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- Robert Harris
Edwin-S, Vincent_P and others...
Here's where I'm coming from.
This isn't simply about a blu-ray disc.
This is about people.
We're dealing with probably dozens of people, beginning with those that go through the inventories to pull elements, to the vault people -- who somehow know where everything is around the world -- to those who inspect the elements that potentially will be master material, onward to those who do the mastering or harvesting of an image, and finally...
to the folks who take that image and, based upon what the studio has told them to do, creates what we see on DVD.
And this is precisely why I cannot give a project that has made its way through this long line of studio workers, and which may or may not have met a problematic fate with one individual...
a bad review.
While DNR, or whatever the programs might be called, can have a negative affect on the final look, the film has made its way along a long line, being handled respectfully and cautiously by many people.
And it is their work that I also respect.
What we are seeing is affected at the final point, which to my eye is unfortunate, but everything up to that point has been handled meticulously and sometimes, lovingly, by a group of people.
Somewhere there is a HD master of Patton without the DNR, and it is this "artifact" that I would welcome on Blu-Ray -- a system that has the capability to take an image -- grain and all -- and send it to a high end home theater.
Blu-Ray is here, and it is or can be -- in the right hands -- nirvana for home theater aficionados.
All that we need to do is treat it well and use it properly.
That is the trick.
I hope this helps in understanding where I'm coming from, and why I tend to look at the larger picture.
RAH
Here's where I'm coming from.
This isn't simply about a blu-ray disc.
This is about people.
We're dealing with probably dozens of people, beginning with those that go through the inventories to pull elements, to the vault people -- who somehow know where everything is around the world -- to those who inspect the elements that potentially will be master material, onward to those who do the mastering or harvesting of an image, and finally...
to the folks who take that image and, based upon what the studio has told them to do, creates what we see on DVD.
And this is precisely why I cannot give a project that has made its way through this long line of studio workers, and which may or may not have met a problematic fate with one individual...
a bad review.
While DNR, or whatever the programs might be called, can have a negative affect on the final look, the film has made its way along a long line, being handled respectfully and cautiously by many people.
And it is their work that I also respect.
What we are seeing is affected at the final point, which to my eye is unfortunate, but everything up to that point has been handled meticulously and sometimes, lovingly, by a group of people.
Somewhere there is a HD master of Patton without the DNR, and it is this "artifact" that I would welcome on Blu-Ray -- a system that has the capability to take an image -- grain and all -- and send it to a high end home theater.
Blu-Ray is here, and it is or can be -- in the right hands -- nirvana for home theater aficionados.
All that we need to do is treat it well and use it properly.
That is the trick.
I hope this helps in understanding where I'm coming from, and why I tend to look at the larger picture.
RAH