Michel_Hafner
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or worse...FoxyMulder said:Very interesting considering how he used to occasionally put people down for their strong views ( including me ) ...
or worse...FoxyMulder said:Very interesting considering how he used to occasionally put people down for their strong views ( including me ) ...
I won't be boycotting them, for the most part I'm very happy, I do read all the reviews before buying, I don't take them as gospel, but I get an idea. The only purchase I've been really disappointed with is the colour on Cleopatra, but it looks like there's only five other people in the world that agree with me. Everything else I've bought I'm very happy with, even when they've overdone the DVNR. What else is there? On TV in the UK maybe half the 'scope films are zoomed to 16:9, & no one cares (I bet they're happy not to have the black bars). We're so fussy now, I can remember about 14 years ago being really chuffed when Fox finally released the VHS of Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, it was 4x3 & mono, but wow. I fell in love with The Egyptian watching on our tiny little b/w screen in the early 60's. It's the movies we love, & even when they don't get the BD quite right, it's usually still the best it's ever looked at home.Yorkshire said:Good question.
But we need to couple it with another. If we can do nothing (or nothing that works, at least), what do we do then?
Boycott? Give up on Blu-ray Disc? Buy them anyway, warts and all?
As you suggest, whatever response we choose, it'll doubtless be wrong in one way or another.
Steve W
Originally Posted by Anthony Neilson /t/320885/a-few-words-about-the-sting-in-blu-ray/60#post_3929687
I pointedly wasn't suggesting a boycott. That wouldn't do any good as far as I can see. But the fight against excessive DNR - and I stress excessive (I'm not an absolutist on this) - is nearly as important as the fight for OAR (in which Bill Hunt played a vital part). It's a matter of educating the public, albeit on a subtler point, as well as the studios and the media.
Hi Anthony - respect for your point of view. My personal view is that every Blu-ray Disc should be as close to the OCN as possible (obviously minus scratches, and things on the OCN not intended to be seen, etc).Anthony Neilson said:But the fight against excessive DNR - and I stress excessive (I'm not an absolutist on this) - is nearly as important as the fight for OAR (in which Bill Hunt played a vital part).
Originally Posted by Yorkshire /t/320885/a-few-words-about-the-sting-in-blu-ray/60#post_3929835
But my personal opinion is that this issue isn't even close to being as important as OAR.
If I had a choice between LoA or The Sting scrubbed cleaan in the OAR or perfect retention of grain stucture & cropped, I'd go for OAR every time without a moment's hesitation.
Steve W
Well, clearly it was a hypothetical.FoxyMulder said:I don't think it's a situation where you have one or the other...
Thanks, Adam, and I can't believe so much time and space, both past and present, was wasted on him. Caveat emptor, on the Internet.Adam Gregorich said:http://www.hometheaterforum.com/t/308191/while-we-wait-for-a-few-words-about-lawrence-of-arabia-in-blu-ray/150 start at post 165. He was a popular "insider" on another forum who implied he was associated Sony. He was recently outed as not really being an insider by an actual Sony executive.
My decision would be same, but it would be made "under protest".Yorkshire said:In that instance I'd take the DNR'd one in OAR rather than the 'film-like' cropped one.
I'm not sure the spotty youth in my local HMV would listen.Chas in CT said:My decision would be same, but it would be made "under protest".
I was trying to hide at VE, but you should have introduced yourself.zoetmb said:While the changes might be minor, if we go back to those A and B rolls and re-process the opticals digitally, aren't we, by definition, changing the film, because we're never going to get it exactly as it once was?
Isn't it more likely that the home video (even a "restored" home video) is taken from the interpositive?
P.S. Saw you standing in the door at Value Electronics last week. Sorry we didn't get a chance to talk. I wanted to thank you for all the great work you've done preserving our culture.
It's on sale today, so I clicked the button -- top right of this page, either "see it" or "$11.99" will work.Scott Calvert said:Sounds exactly like Out Of Africa.
Mr. Harris, this post of yours has been in my head for the last 10 days. It's a very strange response to the question of whether this release should be boycotted. You could have said:Robert Harris said:I hate to sound like Penton, but this is something that I'm best not to discuss at the moment.
RAH