Recent content by DeeF

Ok, question. My television is a Pioneer Kuro Plasma from 2008, 1080p. I have a fairly recent Panasonic player, capable of playing the 4K disks. The Birds, looks brown and dark. The Birds blu-ray, looks better, on my television. Is this a matter of my television, or is the new 4K edition just...

One complaint. Getting a disk out of the package without damaging it is really a pain.

Just watched. Truly astounding. The audio alone! would justify the cost of the disk.

Great film, I've seen it in the theater many times. The Criterion blu-ray is too teal, something I didn't know about until I watched it tonight.

MatthewA says: "The posters show Doctor Dolittle riding a giraffe, but the finished film doesn't. Perhaps some kids 50 years ago felt gypped for that reason?" I guess you haven't watched the film, since there is a shot of Dolittle riding a giraffe. There are actually two in a row.

I kinda wish they would put the flat version on disk, too. Just for comparison sake, also, because I want it. But yeah, I'll be buying this.

It must be my equipment, thanks for replying!

My 200 ms audio delay really helps make the dialogue and singing very crisp. I thought it might throw some of the dialogue out of sync, but it doesn't.

Just chiming in. I received the new bluray package, and the movie does indeed look and sound glorious, as expected. I do have one question about it for you Mr. Harris. I recall you mentioning somewhere that during your restoration 20 years ago, you found the audio soundtrack (on the original...

It's the cyan channel. It's just too heavy. White shirts are white, but have blue shadows. Fox famously pushed blue, but this is too much. It isn't how the films were meant to look, not by a long shot.

I don't believe that. I don't believe that The King and I looked that way, overly teal or cyan, ever. I wasn't alive in 1956 when The King and I premiered, so I'm just going on instinct here. It's ugly, and wrong. The older transfer is superior, for color.

I'll chime in here. Chuck's extraordinary work on these recent film transfers is best analyzed by looking at all of them. Why are they all overly blue? I don't believe for one second that these all looked this way, originally. Something has happened, very recently, in the process of color-timing...

The DVD looks fine, like videotape circa 1991. The bluray looks very processed, saturated, overly contrasty, and blurry. It's a great show, get the DVD.

See my post, above.

Too bad Bruce.