bad (though I guess authentic seeming) 16 mm print and I've never seen a lot of the earlier stuff. Super pumped!
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So Shame is listed at $29.99 (list price of $39.99) on Amazon, and I'm sure it's because of the included DVD and "digital copy". This is such bullshit. What's wrong with a separate DVD release? If you have a BD player, you don't need the DVD, and if you only have a DVD player, you don't need the BD. Ridiculous. And don't get me started on the digital copy crap. Why do studios feel it's okay to charge a premium price for superfluous crap?
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Scott Pilgrim and Big Trouble In Little China are only $7.99 each on Amazon Scott Pilgrim = http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...ASIN=B0043GAZYS Big Trouble In Little China = http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...ASIN=B0028ZDJF8 caiman posted:So Shame is listed at $29.99 (list price of $39.99) on Amazon, and I'm sure it's because of the included DVD and "digital copy". This is such bullshit. What's wrong with a separate DVD release? If you have a BD player, you don't need the DVD, and if you only have a DVD player, you don't need the BD. Ridiculous. And don't get me started on the digital copy crap. Give it some time. I think the high price is more due to the fact that it's Fox Searchlight title than anything else. The arthouse type wings of studios always demand a higher price when the Blu-Ray comes out.
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Sporadic posted:I think the high price is more due to the fact that it's Fox Searchlight title than anything else. The arthouse type wings of studios always demand a higher price when the Blu-Ray comes out.
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caiman posted:So Shame is listed at $29.99 (list price of $39.99) on Amazon, and I'm sure it's because of the included DVD and "digital copy". This is such bullshit. What's wrong with a separate DVD release? If you have a BD player, you don't need the DVD, and if you only have a DVD player, you don't need the BD. Ridiculous. And don't get me started on the digital copy crap. There are plenty of titles with DVD and digital copy (and Blu-ray 3D and UltraViolet and etc.) that are more reasonably priced, and there are plenty of BD-only, single disc releases that are as much or more than Shame. People routinely like to complain about things like DVD/digital copies for adding expense, but really any such expense is amortized over a studio's entire line and price points are routinely set based on the marketability of the film.
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Any film noir fans here got any recommendations for beautiful blu-rays?
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Lizard Combatant posted:Any film noir fans here got any recommendations for beautiful blu-rays? Criterion's got a gorgeous Kiss Me Deadly... Double Indemnity's getting a new region 2 Masters of Cinema release in June (probably gonna be region-locked, tho), and Kino's got a "best available elements" transfer of Scarlet Street (first time it's ever been from a decent print, I believe) on Blu and DVD. Maltese Falcon has been out for a couple of years and has a great transfer too. If you can get a hold of the OOP Criterion Third Man, that's preferable to the weaker transfer on the Lionsgate. And I'm sure the noir historians around here can do a better job recommending stuff than I can. 
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Shadley Puffin posted:Criterion's got a gorgeous Kiss Me Deadly... Double Indemnity's getting a new region 2 Masters of Cinema release in June (probably gonna be region-locked, tho), and Kino's got a "best available elements" transfer of Scarlet Street (first time it's ever been from a decent print, I believe) on Blu and DVD. Maltese Falcon has been out for a couple of years and has a great transfer too. Thanks, I'll have to check these out  Looks like I'll have to wait for a lot of the classics though.
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Lizard Combatant posted:Any film noir fans here got any recommendations for beautiful blu-rays? In addition to Shadley's recs: The Killing/Killer's Kiss The Night of the Hunter Notorious Sweet Smell of Success
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FitFortDanga posted:In addition to Shadley's recs: Cheers. And I've been meaning to see The Killing too, nice.
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Lizard Combatant posted:Any film noir fans here got any recommendations for beautiful blu-rays? The Stranger is also in a bluray/dvd combo package but I wouldn't exactly call it 'beautiful' like the Criterion releases.
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friendo55 posted:The Stranger is also in a bluray/dvd combo package but I wouldn't exactly call it 'beautiful' like the Criterion releases. I'd wait for the eventual MGM/Fox Blu or Criterion. Their HD transfer is on Netflix and it looks fantastic. The Film Chest Blu isn't terrible, but they just took a 35mm print and ran it through a softening filter. Instead of going through Predator-level DVNR, it simply looks out of focus. For that matter, I'll third Criterion's The Killing, Sweet Smell of Success, and The Night of the Hunter. All 2K/4K transfers off the camera negatives and original magnetic audio masters. Notorious could have used some dirt/scratch cleanup, but it's gorgeous. It looks like it's from Disney's 1990s restoration from the camera negative.
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Today I received my Blu-ray of A Trip to the Moon. For those who haven't seen the new restoration, you're in for a treat. It's really great.
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