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May 20, 2020 - 8:02 AM
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Ado
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Also, are any of you fans of Matthew Robbins’ Dragonslayer (1981)? Some of you may have seen this already, but it’s been added to Amazon Prime for free viewing in HD. And it looks terrific. I’m trying to convince Paramount to release the film on Blu-ray, but until then (if you’re an Amazon Prime member) at least you can finally see the new HD transfer.
https://thedigitalbits.com/columns/my-two-cents/051820-1500
Hi John,
This is funny, I just watched my old DVD, which looks good as DVD's go, but not as good as I want it to. I enjoyed the gritty, not polished, not CGI-darkly lit quality of this film. The actors are good, the model work and animation are good, the sets and the cinematography are quite good. The score suffers a but with the audio quality here. I was wishing for a bluray, with a whole bunch of extras about the production of the film. Paramount has dropped the ball on this for too many years.
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I was just looking at some Disney DVDs I have.
Fantasia & Fantasia 2000 both look pretty flawless on DVD.
TRON looks fine, and Tron Legacy looks better.
The Black Hole looks terrible being uprezzed from SD. The star fields especially, but the FX work generally suffers.
I should look at my Dragonslayer DVD.
(The high-bit-rate DVD of Aliens looks really good)
(The not-so-thoughtfully mastered 'ST-TMP- The Director's Edition' does not look so good. Hell, DS9 generally looks better)
If you master carefully enough, SD material on DVD will play very nicely on HD TVs, (even star fields and general negative blacks) but you have to give it the care and enough bits to make it happen.
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I was just looking at some Disney DVDs I have.
Fantasia & Fantasia 2000 both look pretty flawless on DVD.
TRON looks fine, and Tron Legacy looks better.
The Black Hole looks terrible being uprezzed from SD. The star fields especially, but the FX work generally suffers.
I should look at my Dragonslayer DVD.
(The high-bit-rate DVD of Aliens looks really good)
(The not-so-thoughtfully mastered 'ST-TMP- The Director's Edition' does not look so good. Hell, DS9 generally looks better)
If you master carefully enough, SD material on DVD will play very nicely on HD TVs, (even star fields and general negative blacks) but you have to give it the care and enough bits to make it happen.
What makes you think Black Hole is an uprezzed from a SD source? That doesn't even make sense. I agree the star fields are weirdly out of focus for some reason but the rest looks fantastic.
I was looking at my DVDs- I don't have blu-rays of any of these movies I mentioned.
My DVD of The Black Hole is definitely an SD picture and it doesn't up-rez well, on my system at least. I'd buy the blu-ray of The Black Hole (which I'm sure is a 2 or 4k scan) but I don't have $30 for that at the moment.
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I looked at parts of my Dragonslayer DVD- It holds up pretty well, about as well as TRON, I suppose. In the final fight in the cave most of the backs look deep and stable (but not all). A respectable mastering job.
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