Spider-Man 2 DVD Reviews - when? (1 Viewer)

[Vader]

As for the PQ of the SE, this reviewer says it is "flawless, with no EE". I guess YMMV....

http://www.dvddebate.com/modules.php...rder=0&thold=0

 

[Matt Czyz]

Well, um, they are!

 

[Jay Pennington]

Film to video. The latter, nowadays, would include digital and HD.

 

[Colin Jacobson]

Obviously 2.40:1 is slightly wider than 2.35:1, but my point is that the difference is so incredibly small that I find it difficult to believe someone could tell the difference with the naked eye. Minority Report comes listed at a 2.39:1 ratio, BTW.

 

[Tony_Ramos]

sorry to disagree with all of you, but the REAL issue here is not "which one you should buy" but the fact that,

THERE IS NO TECHNICAL REASON FOR THE SUPERBIT TO LOOK BETTER THAN THE SPECIAL EDITION.

Take a look at that special edition disc. It has a low bitrate, edge enhancement, other artifacts, and excessive filtering.

This *could* be understandable were it sharing space with special features, but it's not. Nor is it an overly long movie. Also, other movies with more commentary tracks show superior quality to this one.


The real travesty here is not that you have to buy one or two copies, or that "the standard version looks good enough," but that neither copy looks as good as it could.

 

[Herb Kane]

Especially when the percentage of overscan (-/+) is factored in...

 

[MuneebM]

Couldn't agree with you more Tony! Add to that the fact that the Superbit requires extra space/bandwidth for a DTS track, then technically the SE disc 1 should look a lot better! Neither copy is reference quality, and you'd expect at least the Superbit to be. Quite a disappointment!

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[AaronMK]

So for Spider-Man 2 if the 4k digital files were the source for both the film and the DVD, then we aren't really talking about "tranfer" quality then, are we? We are just talking about "filtering, downres, and compression" quality, although that is a mouthful.

 

[Grant H]

Of course it's not reference. Columbia/Tri-Star has edge-enhanced all their scope films from the get-go!! I don't know why they can't stop. Maybe as some have said before it's because they won't upgrade their equipment. I mean they're only Sony where would they ever get new gear?

The old rule was they left their 1.85:1 films alone and EE's the 2.35:1 (usually to a much lesser degree than other stuidos were doing at the time). Unfortunately, I'm betting they've upped the EE on non-Superbit titles since SB came around so that they could dial it back for the SB and yield a substantially better picture.

 

[GlennH]

Just further evidence of how far Columbia has fallen relative to other studios like Warner, Fox, and Paramount.

 

[Grant H]

Amazing since they started out so strong. Anamorphic widescreen titles right off the bat. Their reputation for strong starts could help them out in the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD format war, but will we want them to be the only HD optical disc provider in the long-run?

I sincerely hope they do away with all EE when they start mastering HD material. Hopefully they'll finally see it as unnecessary when dealing with higher resolution displays.

 

[Vader]

As far as I'm concerned, it's not necessary NOW....

 

[Chris Farmer]

Believe me tony, you're not the only one saying that. I've ranted to great lengths about the scam that is Superbit in this thread, believe me. Or don't and just check a few pages earlier for my posts.

 

[T r o y]

Picked up the superbit at BB yesterday. And watched it last night. With a scaled image of 720P thru SDI output, I did notice some softness in the image. And a tad on the
orange side for the fleshtones.
All in All , not a bad transfer. The DTS was amazing!

I sure can't wait til the High DEF DVd's start hitting shelves. I would love to see what this title will look like in high def

Out a here!
Troy

 

[Bill Blank]

I picked up the Superbit version at Best Buy ($14.99) this weekend and will be using as demo material, it looks and sounds that good IMO.

Bill

 

[Grant H]

My guess was they boosted the Spidey colors (red and blue) in the film's color palette accounting for the somewhat odd flesh tones and overall coloring of the movie. Seemed to be the same way with Spidey 1.

Ever since Blade, you just HAVE to do something with the colors of your superhero movie.


Oh, it certainly isn't, but whoever's doing the mastering on those 12" studio monitors seems to think otherwise unfortunately.

 

[Mike Wadkins]

its fantastic from the parts i have seen