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For that matter how do you know if the release print you see in the local multi-plex matches the answer print approved by the director? The answer is you don’t, and if you don’t live in a big city like New York or LA, it probably doesn’t exactly match. The best release prints are saved for the...

Yes DVD being digital, and having the ability to use component or even now digital connections to the display device is surely a better representation of the original source than analog laserdisc or VHS before it. However it is still in the NTSC (at least in countries that use that format)...

Again we are talking about not just the limitations of analog NTSC, (and again we are talking about the difference between an analog version of a movie and a digital version) but also the equipment used convert the film to a video format. The first director approved version of Dracula was an...

Blu-ray (IE HDTV) is capable of reproducing a much wider range of colors with much greater accuracy than the old NTSC system. There is a joke among people who prepare films for broadcast. They claim that NTSC stands for Never The Same Color twice. So yes it is possible that the older video...

I believe he is referring to the earlier analog laserdisc version of Dracula. It seems to have been the reference point for later DVD incarnation. Doug

Well I don't know about you, but I can see the grain of the film. If you can see the grain, you are seeing more or less the full resolution that the film has to offer. Doug

I think I was the one that brought up the Digital Video Essentials. But I wasn't slamming this transfer at all. I think this is the best this film has ever looked. You are right. You can't calibrate with one player and expect that calibration to work with another. Each player has its own...

Determining the resolution of a film transfered to video requires a full screen resolution chart. As there is no full screen resolution chart anywhere in Dracula, saying that it is SD resolution is kind of like saying that grass is suddenly growing on the far side of the moon. Dracula on...

Maybe the subtleties of the subdued color didn't come across well in NTSC. It's one of the reasons that the chroma information is eliminated from most B&W presentations on NTSC, you end up with a fair amount of chroma noise in B&W if you don't. Maybe the chroma noise was unacceptable in with a...

Isn't it just possible that on NTSC equipment Mr. Coppola didn't like the way the original color timing looked, so he had it changed to be more palatable on the limited play back ability of said equipment? And now that the high def displays are more faithful, the original color timing would now...

Just because he is taking a direct screen capture from the BD doesn't mean that software is set up to accurately represent what is on that disc. Also screen captures in any form are by definition inaccurate because they aren't moving. As I said the writing is very faint, and if it were just...

Why would someone who has seen the answer print, and supervised the new version, lie about it? Doug

This sounds about like what I'm seeing as well. The writing is faint, but there. Doug

A buddy of mine said they still have enough for a few more weeks. Episodic TV shows like With out a Trace and ER are normally several months ahead of the air dates of the episode being shot. At least this early in the season, when they get to March they sometimes have to run a rerun because the...

Yeah I have some friends that work on a tv series, they aren't out of scripts yet, but it's getting pretty thin. My guess is that if its not over yet, it probably won't be until the producers run out of scripts. Doug

Nice! You should write down all your stories. Glad to see the strike is over and you can get to work. Has anyone heard if the writer's strike is over? Doug

Very cool Dave, what do you do? Doug

You maybe right that the word "nothing" was a bit strong. What I was trying to say is that I'm seeing detail on my system that I'm not seeing in these captures. I was also trying to say that the blu-ray is defiantly darker than the superbit DVD. To be fair I don't have the superbit version of...

Dave, I don't have the ability to do screen captures from BD and honestly I think screen captures have very little value. All I'm saying is that the words are visible, very dark, but visible on my system. I'm not seeing the words at all in these screen captures. Now it maybe because when...

Not contradictory at all. The Blu-ray is defiantly darker than the SuperBit DVD, but its not as dark on my display as what I'm seeing in these screen captures. I can actually see the words of the diary on my system where you can't see them at all in the screen capture. Doug

Dave, My computer monitor is calibrated using a Gretag-Macbeth colorimeter, so I know that it is accurately reproducing neutral grey, the black levels and the white levels are all set accurately. My HD DVD has been calibrated using the Digital Video Essentials test signals. I also used a...

Again Dave I have to say that these captures look nothing like the Blu-ray that I'm looking at on my system. They don't accurately represent what I'm seeing at all. Doug

The SD screen capture actually looks more like what I'm seeing on the blu-ray. The words on the left side of the screen are just visible, very subtle. Doug

I find it interesting that some of us seem to be seeing very different things with this release. Some of us are having trouble reading the text from the various diaries and some aren't. I for one have no trouble seeing the text. I have my display calibrated using the Digital Video...

I'm thinking that what people are seeing around the candle flames may have more to do with the filters used on the cameras than the transfer or the digital encoding. Doug

I don't think the new version of Dracula is desaturated at all. It's just not over saturated. I'm sorry where are people seeing artifacts and halos? I'm not seeing them. Doug

Sorry that will be my last comment about Star Wars......now lets argue about Dracula! :D Doug

If you look at the link you provided, it states that the source is the Art of Star Wars book. All of the Art of books, Star Wars, Empire, Jedi, had the scripts edited to match the final films. If that is the source of the script on that site (and that site says that it is) then that is NOT the...

Agreed. There are just some people who think it's horrible that George Lucas messed with their childhood. :confused: I find that attitude baffling. Doug

I know my memory is slipping cause I constantly have to write down the "printer" numbers when I'm making color changes to a project. :D Doug