Recent content by EddieLarkin

You can see the film grain that is on the source master in the new Blu-ray, which is capped in the same review as a point of comparison. What you see on the UHD is that same grain after it has been fed through a pipeline that is not remotely big enough to handle it. The result being its complete...

Those caps don't show evidence of DNR or grain management of any kind. It is simply very very poor disc compression. You can tell from how blocky and broken up the grain that remains has become. Juice on UHD, recently released by Paramount, was much the same. If David Mackenzie had encoded...

On the new transfer, a fade has become a cut: https://twitter.com/shittydeath/status/1057091381624274944 https://twitter.com/shittydeath/status/1057091574411264000 Which is correct?

It specifically states that the second Blu-ray featuring the shorter cut, and the soundtrack CD, are Limited Edition exclusives. A 1 disc version is forthcoming.

Using that logic we would still see the rounded corners on the right side during 2.55:1 projection since only the left is used to accommodate the soundtrack. I see no reason why a 2.66:1 presentation would have rounded corners, they'd just be masked off by the gate like all films, no?

The centerline is offset at 2.55:1 for THE ROBE, HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE and BENEATH THE TWELVE MILE REEF because they were composed at, and at least during production, intended to be screened at, 2.66:1.

The BFI plan a two volume Blu-ray collection of some of Russell's TV work in February (the first of which includes The Debussy Film and Song of Summer, with the second including Isadora and Dante's Inferno, among others)...

Unfortunately, I am not interested in seeing Triumph of the Will with enforced third party addenda. I understand the possible reasons Synapse might go down this route, whether it's a desire to only make an educational version of Triumph available to the public, undermining its inherent evil...

What are these IDs? Are they translating on screen text? Or are they intended as educational supplements to the main feature?

Meaning Olive could have delivered a disc exactly like Eureka's back in 2013 (achieving a 4.5 from Mr. Harris instead of a 3.0) if they only understood how important the encoding stage is, and how apparently easy it is to foul it up.

Again, David himself has confirmed that the black levels have not been changed. They are not now inky, they always have been. It is Olive that has caused them to be milky on their release. As to whether or not simply encoding can change black levels, I'll defer again to the post from David I...

In fact, David himself confirms that the Eureka disc matches the master precisely in terms of black level here: http://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=11558083&postcount=113

David Mackenzie does the job of an authoring house by himself, and is by now definitely considered the best in the business. Going by his usual MO, I would absolutely expect it to be the case that in fact neither Eureka nor himself did anything to the master they received from the licencor...

Actually, the US disc of African Queen is superior where it counts most: http://www.caps-a-holic.com/c.php?a=2&x=521&y=72&d1=2573&d2=2572&s1=23671&s2=23679&l=0&i=3&go=1

I might double dip for the nicer package, additional extras and booklet, but it'd be for the later 1 disc edition. The second disc is completely useless to me.