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  1. johnSM

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    Well that's good news about it not being constant. Very strange though, as you say. I too will be viewing on a projection setup (110") so any oddities will stand out more than usual. Glad to hear Raiders is free of this however, since it's my fav of the series by far. Doesn't look like aliasing...
  2. johnSM

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    I've never seen this before, and I've done a few Bluray screengrabs recently. Are Temple and Crusade meant to be new transfers, or are they re-purposed from the HD masters that were used for the original DVD sets, and HD broadcasts? I know Lucasfilm re-used their old 2004 HD transfers for their...
  3. johnSM

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    Viewed at 1920 x 1080 I can see what you're referring too - looks to me like some kind of digital processing filter around high contrast areas, as you say. What's the exact lineage of these screen caps please?
  4. johnSM

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    Those grabs look fantastic - far better than when I saw the films 'for real' in a trilogy showing 5/6 years back at The Prince Charles cinema, London. What exactly are we looking for here? Without wishing to appear argumentative, if one is always looking for flaws, one will find them. And it...
  5. johnSM

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    Damn that's a shame (and a bit of a missed opportunity to say the least?!) I was hoping to see those other vintage docs again, and finally have everything in one set. Still having the films in great HD quality is the main thing, but (as seems to be the case with Lucasfilm these days) it could...
  6. johnSM

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but not 100% sure from the details posted on Amazon.co.uk and other sites. Is the only vintage documentary on the bluray set the Making of Raiders of the Lost Ark? I know they made two others for Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade which I loved seeing in...
  7. johnSM

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    I din't think it's the screen grabs that are coming off as pathetic here...... But obviously you know far better than Spielberg himself what Raiders should look like in HD. I think the grabs look great, and I've owned all the prior releases in a variety of formats, and seen it on the big...
  8. johnSM

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    Production photos taken from the making of the film, present in innumerable books, film mags, story of LPs and what have you, all look very similar to the new bluray screen caps in terms of colour balance. Pretty sure this is how it's meant to look, and I do remember it having a very 'bronzed'...
  9. johnSM

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    I prefer the new bluray colour palette too, if those caps are indeed representative of the final product. The DVD grabs on the right look strangely muted and too blue in many shots. The bluray caps appear rich and organic looking, like many of the film stills one can find of the film in books...
  10. johnSM

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    What's the source of that image containing the aliasing? Looks like a DVD still to me...?
  11. johnSM

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    Is this from an illegal bluray rip? If not and you have an advance screener and did it yourself, what settings/software were used to squash it down to 9GB you mention? Thanks.
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