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Cover art appears to be the image of Cardinale and Lancaster dancing that has appeared on TBC artwork online for months.
http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=285;5;-1;-1;-1&sku=217698
Disc is rumoured to be region B, and has been up for preorder on Amazon with a release date as far back as February 2010; but this same disc has just appeared as an HMV exclusive, with no press release or announcement as warning, like Gremlins and the Wizards of Oz exclusives in the US.
Posts your findings here if you're in the UK and able to get to an HMV, so we know whether to import!
Ben
Sydney, Australia
P.S Tarantino has finally bested Pulp Fiction.
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I imported the second I heard some reports that it wasn't terrible.
My viewing of it suggested that I'd had a very bad experience viewing it in a theatre, with the filthiest print that ever graced God's Green Earth, and a projector with lenses out of alignment, which produced a massive blurry patch in the dead centre, where the actors liked to dwell.
So, the blu ray was a MASSIVE improvement for me, also in the audio department. The audio at the live screening was screachy and thin; just horrible! But its far better preserved here.
Viewing on a 50" plasma, something bothers me about movement on this disc. Despite its tremendous detail, there are two issues I had with it. 1) jet blacks are often used as a compliment. Sometimes the blacks were so dark here that Cardinale, who is a brunette, appeared to have black hair. Surely some strange adjustment must have happened to cause this. 2) discs that have had DNR used have juddery movement, resembling that of a 50Hz LCD. Movement wasn't anywhere near as bad as it was in soething like Zulu. It was fine in closeups and well-lit shots, but any time a lot of grain would have been present, ie in massive outdoor vistas with lots of sky, movement turned quite jerky. This is something that was not present at all on terrific un-DNR'd transfers such as Sunrise or Wizard of Oz. I never know whether i'm just being paranoid, or if its an artifact of my PS3, or perhaps my Plasma, but I have to say something was decidedly unsmooth about movement on this one. Please inform me if you know of a natural non-DNR explanation for this.
P.S Tarantino has finally bested Pulp Fiction.
