Robin9
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I watched Pick-up On South Street yesterday. A superb transfer, pretty well perfect. The "extras" are good too.
Yeah, I'm thinking of buying this release and once I do then Criterion will announce a Region A BD release.Robin9 said:I watched Pick-up On South Street yesterday. A superb transfer, pretty well perfect. The "extras" are good too.
Robert Crawford said:Yeah, I'm thinking of buying this release and once I do then Criterion will announce a Region A BD release.
Since Fox did this 4K work I have to assume that Criterion will be releasing a Blu-ray of it in the near future. It might not be until next year, but it's coming.Robin9 said:Many a true word spoken in jest. The "boutique" market is constantly evolving, and the studios now realise that it makes sense to lease their titles to different companies in different continents. Many titles released by Criterion, Twilight Time and Olive have also been released in Europe.
That's very true!bigshot said:The main differences between the various releases are the supplements that the distributor brings to the table. The film transfers often derive from the same master.
Yeah, I bought it today along with The Thing From Another World DVD. Watch, Twilight Time announce a Region A Blu-ray release for 2016.Robin9 said:I watched Pick-up On South Street yesterday. A superb transfer, pretty well perfect. The "extras" are good too.
bigshot said:The main differences between the various releases are the supplements that the distributor brings to the table. The film transfers often derive from the same master.
bigshot said:I have the previous release of The Skull and Man Who Could Cheat Death, and my primary objection to Cheat Death was the color fringing from out of register color elements. I looked at the Beaver comparisons, and as usual he reviewed by bitrate, not by eye. I am curious whether the film element problems have been corrected here. Single layer is fine for me. The captures at beaver look identical.
bigshot said:Can you address the color fringing issues in the film print if you have seen them both?
bigshot said:I guess what I'm asking is, do they use the same *film element*, because I have no problem with the transfer and encoding. The color and contrast is fine. No digital artifacting. But the film print they used was bad. There is a scene in a living room towards the beginning of the film where you can see that the three color negatives are out of register. There are magenta halos around things. It looks kind of like a comic book where the colors don't line up right. This is called "color fringing" and it is a result of shrunken negatives being combined optically to create a film print. It doesn't matter how good of a digital transfer it is. If the print they are using has color fringing, it will have color fringing even at 4k.
I suspect that they used the same basic film transfer, which means the color fringing will probably still be there. A higher bitrate won't help that.