Re: THE ABYSS anamorphic release? (MERGED THREAD)
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| Paul, UK digital TV broadcasts are "anamorphic" in the way that Monsieur Hunt describes it as relating to DVD. There's no need to delve any further. That's what we've been repeatedly trying to get across, which leads to my next point... |
"We've" sort of moved past this point, Geoff. I'm no longer disputing that. What I AM doing is taking issue with some loose/inaccurate/misleading use of terminology that started this whole discussion. Your broader points don't really have much to do with the specific criticisms I make, say, in my post #119.
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| We've gotten a little excited because The Abyss - which is only available on "non-anamorphic" DVD - has been broadcast in "anamorphic" on TV, and in the original theatrical ratio to boot. |
Wonderful. But what you seem to be missing is that, although I acknowledge Dave's having mentioned there being precedent for anamorphic DVD release on the tails of an anamorphic U.K. broadcast, ONE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE OTHER. An engineer flipping a switch in some U.K. television broadcasting studio to squeeze their transmission has nothing to do with anamorphic DVD telecine done in a mastering house here in Hollywood (or wherever). I understand your point about the processes being analogous, but IMO the more important point is that those processes are completely discrete. It's almost as though you're intimating that your anamorphic broadcast is sourced from an anamorphic DVD when that is of course not the case and I think you know that.
And if you think that a U.K. anamorphic broadcast is somehow a stronger bellweather of when
Abyss will hit anamorphic DVD (and BD) than when Jim makes the time to supervise the transfer (which he'll insist upon) while shooting
Avatar, I'd disagree.
