CONFIRMED: Alien films coming in 2010 to Blu-ray (1 Viewer)

[Scott D S]

Originally Posted by RobertR

But it also makes me angry about the stuff that wasn't done right.

 

 

To what are you referring, exactly?

 

[Absolution]

Originally Posted by Scott D S



 

To what are you referring, exactly?

Predator is a pretty good example of it done wrong, horribly horribly wrong.

 

[genomovie]

Absolution,

What's God got to do with it.

 

[RobertR]

Originally Posted by Absolution




Predator is a pretty good example of it done wrong, horribly horribly wrong.

And Patton. When I think of how it could have looked...

 

[Scott D S]

Originally Posted by Absolution

 

As for these screencaps... WOW!!!!!

 

[RobertR]

Here's an Alien screenshot:

 

 

[Nelson Au]

Oh, that blood looks fake!

 

The caps look great!

 

[RickardL]

Should I worry about cropping on the sides?

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompare2/alien/0.5.38_OldR1.jpg

vs

http://hcc.techradar.com/files/hcc_content/software/Alien03.jpg

 

[robbbb1138]

Originally Posted by RickardL

Your first link is only going to the main page at DVD Beaver.
 

 

[Nelson Au]

I copied and pasted Rickard's link and it worked, it showed a screen cap from Alien. What I am not clear on is what I'm looking at. I believe the DVD Beaver cap is the DVD and the second link is the BD. The BD is cropped a little closer then the DVD. So I think Rickard's question is which is the proper framing.

 

[RobertR]

The BD is also slightly cropped compared to the DVHS:



 

 

So two out of three says the BD is cropped. I'm not worried about it, though.

 

[robbbb1138]

I'll hold out hope that someone else is going on with the screen caps from the BD. Otherwise, ugh...

 

[RickardL]

Originally Posted by Nelson Au

I copied and pasted Rickard's link and it worked, it showed a screen cap from Alien. What I am not clear on is what I'm looking at. I believe the DVD Beaver cap is the DVD and the second link is the BD. The BD is cropped a little closer then the DVD. So I think Rickard's question is which is the proper framing.

Correct. The first screen cap is from the first R1 SD DVD and the second from the upcoming BD as shown on the home cinema choice site.

And yes, I do wonder what the correct framing is. It is kind of confusing, the first R1 and R2,R4 SD "Legacy" look the same in terms of framing but the later R1 SD "Quadroligy" looks cropped and quite a lot like the new BD capture's framing.

Look at the DVD caps at http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompare2/alien.htm and the BD caps http://hcc.techradar.com/playback/coming-soon/blu-ray-screenshot-gallery-alien-anthology-alien-06-09-10.

 

Edit: For those who had trouble with the links, I made a rough illustration of the BD framing according to the screen cap.

 

[cafink]

Are those two screenshots from the exact same frame? Is the camera moving during that shot?

 

[Steve Christou]

That is odd. I took this shot from the Quadrilogy set a few years ago. I have both region 1 and 2 sets but can't remember which one I used for capture.

 

 



 

 

[robbbb1138]

Originally Posted by cafink

Are those two screenshots from the exact same frame? Is the camera moving during that shot?

I'm looking at the dark edge of the cover to Kane's cryo freezer and it's not in the exact same place in both screen caps. All of the other reference points on the freezers look the same though, so maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me...
 

 

[RickardL]

Not sure about the exact frame but I had a look at my Quad copy and the camera is not moving at this point and the scene fades almost immediately after this.

 

Originally Posted by cafink

Are those two screenshots from the exact same frame? Is the camera moving during that shot?

 

[RickardL]

I have the R1 Quad set and the framing there is similar to the BD cap at home cinema choice.

When the Director's Cut was released theatrically, I remember watching for the framing of this scene because of the cropping I had seen at dvdbeaver but I can't recall how it looked... [/url]

That is odd. I took this shot from the Quadrilogy set a few years ago. I have both region 1 and 2 sets but can't remember which one I used for capture.

 

 

 

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[RickardL]

Regarding Aliens... the caps look a lot better!

The BD is sometimes reframed. In this scene, it shows more information at the bottom and less information at the top. In others, it might be the other way around.

First Legacy, then Quad and lastly BD.

 

[RickardL]

Here are more comparisons...

Aliens http://www.zonadvd.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=1143

Alien http://www.zonadvd.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=1142

 

Edit: a note of caution: the BD caps for Aliens seems to have levels between 0-255 but the dvd caps seem to have video levels 16-235

which is why there is such difference. But the Alien caps seem to have the same levels.