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Yep. And here's a review of the recent French BD (with screenshots at the bottom) https://www.cinefaniac.fr/dvd/testdvd.php?i=1284 As I suspected: an ancient double-decade old master slapped on BD, riddled in scanner noise with detail looking akin to 'mush'.... Low-pass filtered from Rimini...

So are Dukes' Seven Sinners and The Shepherd of the Hills new masters, or similar to that of the SD-looking abortion overseas?

And then have it be vehemently defended by a certain someone....

Looks like it's coming this September, per: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=328783 4K restoration trailer from Park Circus:

Well, I guess the chances are even more slim now with the whole Disney annexing/acquisition... It's a shame none of the indie labels like Criterion, Twilight Time, Olive, Kino, or even Arrow thought about licensing/releasing it in recent years -- as Fox *did* do a new 4K DCP sometime around...

The blu-ray logo means nothing. Flip it over and look at the texture. It's a burned disc. Take a photo of it and post it here.

Good ol' erroneous information.

With a regular old master?

Looks an old Universal master with the usual symptoms: DNR...

It is -- but I haven't seen any screencaps/how the compression's handled. Might be worth the punt if you find it cheap.

Not sure what your asking, but here's the link.

It's very minicsule and I doubt you'd notice unless you watch/pause BDs on your PC like me. Personally, I can't abide discs with poor authoring/compression jobs.

It's not. I purchased it for a total of ~$30 USD - and it arrived via DHL 3 days later. Yes, even during the pandemic.

Terpning is good, but I'm a Robert McGinnis guy myself. Both are still alive to my knowledge and just as sharp as they were in their wonder years.

I can say without reservation the Japanese BD release is the best in the world at this current juncture, as all the other European BDs are littered with banding / artifacting due to anemic / poorly optimized encodes. (Yes - even the French BD which has a hellaciously low bitrate.) The JP BD is...

"Glenn" must love his DNR!

It's coming out in France this July; assumingly sourced from the 2001 DVD master.

Powerhouse Films will still be licensing and culling Fox's catalog.

"A bit" ?

So someone posted caps of the new Kino disc and am a bit befuddled on where this quote stems from: Do we have a source for that anywhere? I didn't see it in their initial presser and after looking at them side by side it's clearly taken from same DVD master, though without the DNR as seen on...

Precisely correct. It's now pick your poision as far as TCAT goes. What's more is, the untold amount of DNR that's utterly destroyed what could've been a reference quality VV transfer, has only helped but make the old BD that much better. This is all the more sad, really.... when you find...

It already had when they released it; considering they used the same exact ancient telecine master recycled from the DVD release.

You could the say same about this site -- choosing to live in denial and being completely ignorant of the facts that have come to light about this BD: being one of the most overwhelming scrub jobs of the decade. And the fact that people on here seem to think "lossless" screenshots are snakeoil...

If only!

Sorry -- meant to say The Ten Commandments (always get them mixed up). In ANY event -- to compound the issue at hand even more -- why they felt the need to add any amount of DNR here (let alone the shocking amount ) is bewildering; VistaVision has a low-grain amount to begin with! There's...

https://i.slow.pics/P0l5cmmw.png This might be the most grotesque amount of DNR I've seen on the format, up there with Predator, et al. What makes it worse? We could've had something very similar to Ben-Hur had they left the grain "untouched" and not prepped for display at Madame Tussauds.

The degradation to the picture is insane here. How any reputable studio in 2020 could put out something like this monstrosity is beyond me. There's actually DNR artifacts/ringing in certain scenes if you look close enough. "Paramount Presents - how to ruin a VistaVision transfer" is what they...

Can you elaborate? Won at what exactly? "Shitposting"?

Completely irrelevant to the topic at hand/derailing the thread with nothing constructive. Good job I guess?

I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at. You do realize those lossless screenshots don't lie, right? Especially when it comes to caps-a-holic's software... What you see is a like-for-like of what's on your BD disc. Now whether or not you notice the anomalies when viewing in motion is a...