I have a few discs with a little chroma bleed, but hardly noticable. The only time I have ever had a problem with chroma bleed on LD was the copy of the Adventures of Baron von Munchausen (non-Criterion) which I checked out of the TCU film library, but that one was claw-your-eyes-out bad. It had red bleeding off of people's faces!
A few of my discs have chroma noise, but nothing like VHS levels. I noticed the noise on my US-release Project A-Ko only when projecting it on a 10-foot screen for a convention audience… I have wondered if it was struck from a U-Matic master (broadcast-grade low-band tape, similar technology to VHS), since the noise pattern looked like VHS noise only much "quieter".
Passing over the fact that some anime DVDs are overcompressed or otherwise badly-mastered, I really enjoy my discs, most of them have not cost me a lot, & I do have some things you can't get anywhere else. The extras on the $180 Wings of Honneamise LD, for example, aren't even on the Blu-Ray!
Watched Batman Begins on Blu-ray last night, had it on Betamax um...HD DVD but unloaded it to some poor sucker on Ebay.
Also watched a moldy early 70's sci-fi flic ZPG a.k.a. Zero Population Growth (a netflix rental) on regular old DVD.
Kind of a cross between Children of Men and Zardoz, stars poor Oliver Reed. It sucked balls. Thank god for Lucas injecting some life into the Sci-fi genre back in '77.
Hellboy 2 looks good. Maybe next weekend I'll journey back to the land of seat kickers, and twits who can't put down their cell phones.
Pre-orders - BLU-RAY: 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Casino, Cool Hand Luke, Dawn of the Dead, Death Proof, Dr No, Eastern Promises, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia With Love, The Godfather Collection, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, Hulk, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Incredible Hulk, Interview with the Vampire, Iron Man, JFK, Kill Bill 1 & 2, LA Confidential, Live and Let Die, The Matrix (Ultimate Collection), The Mist, The Omen, Planet of the Apes (Evolution Collection), Planet Terror, Poltergeist, The Sixth Sense, Sleeping Beauty, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Thing, The Third Man, Thunderball, WALL E, Young Frankenstein DVD: Budd Boetticher Collection, Icons of Horror: The Hammer Collection, Popeye the Sailor Vol #3, Rodan/War of the Gargantuas, Warner Gangster Collection Vol #4
I know Russ has a DVD Profiler, cause i have looked at his link. Do you have one Steve? Id put mine up if i could figure out how to put MY Profiler in a link.
I never tried Profiler, but I did try others and always gave up listing every movie I had, I'm just too lazy. If there was a way I can just feed my never ending excel sheet of movies to one of these things and let it go to work it'd be nice. But anyway I'm satisfied with my home made data set up, I can access it very fast. I don't need to see the dvd cover besides every title.
My movies sorted by genre -
SF - 566
Horror - 551
Fantasy - 225
Historical - 185
War - 121
Westerns - 157
Action/Thrillers - 480
Musicals - 110
Comedy - 445
Animation - 233
Anime Movies - 71
Disney animation - 59
CG Animation - 47
I hope there is some film noir stuck away in one of those categories, Steve.
Watched the Blu-ray import of Black Narcissus this afternoon. The disc really showed off Jack Cardiff's cinematography. All in all, a very nice presentation of a wonderfully vivid film. The extra resolution really assists in presenting the the detail in the palace/convent; especially in the murals and paintings.
I had forgotten what a stunner Kathleen Byron was in this film.
Managed to catch the Blu-ray of Trainspotting also. Did not realize that this was a (Japanese?) disc, but it played fine once I lumbered through the menus.
- Walter.
Fidelity to the source should always be the goal for Blu-ray releases.
Nice sig Joe. Hard to believe but Ridley Scott's sci-fi classic will be 30 years old next year! I still remember the huge Alien posters outside cinemas all over London, it was the film to see that summer.
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Originally Posted by Walter Kittel
I hope there is some film noir stuck away in one of those categories, Steve.
Walter, I missed a few genres when I started the list, like noir, drama, gangster and adventure. And now we have the increasingly popular superhero and comicbook subgenres, do they fall under Fantasy or Sci-fi?
I did mark all the Foreign language films in my collection, or films 'Not in the English Language' , though I did cheat and include films like the Dollars trilogy and Barbarella. I have 388 non-English films altogether, the majority of which come from the far east, HK and Japan. They take up about a tenth of my collection.
If anyone wants a peek, all 388 are listed under the spoiler -
stars poor Oliver Reed. It sucked balls. Thank god for Lucas injecting some life into the Sci-fi genre back in '77. 
