Will Krupp
Senior HTF Member
Well, your Oppo definitely plays 24fps back from DVD and I'm not sure which Panasonic model you have but, I'm pretty sure the models since the vt50 are 24fps compatible.
I did a quick comparison between the two myself. They're different transfers to start with so a one to one comparison isn't really possible since not all things are equal. The newer transfer is darker than the one on the DVD, which isn't necessarily a bad thing in itself since the DVD is a tad too bright and with a hazy, middling contrast, but here the image looks lazy and downright murky at times. I only saw the first few scenes but I see a significant difference between the two. I'm getting interlaced lines everywhere (check out Martha Vicker's profile right after she falls into Bogart's arms and Norris the butler's mouth when he talks.) In other places the lines come and go (as you would expect) and it has the effect of muddying the image and making it look less focused than the one on DVD. Characters who are any distance away from the camera (think the General when we first meet him) often have their features obscured by interlaced lines when they speak. Movement is jerkier in the newer transfer (most noticeable when Marlowe and the butler cross the Sternwood reception hall and the camera follows them with a panning shot, pans always being difficult for 3:2 pulldown) and it appears less "natural" and, to my eye, more "digitzed" as a whole.
I did a quick comparison between the two myself. They're different transfers to start with so a one to one comparison isn't really possible since not all things are equal. The newer transfer is darker than the one on the DVD, which isn't necessarily a bad thing in itself since the DVD is a tad too bright and with a hazy, middling contrast, but here the image looks lazy and downright murky at times. I only saw the first few scenes but I see a significant difference between the two. I'm getting interlaced lines everywhere (check out Martha Vicker's profile right after she falls into Bogart's arms and Norris the butler's mouth when he talks.) In other places the lines come and go (as you would expect) and it has the effect of muddying the image and making it look less focused than the one on DVD. Characters who are any distance away from the camera (think the General when we first meet him) often have their features obscured by interlaced lines when they speak. Movement is jerkier in the newer transfer (most noticeable when Marlowe and the butler cross the Sternwood reception hall and the camera follows them with a panning shot, pans always being difficult for 3:2 pulldown) and it appears less "natural" and, to my eye, more "digitzed" as a whole.
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