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Doesn't seem to be the first time Severin is applying grain removal to some of their transfers...

Directly comparing against the BFI Blu-ray on a calibrated setup with back-and-forth switching, it's clear that the BFI release has better encoded grain, which is also clearly stronger in some moments (especially during to the opening credits) and similar in others. It's possible that...

There's a lot of "US vs. Europe" and "NTSC vs. PAL" mentioned earlier that that is just not applicable to Blu-ray sources (but might have been applicable in the DVD era). I wasn't trying to imply anything else. I wasn't necessarily unaware of this detail, but was and am quite confident that I...

I feel compelled to respond here, since otherwise there's a lot of incorrect speculation going on. Indeed, there is absolutely no difference between Blu-ray video specs for European or North American display devices. Any mention of Europe vs. US, or PAL vs. NTSC does not make sense here, I'm...

Thanks! Allow me a very last comment. Pan's Labyrinth, Blu-ray edition from the Trilogia de Guillermo Del Toro. Cat. no. CC2686BD-3. Photo of my LG E6 OLED TV. Pretty much the first scene at 02:24. I didn't have to look far. If this is not really bad macroblocking, then I don't know what is...

Unfortunately it does not work like that when it comes to provable technical shortcomings; it's not an opinion, or, say, a discussion about religion. And I have tried to give ample evidence that it's not just my own opinion. I do understand that some people may not see these artifacts as...

Sure they do. But they also deserve constructive criticism where it is due, in the hope that their encoding process will improve. I agree, but my equipment is set up to minimize this kind of processing, and, since I know a thing about image processing and video compression or two, I'm very...

Please apologize my blunt European attitude, but I don't understand why a reasonable discussion about issues with some Criterion discs can't be had, even and maybe *especially* here. I initially only said that I'm disappointed by a particular answer from Lee Kline, who has provided the...

> Or maybe we are being epicly trolled. Look, you are entitled to your opinions > but you aren't going to find a lot of support for them here. > Pixel peeping obsession might find a foothold at other sites but we're not about that here. My intention is in no way to troll. And I'm...

Hi Sam, I'm afraid that the vast majority of Criterion's compression issues are not related to the materials they have to work with. From a source restoration point of view, they often do an absolutely amazing, amazing job, only to have the final product marred by at times sub-standard...

Great interview, kudos to everyone involved! However, I am extremely disappointed about Lee Kline's comment regarding compression. Criterion used to have and still has some major compression issues on certain titles, and these things are not difficult to see for a trained eye. Most recently...