If you haven't received it yet, Amazon should give you the lowest price.classicmovieguy said:I ordered over the weekend when Amazon's price was $15.83 - should have waited and saved a few pennies... :/
If you haven't received it yet, Amazon should give you the lowest price.classicmovieguy said:I ordered over the weekend when Amazon's price was $15.83 - should have waited and saved a few pennies... :/
Will Krupp said:Until you are at least willing to LOOK at the Universal disc though, I'm not sure your conclusion that the Criterion is automatically "better" holds any weight.
FoxyMulder said:I'm not going to buy the same title twice, lend me your copy Will and i'll take a look.
Will Krupp said:Hell, I'll BUY YA' ONE!!
Mike Frezon said:Only $12.99 at amazon right now!
FoxyMulder said:Okay, i'll do an HD screencap comparison if you want to buy me one, would you like my address.
Will Krupp said:All right, smartypants....It's on its way!
FoxyMulder said:Thanks.
FoxyMulder said:The Universal Charade disc arrived today...
Yeah...except now I can't get that song out of my head! It WAS, however, fun to watch that video again after many, many years of not having seen it.Will Krupp said:HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
Thank you, That, in a nutshell, is what many of us wanted to know.Will Krupp said:If you watch them side by side or back to back you'll see that they are CLOSE but not the exact same transfer but (I suspect) the same source. There are differences (mostly in color) but different people will get different mileage out of that.
Let's just say they are both very good and you wouldn't do badly with either.
Whoa, wait a minute...this is SO weird! In your comparisons they look like the EXACT same transfer but I can assure you, after all the time I spent with these, that there was a marked shift in the color (away from pink) on the Universal disc when I watched it. I don't understand how we can have such different experiences!FoxyMulder said:No difference in colour,..
The comparison took almost ten hours to prepare, unlike some sites which shall remain nameless i do it manually by hand, all settings are identical when taking the caps, i ensure all the bad things such as edge sharpening and excessive colour and contrast boosts are switched off in the graphics card controls and such settings are also switched off in Media Player Classic, i also make sure renderer settings are 0-255 and bt.709 profile is engaged.Will Krupp said:Whoa, wait a minute...this is SO weird! In your comparisons they look like the EXACT same transfer but I can assure you, after all the time I spent with these, that there was a marked shift in the color (away from pink) on the Universal disc when I watched it. I don't understand how we can have such different experiences!
I gotta ask, but you're SURE you didn't accidentally scan the same disc twice?
I mean, I'm sure you didn't but I can't account for why these look identical here but they are different for me and different for the blu-ray.com reviewer who also remarked on the color changes (though we came to opposite conclusions.) Would the codec react differently to different players? I don't see why it would but this makes no sense to me. I mean, right out of the gate with Regina eating her breakfast there was a difference....
HELP!!!!
(by the way, to my eye these both look like the slightly pinker Criterion transfer...why does the Universal look "better" for me at home?)
So you/re saying I'm just crazy?FoxyMulder said:they are identical in colour, any differences are due to display alterations they have made or the placebo effect, most likely the latter as we all want to see differences when we re-buy things.
Or perhaps those not seeing what you see with the color are that way?Will Krupp said:So you/re saying I'm just crazy?
It is what it is, i can't make this up, i prepared the screencaps exactly as i always do, identical settings produce stellar results, it's like screen calibration, everything has to be equal to do these tests and it was, no, not crazy at all, i just ask you trust my findings, i took a lot of time doing this and i have absolutely no vested interest in any of this, i want accuracy and strive for it, the screencaps are accurate.Will Krupp said:So you/re saying I'm just crazy?
Robert Crawford said:Or perhaps those not seeing what you see with the color are that way?