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Hi Brent! From what I've been viewing, SD Blu-ray port overs are fundamentally inferior to their DVD counterparts, in that for anything other than HD resolutions, Blu-ray has been designed to only accept as interlaced, rather than progressive video! In my view, it's almost as bad as...

Note: At the time I made the above post, I had a then unidentified video driver issue, which caused all 4 edges of THE WIZARD OF OZ (1925) Blu-ray Screenshot to be cut off in an overscan-like fashion, in my prior Screenshot post! My Windows 10 November Upgrade build that I performed earlier...

Late last night, I was finally able to get a read on the frame rate on The Wizard Of Oz "Additional Special Features" Blu-ray Disc. Well...sort of! After a bit of tricky navigating using the MediaInfo Tree Interface, the only way I could obtain a frame rate was by selecting my BD Drive, and...

Hi Will! Thanks for the information. I agree THE WIZARD OF OZ 1925 silent feature is about the worst example of stair-stepping on what for you, would be the second Blu-ray Disc! Since I've only noticed this effect on some of that disc's content (Thank goodness!), I do wonder whether that...

Hi Brian! Thanks, but I already attempted that, along with the other view options, to no avail! :P Outside of getting a new Blu-ray Player, I think I'm simply stuck with not being able to pull frame rates from BD based video! It's not the end of the world by any stretch, but it is a bit...

Hi Will! I've tried "properties" and while I can get the fps for at least some of the DVD based VOB video files, I've had zero success when attempting to do the the same with Blu-ray based m2ts video files--These simply come up blank! Basically, I wanted the frame rates for both DVD and...

All of the Oz silents (Plus The Wizard Of Oz 1933 animated short) on the 2005 (Disc 3) and 2009 (Disc 2) DVDs read 29 fps. CHEERS! :) UPDATE: OK, for some annoying reason, when I just attempted to double check the fps for the *2009 DVD, I found that I can't presently get the fps from the...

Hi Brian! Thank you very much for your kind tip! Unfortunately, for whatever reason, it isn't providing the frames per second stat, that I desire for Blu-ray based m2ts video files. Here's a screenshot, which I'm hoping might provide some clues: What I'm attempting to do is compare...

Hi Will! I have a question regarding Blu-ray fps: Apart from documentation, how can fps for Blu-ray based media be determined? I ask this because neither our Samsung Blu-ray Player, nor any of my Blu-ray based software kicks up that particular bit of information. Neither do the mts BD...

Hi David! In my opinion, it's bad enough that Mill Creek crams too much onto their DVD releases. Thankfully, this hasn't extended to their Blu-ray releases--That I know of! From what little I've seen, SD material on Blu-ray media is just a really bad idea! My screenshot comparisons of the...

Hi Koroush! I would imagine that some sort of upscaling was performed to fill up the screen to 1.37:1 (Or thereabouts!), so to speak. In any case, I agree that the upscaling on the Blu-ray version does look pretty lousy, to the point that I now really don't want to part with the DVD version...

Hi Brent! Having just received THE WIZARD OF OZ 75TH ANNIVERSARY 5 Disc set, I've done comparative screenshots from the 1925 Silent Feature from my Blu-ray and DVD sets. I'm afraid that in the former, the stairstepping is all too evident, at least to my eyes! The following two screenshots...

Hi Stephen! I'm not saying the above is right or wrong. However, I do have a question. Assuming that all DVD's are interlaced (i), then how come some DVD sets list various titles within them as 480i and 480p? If DVD titles are always interlaced, shouldn't they all be listed as 480i, or at...

It seems to me the decision to not do 1080p scans for the silents may have been influenced by the desire to fit these and the DREAMER OF OZ on one Blu-ray Disc. As much as I enjoyed the 3 part Documentary MGM: WHEN THE LION ROARS when I viewed it on TCM a few years back, since it's already...

Hi Brent! Wow, that review of the 1925 version of THE WIZARD OF OZ by Carl Bennett is about as scathing as it gets! The first paragraph alone seems to run counter to Silent Era's philosophy of preservation, but then perhaps, it is just that kind of Film? CHEERS! :) Tony

Considering that I've just ordered THE WIZARD OF OZ 75TH ANNIVERSARY LIMITED COLLECTOR'S EDITION set, it's a relief knowing the 480i Transfers can still be upconverted on Blu-ray Disc, though it's too bad that at least the silent films didn't get a fresh HD scan! It appears to me it's that...