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...
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.
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.
Here's Anna before "Getting to Know You" in the gray-and-white pinstripe dress with the black bowtie. The dress resolved very well in this older transfer.
I'm trying to find captures from my transfer which match the captures made earlier in this thread.
Here's one of Anna, singing "Hello, Young Lovers" in the gray dress. It's the same dress she wears throughout the opening of the film, although she has removed her hat and jacket. The dress is...
I have a 720p version of The King and I, which I got 3 years ago. I'm posting a photo, which I haven't done before, so if it doesn't work, don't get crazy on me.
This version seems to be superior, in every way except resolution, to the newest bluray. Something went wrong with the recent transfer.
The DTS Master Audio track can be heard, but it is filled with digital noise, crackling, and break-up. You have to turn on PCM to actually hear the track. I don't know if this is my system or what, but I've never experienced this with another disk, only this one.
I have a brand new Panasonic player, the 220, and was hoping it would correct the audio problems I have experienced with this disk set (the DTS Master Audio will not play correctly).
Nope. Still the same problem.
Sadly, I'd be very surprised to see Porgy and Bess, on BD or DVD. Goldwyn's last film, but I'm not sure the rights are with the Goldwyn library. Porgy and Bess is my personal "holy grail" movie, to see it properly represented on home video.
I love The Searchers, possibly my favorite movie. I watch the Bluray a lot, several times a year. The movie never disappoints me. I was just pointing out that the color is overly saturated with yellow on this latest transfer. It doesn't ruin my enjoyment of the film, but it might be nice to see...
In the DVDBeaver comparison of Gone with the Wind, it's very easy to see the "yellowing" at Warners. It's the middle picture, the 4-dvd set of Gone with the Wind, that is overly yellow. It was corrected somewhat for the Bluray, although perhaps not enough...
Love Pillow Talk! I watched the BD, and I felt like I had never seen the film before! Thanks for the info on the poor state of the source material. Everyone should buy this disk, now!
That is the COOLEST thing I've read today!
Some of my favorite movie experiences were at teenage parties, the Marx Brothers and The Maltese Falcon, projected onto a wall in the living room.
The thing that's different now is that home theater is a real viable option, much more than it has been in the past. There are movies which are released in the theaters and bluray simultaneously, and I think this trend will continue. And certainly there's no reason to go to Casablanca, poorly...
But those new movies could simply be released on bluray from Day 1, and people can buy them (or rent them) for a fraction of the cost of going to the theater, and probably they'll get a better presentation. Plus better food. And a close bathroom.
I really think it's the end. Except for festivals...
I'm concerned about a larger issue here. Isn't this signaling the end of projected movies in the theater? If everybody owns Casablanca on a perfect bluray, why pay money to see it in an inferior presentation in a theater, costing real money?
Except for some special events, I don't think movies...