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Originally Posted by Jari K
We already have one thread about this. What´s going on?
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Originally Posted by Johannes S
The reaction to RAH's outstanding article on "The Bits", the overwhelmingly positive response it had on this forum, followed by the removal of these threads is proof enough for me, how disconcerted the whole industry is.
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"Scientists are saying the future is going to be far more futuristic than they originally predicted." -Krysta Now
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Originally Posted by Will_B
Just for the record, RAH had those threads removed, not HTF -- possibly because he was wrong about Patton having had noise reduction done.
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Originally Posted by Will_B
You also have to figure, different filmmakers will have different opinions. Some will want the grain gone. Some will want it preserved. Some will want something in the middle. And complaints await for every one!
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Originally Posted by Will_B
Just for the record, RAH had those threads removed, not HTF -- possibly because he was wrong about Patton having had noise reduction done.
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Originally Posted by David Wilkins
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Originally Posted by Jari K
"Filmmakers" do these type of decisions during the production and post-production. Not when the film is released on DVD/Blu-ray.
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Originally Posted by ChristopherDAC
Actually, this isn't entirely true. Film-makers often have some control in the process of preparing their films for video release, and if you talk to the technical people involved (e.g. telecine colorists) you will occasionally hear a horror story along the lines of "I had my hand on the DVNR control while he was watching the monitor, & every time I turned it up he smiled, & every time I turned it down he started scowling". {That was a paraphrase from something I read in the Telecine Interest Group.}
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| I was actually quite surprised to go back to the director’s cut and look at it and go “Well, it’s really quite a different movie.” The movie that I intended to make, the one coming out, it was two quite different films, so I am really happy that I was able to go back to reinstate what was there originally. |
| So how is the director's cut? It seems it's a "major" change. |
Will be renting it next week, I hope.
Death to PG-13! And now death to DVNR too!!
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Originally Posted by Jim_K
Whaaa??? You don't seriously expect anyone to pay attention to a detail as trivial as the movie itself do you?
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Originally Posted by Sam Davatchi
So how is the director's cut? It seems it's a "major" change.
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Originally Posted by Robert George
Suffice to say, if one is a fan of the film, whatever the shortcomings of this transfer, real or imagined, it is still a must-have. Indeed, I was so immersed in Alex Proyas' world that I completely forgot to look for the "horrible" look of excessive DNR.
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Just another amateur learning to paint w/ "the light of the world".
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did." T.E. Lawrence
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Originally Posted by Robert Harris
I'm seeing light to moderate noise reduction of some sort, which occasionally affects the image, but never infects it. I don't believe that there is anything here that will take one out of the film.
And this is certainly nothing on the order of the few titles that have been the subject of numerous discussions. I've placed Dark City on my Level One in the quick quality guide. |
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Originally Posted by Robert Harris
I'm seeing light to moderate noise reduction of some sort, which occasionally affects the image, but never infects it. I don't believe that there is anything here that will take one out of the film.
And this is certainly nothing on the order of the few titles that have been the subject of numerous discussions. RAH |
and [chuckle] 10 year old memories of a theatrical screening.|
Originally Posted by RobertR
Either the transfer is lacking detail that could and should be there or it isn't. Your opinion doesn't make the detail magically reappear, no matter how much you rant against those who point out it's missing.
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Originally Posted by RobertR
What's missing is detail that was in the film source, detail that people KNOW to be there from watching the film (including myself), and that Blu Ray is KNOWN to be capable of showing.
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[no not really]
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Originally Posted by Jim_K
I'm totally confused.
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| I and everybody else stayed on topic with the proper subject of Dark City? |
| Is Patton going to be the poster child for arguing the legitamacy of screengrabs? |
| Originally Posted by RobertR These days it's better to wait for comments from people who have seen the transfer, are FULLY aware of the DNR/EE issue and what it looks like, AND have the large screen high end equipment to show such problems.. |
