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07-23-2008, 10:06 AM
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Re: Is it me or does the 'TERMINATOR 2' BD look no different than the UE DVD?
As one of Lionsgate's first BD releases, I'm sure they could do much better now.
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07-23-2008, 12:05 PM
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Jason
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Re: Is it me or does the 'TERMINATOR 2' BD look no different than the UE DVD?
I own both the BD and German Steelbook HD DVD and I can say with absolute certainty that the HD DVD is noticeably cleaner, sharper and the audio rocks on it. Totally worth the $50 I paid for it.
Now if Kinowelt would just put out English tracks to download for the trivia and bloopers extras, I would be the happiest camper.
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07-23-2008, 07:17 PM
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Re: Is it me or does the 'TERMINATOR 2' BD look no different than the UE DVD?
Not sure if this is the same encode as the HD DVD or not, but the UK is getting a BD release.
Amazon.co.uk: Terminator 2 - Judgment Day [Blu-ray] [1991]: Arnold Schwarzenegger, S. Epatha Merkerson, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Edward Furlong, Joe Morton, Xander Berkeley, Earl Boen, Jenette Goldstein, Castulo Guerra, James Cameron: DVD |
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07-23-2008, 08:40 PM
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As one of Lionsgate's first BD releases, I'm sure they could do much better now.
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Yeah...
looking forward too the AVC (advanced codec) remastered video w/DTS HD Master audio.
Can you believe this disc is MPEG2?!?!?!?!
Movies are: "The Greatest Artform".
HD should be for EVERYONE!
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07-24-2008, 03:27 AM
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Fritz Nilsen
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Re: Is it me or does the 'TERMINATOR 2' BD look no different than the UE DVD?
At the moment I have three Hi-Def versions of this movie, the US BD (Lionsgate), the french HD DVD (Studio Canal) and the german HD DVD (Kinowelt).
I agree that the screenshots from Xylon's thread are not conclusive, but when the film is viewed in motion, the Studio Canal HD DVD (dir. cut) has the sharpest, most hi-def, appearance. That being said, it still fails to achieve the wow-factor of many superior Hi-Def releases. There is room for improvements.
Due to hardware bottlenecks, I have high hopes that the forthcoming Blu-Ray from Optimum UK will port the Studio Canal transfer and thus replace the HD DVD as my preferred release of this film.
On a sad note: On my last viewings of this movie I've become aware that I've watched it too many times. I just can't get into it anymore and find my mind wandering. I've watched this film to death, literally, and am actually dreading having to watch it again to appraise the next version's PQ/AQ. Let that be a lesson to you, boys and girls, too much of a good thing will ruin it.
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07-24-2008, 09:19 AM
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Re: Is it me or does the 'TERMINATOR 2' BD look no different than the UE DVD?
The French release from Studio Canal.
Before my purchase, I thought I read somewhere the German version had forced subtitles so I went with the French version which was cheaper. Perhaps it was a French-run website still a bit angry over that whole WWII thing...
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07-24-2008, 06:31 PM
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Re: Is it me or does the 'TERMINATOR 2' BD look no different than the UE DVD?
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Before my purchase, I thought I read somewhere the German version had forced subtitles so I went with the French version which was cheaper.
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It´s actually the 2-disc French-version (HD DVD), which has "forced" subs with "Theatrical version". "Special Edition" version of the film has optional subs.
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07-25-2008, 04:22 AM
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Re: Is it me or does the 'TERMINATOR 2' BD look no different than the UE DVD?
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I often regret that Cameron and his team did so much to publicize the Super35 process. Now it's almost impossible to discuss T2 or The Abyss without someone trying to explain some visual element by referencing Super35. Funny how that rarely happens with films that people don't automatically associate with Super35, e.g., Black Rain, Ridley Scott's film from 1989, two years before T2; or Apollo 13 and Se7en from 1995; or (gasp!) The Fifth Element from 1997.
All of those are Super35 films. (And all of them were pre-DI, too.)
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Silverado is one of my favorite movies and I think even to this day one of the best looking Super 35 movies ever made.
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07-25-2008, 09:43 AM
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Re: Is it me or does the 'TERMINATOR 2' BD look no different than the UE DVD?
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Not sure if this is the same encode as the HD DVD or not, but the UK is getting a BD release.
Amazon.co.uk: Terminator 2 - Judgment Day [Blu-ray] [1991]: Arnold Schwarzenegger, S. Epatha Merkerson, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Edward Furlong, Joe Morton, Xander Berkeley, Earl Boen, Jenette Goldstein, Castulo Guerra, James Cameron: DVD |
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07-25-2008, 10:17 PM
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Re: Is it me or does the 'TERMINATOR 2' BD look no different than the UE DVD?
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Silverado is one of my favorite movies and I think even to this day one of the best looking Super 35 movies ever made.
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Another gorgeous pre-Digital Intermetiate Super-35 film is Martin Scorsese's KUNDUN. I saw that projected and it was absolutely stunning visually.
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07-25-2008, 10:22 PM
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Re: Is it me or does the 'TERMINATOR 2' BD look no different than the UE DVD?
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Older Super 35 films might appear a bit more grainy, but they should have considerably more detail than an SD DVD. Mid 80s films such as Silverado and Top Gun are likely to be fairly grainy, but T2 was made after Eastman introduced the t-grain film stocks and should look pretty darn good.
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"A bit more grainy" than what, though. Even "older" Super-35 should look better, all things considered, than a 1.85:1 movie from the same era in High Def, if we're going by the size of the negative as a deciding factor, since the 1.85:1 negative is only around 21mm wide and that will be spread completely across the HD frame, compared to 24mm for Super-35 spread across the same width.
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