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for $55.95+tax if you use the 30% discount code ANWBTS and buy one other title (it's only good if you purchase two or more items), otherwise it's $77.95. You get free shipping at both sites.
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Originally Posted by Bryan Beckman
Considering how expensive the other HBO Blu-ray sets are, this is a good price for an outstanding miniseries.
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Damn, I simply can´t wait.
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Originally Posted by David Wilkins
This title should should be a revelation, so far as the way DNR is applied. This title plus the last several Spielberg movies, which have very pronounced grain, by design.
I can already hear the droning pin-heads from every corner of internet-land, doing their best Quasimodo: "The grain...the grain...". If they choose to dampen the grain on this one...well, it will make the 'Patton' outcry sound like a polite, repressed whimper; and the result will be more obvious by an order of magnitude. Along with a muted color palette, grain is the primary image component. Should be interesting. |
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Originally Posted by Douglas Monce
Considering that the grain and the subdued color palate on this show is completely intentional, I doubt seriously that they will do anything to change it.
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Just another amateur learning to paint w/ "the light of the world".
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I am glad I held of on buying this title so I will only have to buy it one time. The first time I saw this title was on my 31" Toshiba CRT TV on DVD. So I am now counting the days to see it with a awsum 1080p transfer on my 50" HDTV. 
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Originally Posted by Douglas Monce
Considering that the grain and the subdued color palate on this show is completely intentional, I doubt seriously that they will do anything to change it.
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| I sampled a bit of part 2. The picture looks awesome whites look a little blown out, and the color is desaturated and the image is full of grain. Detail is excellent and depth is great. It looks as good as, maybe even better than, Letter and Flags. The MA track is great and it doesn't disappoint. But it just cannot keep up with Letters from Iwo Jima(which is a freak of audio nature itself). The clarity and spacing is better than SPR, but that mix is crazy and I think it still sounds better. |
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Originally Posted by Jesse Blacklow
According to a poster at AVS who got his copy sent VERY early from Warner, it looks fantastic, high-level grain and all:
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Just another amateur learning to paint w/ "the light of the world".
"To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men."
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Originally Posted by Felix Martinez
I don't like the selling point of "re-mastered."
Please, please keep grain intact. Otherwise, really looking forward to this set! |
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Originally Posted by Felix Martinez
Alas, it was not a selling point. The Blu-ray set has indeed been "remastered" via some grain-reduction, to a degree which I'm sure will be further debated.
Edit: Xylon just posted some screencaps which confirms what I'm seeing. This is not a replay of Patton, but folks bothered by the DNR used in Pan's Labyrinth and Dark City might be similarly peeved. I'm just frustrated HBO couldn't leave well enough alone. |
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Originally Posted by David Wilkins
This is one of several titles that I couldn't imagine grain reduction being applied to, since grain was such an inherent, intentional "look" of the work. I was wrong.
I'm officially sorry that I pre-ordered. |
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Originally Posted by Edwin-S
Is it a noticeable improvement over the DVD set? They want 80 bucks, not including tax, for the set at my local FutureShop. I really don't want to have to buy this set for a third time.
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