After the end credits it shows Lowry for this one. The others that were mentioned do not have the Lowry credit on blu Ray. Initially Lowry did all the transfers for the ue DVDs from dr. No to die another day.Oblivion138 said:
Osato said:
Blu Ray does have a wider color spectrum.Oblivion138 said:
Insteresting. I didn't see a ton of difference. I no longer have ohmss on DVD to compare the 2.Oblivion138 said:
Thanks!Worth said:A number of the masters were tweaked for blu-ray when complaints regarding the DVDs surfaced.
http://www.007magazine.co.uk/bond50_review.htm
Viewers will be pleased to hear that nearly all the faults inherent in the original Ultimate Edition DVD releases have been corrected. The red blood wash which fills the screen after the death of Quist in the shark pool in Thunderball is now present, and the overall colour palette of the film is closer to Ted Moore’s original lush Technicolor cinematography seen in release prints. You Only Live Twice also features a slightly altered colour palette but falls short of replicating Freddie Young’s saturated hues and looks a little more flat (read modern) for my taste. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service has also been tweaked to tone down the blue-hued dawn beach sequence, which looked nothing like it should on the Ultimate Edition DVD version. This change, whilst not perfect, is a step in the right direction. OHMSS also retains its ‘window-boxed’ and horizontally squeezed main titles (as do Thunderball, Moonraker, The Spy Who Loved Me and The World Is Not Enough), whereas its successor doesn’t (although it did on the UE DVD!). Diamonds Are Forever has also been tweaked and its colour scheme slightly altered from how it has looked in the past. The results are a little constrasty but nothing that would stop the most pedantic of viewers from enjoying the film. The Spy Who Loved Me andOctopussy are huge upgrades from their standard definition predecessors with the latter looking far better than it ever did in the cinema. The rather washed-out soft look of cinema prints is replaced with an eye-popping colour palette and pin-sharp images, which I suspect are the result of digital trickery rather than something that was ingrained in the original negative.
Another notable change is the remastering of GoldenEye, which is now correctly framed in its original 2:35:1 ratio instead of the TV version previously released, which zoomed-in on the image and cropped out a large proportion of cinematographer Phil Meheux’s compositions. Unfortunately the transfer has been subjected to an egregious amount of digital noise reduction (DNR) which removes a lot of fine detail from the image. DNR is used to smooth out the grain inherent in the film stock to maintain a more balanced image from shot-to-shot. Once again, a studio more sympathetic to the actual authentic look of the film, rather than its commercial value, would have addressed these issues instead of releasing a version that subtracts instead of adding to the high definition experience.
Unfortunately the only error not corrected is the camera-shake inserted to simulate an earth tremor in A View To A Kill. This has been mistakenly stabilised by Lowry’s software which interpreted it as an error in the film! Incidentally Duran Duran’s music video has also been corrected. The Ultimate Edition DVD version cropped out the cameras overlaid on the image so they disappeared into the black background of the widescreen matted but full frame image!
Worth said:A number of the masters were tweaked for blu-ray when complaints regarding the DVDs surfaced.
http://www.007magazine.co.uk/bond50_review.htm
Viewers will be pleased to hear that nearly all the faults inherent in the original Ultimate Edition DVD releases have been corrected. The red blood wash which fills the screen after the death of Quist in the shark pool in Thunderball is now present, and the overall colour palette of the film is closer to Ted Moore’s original lush Technicolor cinematography seen in release prints. You Only Live Twice also features a slightly altered colour palette but falls short of replicating Freddie Young’s saturated hues and looks a little more flat (read modern) for my taste. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service has also been tweaked to tone down the blue-hued dawn beach sequence, which looked nothing like it should on the Ultimate Edition DVD version. This change, whilst not perfect, is a step in the right direction. OHMSS also retains its ‘window-boxed’ and horizontally squeezed main titles (as do Thunderball, Moonraker, The Spy Who Loved Me and The World Is Not Enough), whereas its successor doesn’t (although it did on the UE DVD!). Diamonds Are Forever has also been tweaked and its colour scheme slightly altered from how it has looked in the past. The results are a little constrasty but nothing that would stop the most pedantic of viewers from enjoying the film. The Spy Who Loved Me andOctopussy are huge upgrades from their standard definition predecessors with the latter looking far better than it ever did in the cinema. The rather washed-out soft look of cinema prints is replaced with an eye-popping colour palette and pin-sharp images, which I suspect are the result of digital trickery rather than something that was ingrained in the original negative.
Another notable change is the remastering of GoldenEye, which is now correctly framed in its original 2:35:1 ratio instead of the TV version previously released, which zoomed-in on the image and cropped out a large proportion of cinematographer Phil Meheux’s compositions. Unfortunately the transfer has been subjected to an egregious amount of digital noise reduction (DNR) which removes a lot of fine detail from the image. DNR is used to smooth out the grain inherent in the film stock to maintain a more balanced image from shot-to-shot. Once again, a studio more sympathetic to the actual authentic look of the film, rather than its commercial value, would have addressed these issues instead of releasing a version that subtracts instead of adding to the high definition experience.
Unfortunately the only error not corrected is the camera-shake inserted to simulate an earth tremor in A View To A Kill. This has been mistakenly stabilised by Lowry’s software which interpreted it as an error in the film! Incidentally Duran Duran’s music video has also been corrected. The Ultimate Edition DVD version cropped out the cameras overlaid on the image so they disappeared into the black background of the widescreen matted but full frame image!
Bryan Tuck said:
Reed Grele said:
Wrong. It was apparently Spy Who Loved Me but only in London.??? This review says that OHMSS was the first Bond film with a stereo soundtrack.
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They should all be noted on the original printing records
I think OHMSS is the most visually elevated of the Bond films before the Daniel Craig Bonds (where the budget soared and it showed in production values and cinematography.) GOLDFINGER is the best Bond imho from top to bottom. Best story, best connery performance, best gadgets, best villains, best writing, best sequence, best Bond ladies, best car, best song etc. And not coincidentally, the shortest.
Dr. No is a minute shorter than Goldfinger.
you are correct, i thought GF was 108 and was going by that.
