I ordered the US set from Amazon and had it shipped to Norway. I asked if it was possible for them to ship to me in the first mail I sent. That was promptly ignored in the form mail I got as a reply, asking me for my address and the ID numbers of the discs. I sent them that and asked again, but...
The review over at blu-ray.com mentions that a section of Murder on the Links looks noticeably worse than the rest. Could you check to see if it looks like they used an upscale of the old video master?
Perhaps it was a prototype without safety precautions? :)
The whole plot with the magnet from the first episode was worse. Hell, there already are magnets in the header construction in mechanical HDs.
Do you think they'd be willing to ship replacements abroad? I asked about it in the e-mail address that was provided, but just got the form letter in return.
8192 x 3706 = 30359552 pixels. Each pixel is made up of a 24 bit colour code, so 30359552 * 24 = 728629248 bits per frame. 24 frames per second for 60 * 222 seconds gives us a total of 232928198000640 bits for the film. Divide by 8 to get 29116024750080 bytes and then divide that by 1024^4 to...
Network recently posted the following on their Facebook page regarding future releases of The Bill:
Sounds good. I was getting tired of the 13 episode sets.
The show may have been shot in 1080p25, but it'd have to be converted to 1080i50 for broadcast and UK BD release since neither support the 1080p25 format. My guess is they simply took the UK BD master and ran it through a cheap converter to get 1080i60 video to release in the US.
They had the...
Anyone got any comparisons between the 2.35:1 and 16:9 versions of the first film? Sucks that you got it on BD-25s, the Scandinavian BD-50 release looks a lot better. :)
So, as I understand it, the TV version is now on one single-sided BD? Hard to believe they could put over 5 hours of HD video on one BD without compromising the picture quality. Looks like they lost the rights to the introductions Bergman did to his films for SVT.
Haven't seen this anywhere so if anyone else is wondering.. The 6 videotaped episodes have been upscaled to 1080i60 meaning the fluid look of the field based video has been kept. Before the release, I had only seen references to the video being in 1080p so I thought they had done something...
The trilogy was originally planned as one theatrical film and two mini-series to be shown on TV. Because of the success of the first film, the minis were cut down from their original 3 hours versions and turned into films as well. Since they were originally TV productions, perhaps they were...
Am only on disc 2 yet, but I tried disc 4 in my Oppo BDP-83 and it started up just fine. Tried playing a couple of episodes as well and there were no problems.
I see. Thanks for your answer.
I just got the set today. The pilot version of Where is Everybody? with the sales pitch is in SD. Is the original film missing or something? They even did new 1080p transfers of the ads so it just seemed a bit weird. The rest of the set looks great though...
I noticed that clips from the Drew Carey Show and Liar's Club weren't carried over from the Definitive Edition DVDs of season 1. Are those two the only extras missing?
The films were made into a six part mini-series which apparently makes more sense as each of them are extended to 3 hours (two 90 min episodes). The first film's been cropped to 16:9 though and the extra scenes aren't included in 2.35:1 on any release. :(
I've ordered HE as well together with some other Criterions that are going OOP. I'm interested in seeing how it looks now. :) I have a plasma as well, the Panasonic 50" TX-P50V10.
True, but all the untouched film material is in 23.976p if the deinterlacer performs a pulldown on it. And most of them will detect it as such and do just that. However, the film-based effects seem to be mostly sped up or slowed down on video and the CGI added on top of everything is all...
The episodes of DS9 are a mixture of interlaced and progressive material. I wouldn't count that as representative for how an upscaled TZ episode would look like on BD.
I hope they do a correct upscaling and present the episodes in 1080i60 and not as some de-interlaced progressive encode. Where the upscalers in players and TVs mostly fail is when they're presented with interlaced material so having that done professionally could improve the picture quality...
If it's a standard feature of one of the endless H.264 profiles that's been enabled, an update could solve the problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264#Profiles - BD discs and players are supposed to adhere to the High Profile specification to avoid problems like this in the first place.
When you mention seeing a blocky grid it sounds to me like you're seeing the macroblocks that make up the image. Is that it? The only instances I can think of where you see this is if the bitrate of the encode is too low or if there's been an error in either the encoding or decoding. Howards End...
So it is actually in 1080p24 and not 1080i? Since it's a BBC production, I expected it to be in 1080i50 and converted to 1080i59.94 for Blu-ray. They did that with Torchwood.
Techniscope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - there's a bit about it here. Basically it uses 35 mm film, but each frame takes up half the area to save on film stock and you end up with a native image close to 2.35:1. Regarding grain, I assume it'd appear larger because of this. Techniscope is...