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Yes indeed, there are clearly other motivations at work here, Mr. Created An Account Just To Say That.

I just went and played both of them again in my home theatre on my RS2000/Oppo 205 combo, and they both still look wonderful. So out of curiosity, I tried them out on the Blu-ray drive in my old laptop, and they have almost a sepia tone on that display -- which ironically enough, isn't...

That was me, and since I've never watched any previous iterations, I have no frame of reference of any kind. Well, that's not quite fair -- I've seen plenty of Tony Scott films from the era. I don't doubt what you're saying about the timing on Top Gun, but I don't think that they were all...

That's exactly why memory is a tricky bastard!

I think that people tend to conflate the totality of their experiences with individual details. They're confusing the part with the whole. In that case, they're melding decades of television and VHS viewings, and blending it into one whole that never existed. Now, I can vividly remember the...

And yet that's one of the films on which Kende supervised the grade. So back to my main point, all a reviewer can do is makes subjective judgement based on the best available information.

That needs highlighting! Thank you.

Agreed, and perhaps I shouldn't have used a UHD as an example, but that just happened to be the other thing that I watched last weekend. But I did read people arguing about its color timing, not just the dynamic range. In any event, I'd still argue that their real frame of reference isn't...

That's all fine in the abstract, and I understand what you're going for, but in practice, what you would hope for isn't within the realm of possibility regardless of education and calibration. Reviewing is indeed a subjective process, but it can't be anything else. How exactly can anyone...

Glenn's not an A/V guy, and he doesn't need to be. He's not the one to read if you're looking for accurate assessment of audio and video quality on a disc. You read Glenn when you want a wealth of historical information on the production, distribution, promotion, and other fascinating minutiae...

Had some fun times chatting with him at VSDA conventions back in the Nineties.

"Big fat mono" was indeed another one of these phrases, but in this case, I was referring to Gary Reber. And he did actually copyright his invented word "holosonic." But yes, Doug Pratt was da bomb!

Nope, farther back than that. We're talking the LD era.

You're bringing back memories of a certain publication, with a publisher/editor who was prone to using the same stock phrases, over and over again: "Seventies filmmaking" "Undistinguished mono" "Not using the full palette available to filmmakers" And many, many more, including one portmanteau...

I usually don't copy anything from the audio/video sections of older reviews, but I'm more than guilty of repeating the same stock phrases no matter how hard that I try not to! What I do copy is specific disc details, especially when it's the same label. For example, I'm currently working on an...

I usually don't copy audio/video comments, but I'm more than guilty of repeating some of my stock phrases anyway! On the other hand, I do copy disc descriptions when they're similar, and from the same manufacturer. For instance, I'm working on an Umbrella "Sunburnt Screens" title right now, so...

Wait, what? "Gorgeous color saturation"? Youse gotta be careful when you copy/paste from one of your own older reviews.

Anatomy looks gorgeous, and should be a benchmark for how black-and-white films from that era are handled. Even the HDR grade nudged the contrast gently, without exaggerating anything too much. I've had the other two sitting in my inbox untouched for months now. I'm never going to catch up.

He at least reads some of them. Further down, he has not issues whatsoever with The Godfather, just noting that Doblu reported on some "frozen grain," but that he didn't see it. So again, this is a complicated issue. RAH is absolutely correct to point out the DNR/fake grain issue, but in the...

I probably put more effort than most into gleaning as much information about the original cinematography as I can, even going so far as to track down some cinematographers and ask them questions directly, and I still make mistakes, and miss things. I'm sure that I've been fooled by fakery at...

I've also covered many discs where there was quite a bit of noise visible, especially during the darker scenes, only to read another review later that just talked about grain. Doesn't mean that the other person was "wrong" per se, just that they couldn't see it as clearly on a flat panel. Which...

Whether or not it can be visible, and whether or not it will be visible, are two very different things. You just have a harder time not noticing in projection, especially with a native 4K projector and a large enough screen. I've had many instances when I've been writing about issues with...

To be perfectly clear, I'm not speaking out against it; just saying that I'm happy not to feel obligated to buy it anymore. I'm sure that it looks great for what it is. Just doesn't make it worth the money for me, as I have so damned many other things on which to spend the money that I don't...

So as dumb as this may sound, it's almost a relief to be able to give this one a pass. I'm so overwhelmed right now with the death of physical media, that I just can't keep up with releases that I want anymore. There's too much. I'll keep my order(s) up for the Leones, and call it a day.