I think people can obviously do what they want, and prefer what they prefer, especially in cases where there aren't many alternatives. But we need to be honest about what has been done and how this isn't normal (as in : those results aren't part of the norm of remasters and restorations, and are...
As it's already been discussed in the past on this board :
* if people can simply "make up their own minds" with a release, why bothering providing any feedback about it ?
* the video provides factual data analyzing the result way beyond what people would do, and what even several pro reviewers...
It seems fitting considering what has been done on those movies :D , but as I already explained elsewhere : the guy is French, doesn't like how he sounds in English, and thus reluctantly chose to rely on an AI voice instead.
Well, of course there are worst things in the world nowaways and possibly in one's life, but again, should it prevent debatable presentations to be debated ? Not every discussion, even if long and passionate, means people are "angry" about it. I have 17 releases to review at the moment, they...
I'm still as bothered as every time before you resorted to such a defeatist approach. So what, every problematic release should be approached positively anyway because pointing out its issues isn't going to change anything anyway ? What good does it do to point out the latest To Catch A Thief's...
It might be an English conjugation lost on me, but as I read it, it doesn't fit a mission statement saying "the way the original creator(s) of that particular film intended". It'd fit if it was saying "the way the original creator(s) of that particular film intend(s) at any given moment.", thus...
There has been, however, an ongoing underlying issue with some labs having such an intense color-signature, applied on so many of their works in a systemic manner, that it becomes intrusive in an obviously inaccurate way (because how many movies actually share such a close look ?). That's what...
As already explained before, the voice is AI generated because the guy is French (see here - but I also pics of his Dolby/Pathé/Hiventy conference at Lyon in 2023 :
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and didn't like how he sounded in English.
I understand feeling the intro is overselling it when it starts by rehashing public...
Scores, which are routinely used (including here) as summaries for the overall impression left by the picture and the sound, are indeed a blend of how it rates for the reviewer, and how it rates within the given format, and how it rates for the related movie compared to how it "should" look...
And I'm fairly certain that's the kind of look Robert had in mind when saying what he'd take over what's being offered. ;)
My precision was more about how misusing the proper term shouldn't cloud what even such a "recent" movie could gain from newly (and properly) performed work. For instance...
Thanks for the example. Surprised by it, as there was nothing to me setting the movie's remaster look aside (looks like a 4K 35mm-sourced master to me, like plenty others), but thanks anyway.
I thought that might the case for it, and that's usually the best argument (to me) there could be, but...
The caps are weird, as they're said to be untouched but they're 1602 x 1200 to begin with (even if cropped to remove the side black bars, they should be 14xx x 1080). May I ask how those grabs were captured ?
They're extremely smooth, there's not an ounce of grain on any of those HD caps. Eg...
None of this is being overlooked by those unhappy with the results. We're just unhappy with the results, because it's perceived to be a problem that James Cameron believes movies shot on 35mm to require such intrusive artificial treatments to look good, in a world where hundreds of...
Oh yes, my bad, in this respect, that's EXACTLY what HT sites are providing. There are enough very good remasters/restorations getting released to fill 5 times one's free time anyway.
I still think there is some leeway, and in a sense, the Patton flashback story tends to credit this. But it's...
He wrote that the original Gangs of New York disc was "Extremely Highly NOT Recommended" and suggested for a re-call, while he wrote he "absolutely" liked the 2008 Patton disc and recommended it "without a doubt".
If I had a French address to post my complaints to Fox, I'd done so, but by email...
Which is a shame because only a minority of it is about Patton. :)
I read your remarks and their chronology then, and sincerely, all the best to those here who acknowledged the shortcomings of this presentation and did what they could to have them alleviated later on. You were writing earlier...
See, that's where this might not be willingly hyperbolic but actually is. There are several encoding houses who do stellar works on a routine basis and whose work I can only command (Fidelity in Motion are famous for that, but they're not the only one), and then, there's whoever Studio Canal are...
It's the AI-type upscale that generates those. It basically tries to turn noise into signal on select part of the frame, which is why it gives such a recognizable type of picture, which you wouldn't get if only using traditionnal sharpening and grain management filters.
It's like non-optimal...
There's a distinction to be had between "no HDR" and "limited use of HDR", as it can make technical and/or aesthetical sense to be in the 2nd category.
However, if these heat maps are accurate, it'd fit Aliens remaster re-using the 2010 2K master and only being able to do a fraction of what HDR...
I think that's where we disagree, ultimately. To me, there's the matter of how one wants it to look and how, objectively, from a "remastered in 4k from the OCN", it looks.
If one filmmaker wants the movie to be looking what would get a negative consensus, it's his choice, but it still means it...
There's no passive agressive comment, only my surprise as a long time reader of someone very knowledgeable, who worked on some of the most acclaimed restorations, and read him give a pass at such a result in a way inconsistant with pretty much everything I read from him before.
There are way...
The issue even with this is that it can make people wonder how this "perfect score" of a disc can look so plasticky and obviously filtered. As best, it makes the reviewer looking inconstant (giving an obviously manipulated master a bad score but giving an other obviously manipulated master a...
It also looks like it has the same ghosting issues that on the BD, but on top of that, the encode is such a mess the Paramount Presents BD has a better grain patten.
Without this issue, I wouldn't have guessed either that at least part of the authoring could be so similar, but it looks like it can be (and that some are abusing it to enforce a regional compartimentation that isn't supposed to exist anymore).
The equivalent for UHD of the BDA still has to issue an official statement as to whether these discs are compliant with the UHD white-paper specs, because UHD definitely isn't supposed to be locked in such a manner, but several UHDs are. While the 1st ones looked to potentially be mistakes (UHD...