Re: *** Official HTF HD Formats Industry/Retailer/Studio Support Thread
| I'm not saying that every HD DVD released by Universal is sub-par. I'm specifically stating that when legacy masters exists, Universal uses them to save money regardless of whether a picture-quality gain would be had by spending the money on a new film-to-digital transfer. |
NOW you're being more careful with your word choice. This is not what you said originally, what with your reference to "Universal's consistently bad HD transfers."
And in the same way that you can acknowledge that Bill's choice of words is bad, I'd like to think you can understand how someone would take issue with yours: I think you can make your specific point about SOME U CATALOG titles without broadly, basically intimating that anyone who watches catalog U HD DVDs doesn't know what good HD looks like because they're so used to mediocre transfers, transfers that purportedly always look better on "blu." It was a casually insulting remark. It also doesn't follow that you weren't making a broad intimation: you basically said, if you're looking at U discs, you're used to mediocre quality. How is that a title-specific criticism?
And I think my track record shows I've perennially hewn close to the facts and been critical of both sides of the aisle. You can fling the "fanboyism" accusation but it doesn't stick.
) is that Sony STOPPED releasing sub-par product after being publically criticized and now ensures that proper masters are used at all times. Same with Disney. Same with Warner. Universal seems to be unaffected by criticism however and has continued with legacy masters despite being criticized.
