Blu-ray Transfer Reviews
Dear Gary:
I am an avid fan and subscriber. Quick question:
What can we do to try to compel studios to use less digital filtering on their Blu-ray titles? While not as important perhaps as holosonic audio, these artifacts really take me out of the movie and prevent future generations from reliving the experience as intended.
I was appalled by two recent examples of my all-time favorite titles:
1.) Lord Of The Rings Blu-rays show compression artifacts shown here at CrunchGear
2.) Edge Enhancement in The Dark Knight.
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How do you think we can get the movie industry to filter less? I read Bjoern Roy's special
Ever since then I've realized that many of these people at the studios don't know what they're doing and it appalls me, as it I'm sure grates on you when you find that sound mixers are not mixing soundtracks in reference optimum loudspeaker configurations like your own lab.
Anthony Ramos
Editor-In-Chief and Publisher Gary Reber Comments:
I agree, efforts at the studios to "heighten" picture quality often results in annoying artifacts and a degradation of the image quality. The vast majority of monitors used for telecine work are small-sized, and often the resulting artifacts from edge enhancement or noise reduction are not evident, as they are with projection.
I point out excessive artifacts that result in an annoyance and distraction in our Blu-ray Disc reviews. Such artifacts are far more prevalent on DVDs than Blu-ray Disc, but nonetheless are at times there.
The trend is definitely to use less filtering and picture "enhancements," which I hope will eventually result in the most accurate transfer of the filmmakers' art. Of course, it should be noted that not all image correction is bad and can in particular instances result in a significant improvement.
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