Doctorossi
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On it like something that's really on something else. Thanks!
That would be mine, as well. Despite the certain availability of good digital projectors in the venues in which this will be screened, I would be shocked to see Fathom take the step away from the 'pre-show' data projectors any time soon.Robert Harris said:For one day only, Fathom Events will be screening Singin' in the Rain -- July 12th.
While you may wish to be one of the first to purchase tickets, from past issues discussed on HTF, my recommendation is to skip it,
and purchase the Blu-ray.
Garbage in, garbage out.
"Limited Seats Available"
Hurry, our operators are standing by.
RAH
Originally Posted by Chas in CT /t/320716/whv-press-release-singin-in-the-rain-60th-anniversary-ultimate-collectors-edition/60#post_3934487
Haven't been to one of these yet, and don't intend to start now.
Yes, it's kind of stupefying, considering they have to book the theaters long in advance, anyway.Garysb said:The least they could do is distribute the film in advance instead of live. There is no point in doing it live where they risk problems with transmission.
Fathom's whole system is setup for live transmission, because they primarily do live broadcasts of opera concerts to theaters.Doctorossi said:Yes, it's kind of stupefying, considering they have to book the theaters long in advance, anyway.
I also saw the Poltergeist fathom screening. I left 10 min into it and got my money back. The Star Trek The Menagerie screening a year or so later was MUCH better, as the theater was using their Digital Cinema projector rather than their pre-show commercial projector.Powell&Pressburger said:I have said it before and I will say it again, I attended a FATHOM event for POLTERGEIST before the BLU was released and it was the worst presentation EVER! The video was cropped at 1.85:1 approx and the sound was what felt like 2 stereo or maybe just mono IT was awful to even sit there. Save your money for the BLU ray and enjoy it in a better presentation.
Originally Posted by haineshisway /t/320716/whv-press-release-singin-in-the-rain-60th-anniversary-ultimate-collectors-edition/90#post_3943682
If the colors are similar to the DVD it's wrong. Too brown, sorry. But I would never judge anything by the Beaver caps.
Now, that is encouraging! Thank you.Robert Harris said:The earlier DVD appears to have been sourced from a faded CRI. The Blu-ray has correct color.
RAH
Great news. Funnily, the faded CRI scenario was what I believed for the DVD release because the color was nothing like any IB Tech print I've ever owned or seen. But even if it was off some new element, whoever did the color timing clearly did it incorrectly.Robert Harris said:The earlier DVD appears to have been sourced from a faded CRI. The Blu-ray has correct color.
RAH
This same thing happened In the early days of DVD, when studios would dump old nonanamorphic laserdisc transfers onto DVD with remastering them for the new medium.NY2LA said:So when the industry complains that Blu Ray is not taking off and becoming the bonanza that DVD was, and that reissues aren't selling so well on Blu Ray, I think they're often refusing to factor in the cheap-ass job they did on them.
A poster to another forum described the creation of the SINGIN' IN THE RAIN DVD this way:NY2LA said:I was under the impression that the DVD had been done from Warner's proprietary Ultra Resolution process in which all three technicolor matrices are scanned digitally then precisely aligned to produce truer resolution than ever seen before. When shown at the Academy you could see Kelly's scar, makeup details, etc. We all assumed (as the publicity of the time stated) the DVD came from that.
Therefore it's kind of curious to hear someone suggest the DVD was sourced from an old element, print or neg.
With the "connections" this forum is supposed to have, couldn't someone just call Mr. Feltenstein or Mr. Price and ask what was mastered from what? From my latest net search, it seems we haven't heard from them lately.