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    Ballast

    in On Screen / Reviews & Observations

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    Lol,

    Thanks for the Link to the Trailer and additional Video clips.

    This looks really good. I really like the look of this. What Stocks did you shoot with?

    It doesn't appear that it will be shown in AZ. Any idea when this might by available on DVD.

    Thanks

     

    Toby

    7231 Plus X

    in Film Stocks & Processing

    Posted

    David

    Thanks for the response. Man you really like that Book don't you? I ordered the book a few weeks ago. I'm about 1/2 done. I will flip through it tonight regarding black and white photography and Filters.

    I'm shooting in the Forest. Should be a nice sunny day. I'm going for a low key, high contrast look. What Filters would you suggest i test?

    Thanks for the response and the Book recommendation!

     

    Toby

    Blu-ray

    in On Screen / Reviews & Observations

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    Yes, I have. It was one of the first HD DVDs I bought. I understand the Blu-Ray encode is much the same (if not identical).

     

    The film is over-satured, over-contrasty and very bright. It was directed by Michael Bay, I expect no less.

     

    If your Blu-Ray is "worse" than your DVD it is only because the Blu-Ray is closer to MB's vision, which you probably don't like.

     

    I haven't seen the DVD version, only the film in cinemas and on HD DVD. They were very very similar.

     

     

    I saw this Movie at the Theater and I have watched the DVD quite a few times. I love the style of this movie. Yes it is over saturated. The Blu-ray I saw was at one of the big "Electronic Warehouses", maybe there system was not set up correctly or every enhancement available was turned on. I don't know. All I remember was how bad it looked.

    It sound like I should give it another chance.

    Blu-ray

    in On Screen / Reviews & Observations

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    I don't even know what that's supposed to mean, looking good. One man's good is another man's crap. The relevant question is if the Blu Ray is a well compressed version close in quality to the studio HD master tape and if that tape is an accurate version of the movie with a look as intended by the film makers for the HD medium. If "Transformers" Blu Ray makes someone puke it's not a Blu Ray problem. The disc is well compressed and the colors, contrast and sharpness are what Bay wanted them to be. The disk has neither excessive sharpening applied nor can I see anything else wrong with it in the technical department. Wanna bet digital projections in 2K of the film looked quite close? The look of this film is what it is.

    Before judging disks it's a must to make sure that one's display chain is accurate and following technical standards for correct color, gamma and grayscale and all digital filtering gimmicks are turned off (no sharpening, no noise reduction, no frame interpolation...) or you are not seeing what was put on the disk in the first place. And what was put there has all kinds of visual styles and signatures, superb eye candy for some, yucky garbage to others. Never trust a display you have not calibrated yourself or at least checked with reference material.

    Good looking Blu rays? There are lots and lots.

    Blade Runner

    Predator

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    Shoot Em Up

    The Tudors

    The Other Boleyn Girl

    Cool Hand Luke

    Black Narcissus

    Baraka (mostly)

    Atonement

    Ratatouille

    WALL-E

    Der Fuchs und das Mädchen

    The Prestige

    Apocalypto

    Matrix 1-3

    ...

     

    Your argument makes no sense.

    The DVD of Transformers doesn't look like crap. The colors are not over saturated. The motion is nice and smooth. The cuts are almost seamless. The Blu-ray is not.

    Blu-ray

    in On Screen / Reviews & Observations

    Posted

    Make sure you deactivated any "image-enhancements" from your TV/player!

     

    Well, there are oversharpened, ugly-filtered, over-saturated blu-rays available, but there are some blu-rays that are incredible.

     

    DVD is crap measured by technical standards, period! 720 lines of resolution with inferior compression, creating terrible looking, unsharp images full of artifacts!

     

    Here is a nice site with full-rez screenshots, which may give you an idea when choosing another blu-ray:

    http://www.highdefdiscnews.com/?page_id=104

     

    Those Screen shots look nice, but how does it look when it moves? Can anyone recommend a Movie on Blu-ray that the transfer looks really good?

    Thanks

     

    Toby

    Blu-ray

    in On Screen / Reviews & Observations

    Posted

    Here's worse. I have taken two identical Panasonic plasmas, fed one a blu ray version of the movie and the other a RGB progressive scaled 1080 SD and depending on the movie, either saw little to no difference or saw not much. In one case teh bluray looked worse, too sharp, almost video-like. I tried this with four films I rented one night three weeks ago.

     

     

    Exactly. The Blu-ray of Transformers I saw looked like over sharpened highly saturated Video. I almost puked on my Shoes it was so bad.

     

    Toby

    Blu-ray

    in On Screen / Reviews & Observations

    Posted

    I have seen good and bad Blu-Ray transfers... I honestly don't know what people have against the format, I would have thought the sort of people that come on this forum of all people would appreciate the benefit?

     

    For sure, there are sub-par transfers but these were even worse back in the days of DVD... I have a semi-decent home theatre setup with a colour calibrated screen and for me there is no comparison between a good blu-ray and a good DVD. If films look bad on Blu-Ray, it is usually the fault of the transfer (which is probably the one used for the DVD, only DVD is not good enough to see the imperfections).

     

    I don't usually get involved in these sorts of debates, but I feel the necessity to speak my mind here.

     

    Also, RE: Transformers, I saw the film in the cinema and one of the leading ladies also looked Orange there, so this is the intention of the filmmakers. It is a very saturated movie but that is an artistic choice IMHO. Blu-Ray simply allows for more preseveration of these colours, AFAIK.

     

    Have you seen Transformers on Blu ray? I don't think so!

     

    Toby

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