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  1. EddieLarkin

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance -- in 4k UHD

    You can see the film grain that is on the source master in the new Blu-ray, which is capped in the same review as a point of comparison. What you see on the UHD is that same grain after it has been fed through a pipeline that is not remotely big enough to handle it. The result being its complete...
  2. EddieLarkin

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance -- in 4k UHD

    Those caps don't show evidence of DNR or grain management of any kind. It is simply very very poor disc compression. You can tell from how blocky and broken up the grain that remains has become. Juice on UHD, recently released by Paramount, was much the same. If David Mackenzie had encoded...
  3. EddieLarkin

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ 2001: a space odyssey -- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    On the new transfer, a fade has become a cut: https://twitter.com/shittydeath/status/1057091381624274944 https://twitter.com/shittydeath/status/1057091574411264000 Which is correct?
  4. EddieLarkin

    International Deep Red (4K Remaster) Arrow Video.

    It specifically states that the second Blu-ray featuring the shorter cut, and the soundtrack CD, are Limited Edition exclusives. A 1 disc version is forthcoming.
  5. EddieLarkin

    Aspect Ratio Documentation

    Using that logic we would still see the rounded corners on the right side during 2.55:1 projection since only the left is used to accommodate the soundtrack. I see no reason why a 2.66:1 presentation would have rounded corners, they'd just be masked off by the gate like all films, no?
  6. EddieLarkin

    Aspect Ratio Documentation

    The centerline is offset at 2.55:1 for THE ROBE, HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE and BENEATH THE TWELVE MILE REEF because they were composed at, and at least during production, intended to be screened at, 2.66:1.
  7. EddieLarkin

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Valentino -- in Blu-ray

    The BFI plan a two volume Blu-ray collection of some of Russell's TV work in February (the first of which includes The Debussy Film and Song of Summer, with the second including Isadora and Dante's Inferno, among others)...
  8. EddieLarkin

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Triumph of the Will -- in Blu-ray

    Unfortunately, I am not interested in seeing Triumph of the Will with enforced third party addenda. I understand the possible reasons Synapse might go down this route, whether it's a desire to only make an educational version of Triumph available to the public, undermining its inherent evil...
  9. EddieLarkin

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Triumph of the Will -- in Blu-ray

    What are these IDs? Are they translating on screen text? Or are they intended as educational supplements to the main feature?
  10. EddieLarkin

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ The Quiet Man (Region B) -- in Blu-ray

    Meaning Olive could have delivered a disc exactly like Eureka's back in 2013 (achieving a 4.5 from Mr. Harris instead of a 3.0) if they only understood how important the encoding stage is, and how apparently easy it is to foul it up.
  11. EddieLarkin

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ The Quiet Man (Region B) -- in Blu-ray

    Again, David himself has confirmed that the black levels have not been changed. They are not now inky, they always have been. It is Olive that has caused them to be milky on their release. As to whether or not simply encoding can change black levels, I'll defer again to the post from David I...
  12. EddieLarkin

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ The Quiet Man (Region B) -- in Blu-ray

    In fact, David himself confirms that the Eureka disc matches the master precisely in terms of black level here: http://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=11558083&postcount=113
  13. EddieLarkin

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ The Quiet Man (Region B) -- in Blu-ray

    David Mackenzie does the job of an authoring house by himself, and is by now definitely considered the best in the business. Going by his usual MO, I would absolutely expect it to be the case that in fact neither Eureka nor himself did anything to the master they received from the licencor...
  14. EddieLarkin

    Which Aspect Ratio(s) is your preference for "Shane" on Blu-ray?

    Actually, the US disc of African Queen is superior where it counts most: http://www.caps-a-holic.com/c.php?a=2&x=521&y=72&d1=2573&d2=2572&s1=23671&s2=23679&l=0&i=3&go=1
  15. EddieLarkin

    Which Aspect Ratio(s) is your preference for "Shane" on Blu-ray?

    I might double dip for the nicer package, additional extras and booklet, but it'd be for the later 1 disc edition. The second disc is completely useless to me.
  16. EddieLarkin

    The Civil War: A Film By Ken Burns (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    And in case there was any doubt, PBS have now acknowledged the problem and are planning replacement discs for next month: http://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=11495854&postcount=149
  17. EddieLarkin

    The Civil War: A Film By Ken Burns (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    The Blu-ray is too bright, incorrectly so, and differs in this way from the broadcast. You can easily see this by comparing the black bars: http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/screenshot.php?movieid=129243&position=18 to any other black bars from 4:3 material...
  18. EddieLarkin

    3D Put THE MASK on now!

    This may have been covered already, but how was the 1.66:1 ratio determined over 1.85:1, Bob?
  19. EddieLarkin

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ The Texas Chainsaw Massacre -- in Blu-ray

    On the US version the mono is a downmix and has an error near the end of the film (some of Sally's screams are missing and looped over with previous ones). The UK disc has the original mono and thus no error. The US disc also has some missing fades (replaced with cuts) to the opening, which are...
  20. EddieLarkin

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Faust (1926) -- in Blu-ray

    Comparisons appear to show that the Kino is squashed compared to the UK version, like Diary of a Lost Girl was: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film4/blu-ray_reviews_62_/faust_blu-ray.htm More importantly, grain and black levels appear superior on the UK too.
  21. EddieLarkin

    Aspect Ratio Documentation

    The questions have been answered, and you can find the answers in the brackets next to the questions (the third one makes this explicitly clear)! It's hardly a difficult question to answer anyway when you have the DP on hand to supervise the restoration*. You think whilst they were sat in the...
  22. EddieLarkin

    Hammer Horror and Special Effects Collections- coming from Warner 10/6/2015

    I too see nothing at all wrong with those caps, and point out that Gary Tooze has absolutely no idea what he's talking about when it comes to these sorts of things.
  23. EddieLarkin

    Aspect Ratio Documentation

    I would strongly suggest in the future that Central and Eastern European films be viewed before accusations are thrown at the labels putting them out in 1.37:1, as has previously been gone over in this thread, the rules that applied to the US, UK and much of Western Europe during this period...
  24. EddieLarkin

    Aspect Ratio Documentation

    I only heard that the film had been restored a few days ago and I was wondering if it would now finally be in the correct ratio. So very glad to hear that it will be Bob. Roll on its Blu-ray release so I can ditch my rubbish Olive BD!
  25. EddieLarkin

    Criterion Press Release: Dressed To Kill (Blu-ray)

    I'm really not sure how there is any confusion as to what happened here. Criterion were pretty clear in their statement: In other words, De Palma noticed the exact same problem with the transfer that most everyone else did, and asked for it to be fixed. Criterion never did. Hence, replacement...
  26. EddieLarkin

    HTF EXCLUSIVE! Twilight Time Nov/Dec 2015 Release Announcements

    I think the old Mysterious Island Blu-ray was already from a then fairly new 4K remaster.
  27. EddieLarkin

    Criterion Press Release: Dressed To Kill (Blu-ray)

    I still don't buy it. Did De Palma ask that this only be applied from the 21 minute mark? And that from that same point a chunk of extra information should be seen on the left? I don't doubt that he did want some distortion correcting, but it's clear that when Criterion attempted to achieve this...
  28. EddieLarkin

    Criterion Press Release: Dressed To Kill (Blu-ray)

    Everything else about the transfer, including the colour, looks great as far as I am concerned. I will happily replace my Arrow if Criterion fix this, and now that there is a very strong indication this is a technical error rather than a choice on Mr De Palma's part, I fully expect them to do so.
  29. EddieLarkin

    Criterion Press Release: Dressed To Kill (Blu-ray)

    That review pretty much confirms without a doubt there is a major problem here. The first 5 caps, all taken from the first 21 minutes (presumably the first reel) all look absolutely fine. Cap 6 onwards the squishing is completely obvious and likely indicates that when the transfer was performed...
  30. EddieLarkin

    Criterion Press Release: Dressed To Kill (Blu-ray)

    Screwy proportions isn't something one would ever really notice in isolation unless it was very extreme. I imagine anyone watching the Criterion would be pretty happy, but that does not mean it is correct. What is most telling is that in nearly all of the comparisons the Criterion shows a very...
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