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- Robert Harris
And hopefully also saving some for you.RAH, your 'a few words about' have been costing me a lot of money lately!
Mark
And hopefully also saving some for you.RAH, your 'a few words about' have been costing me a lot of money lately!
Mark
And hopefully also saving some for you.
I would have taken a "warts and all" HD transfer.The 1945 cut of the film has moderate to severe damage, that would preclude a simple HD transfer. Presentation in HD would have entailed inordinate expense.
RAH
Ditto!In the same vain, I like to give a shout out to Dorthy Malone in one of her earlier roles as the book shop girl. I always had a crush on her.
Beats an SD transfer every day of the week!I would have taken a "warts and all" HD transfer.
It doesn't say anything about the resolution of the digital acquisition,workflow or output, just how good the discs look upconverted / scaled to 4k on a high quality UHD display or projection system. I would guess that most of the time these discs are watched on a 4k Sony SXRD, a very nice projector!
Not saying it has been done that way but to put things in perspective especially for the academy ratio even a 2k scan neds to be downscaled quite a bit. Going to Blu-ray one would effectively downscale from about 2000 by 1500 pixels to 1440 by 1080.
A 2k scan would generally be cropped, not downscaled. Keep in mind all of that track area that's a part of the scan on the left side of the image, in addition to the normal 2.5-5% crop at right.
The original scan begins with 2048.
RAH
Thanks for that link.A terrific new interview with 92 year old Sonia Darrin who played Agnes in the movie http://nypost.com/2016/02/17/meet-the-92-year-old-actress-recluse-who-once-starred-with-bogart/
Thanks for the technical info Robert & Oliver - very interesting to hear these details.A 2k scan would generally be cropped, not downscaled. Keep in mind all of that track area that's a part of the scan on the left side of the image, in addition to the normal 2.5-5% crop at right.
The original scan begins with 2048.
RAH
Thanks for the technical info Robert & Oliver - very interesting to hear these details.
So, it sounds like that possibly no one on this discussion thread knows whether the film elements were scanned at 2K or 4K
( or even 6K - not very likely this latter probably; just mention it as yesterday watched the Olivier 1950's 'Richard III', not a WBros release, which, at the start of the
UK Bluray edition, says it was scanned at 6K & colour corrected at 4K ).
Do Warner Brothers have a policy of not disclosing the initial scan rates ( &/or related technical detail ) ?
And if so, why would that be ?
Or is it just that no one there has thought to make the info public - or perhaps don't think anyone's interested in such matters?!