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Originally Posted by
EnricoE 
honestly, what's the bullshit of doing windowboxing on the opening credits of movies? mgm did it on
thunderball and now they did again with moonraker.
studios should finally know that in the age of blu-ray or any other high-def medium is that we don't wanna see the old habbits.
here is a picture from the blu-ray.
as you can see this is quite a big windowboxing applied here. the top and bottom bars don't change, which leads to the assumption that the picture has been squezzed in.
from me to mgm/ua!!!
#update#
i just checked
goldfinger and
the world is not enough. while goldfinger is ok, the world is not enough also got some pillarboxing treatment.
it's not as bad as thunderball or moonraker but you can clearly see on the picture above that earth ain't round anymore. i gonna check the other bonds released on br too for this stupid pillarboxing.
On the Moonraker blu ray under special features - 007 - you can watch the titles with or without text. The one without appears to be normal in terms of the circles appearing as circles. However, the one with text seems to pillarbox the sides a bit. Not sure if this was new info or not, but thought I'd add it. I'm wondering if the textless version is from the DVD? I believe the same master was used for the UE DVD and the blu rays. Kind of puzzling anyway.
I'll probably have to check out TWINE here in a moment.
Side note MGM HD is showing 3 of the Moore bond films over Memorial Day weekend. The Spy Who Loved Me is one of the HD titles. I saw it on Bravo HD a few months back and it looks greatly improved in terms of picture from the UE DVD which had a lot of haloing and edge enhancement issues.
UPDATE - TWINE has the same feature as Moonraker to view the titles with or without text. They are different versions as well. One appears to be boxed on the sides while the other (without text) does not have missing info on the sides. The odd thing continues to be the fact that the boxed version on these 2 appear to be the squeezed versions. Quite curious.
Edited by Osato - 5/4/10 at 6:42pm
