@alinskey Had that happen with one of mine, mate. Side 1 absolutely shining and pristine, side 2 cracked straight through. I now own 4 copies of the one I had arrive cracked. My brain is broken as well, apparently...
HAHAHA that was my reaction as well @zoidberg. Funnily enough syncing the LD digital mono to the uncut DVD (or at least I recall it as uncut) is on my to-do list for the imminent future
Quick question; Does anyone here have any of the Warner Bros. UK VHS releases of Highlander 1? I'm wanting to check something but don't have a VHS set up any more.
Maybe I'm not giving the author enough credit but it sure seems like they're massively oversimplifying to the point of misinformation, either because they feel a need to dumb it down (or maybe the editor does) or because they just straight up don't understand it themselves. EDIT: Actually I think it might be that they don't know what the hell they're talking about because... "This article was amended on 4 September 2020. An earlier version incorrectly said the dynamic range of TVs was “more extreme” than in cinemas. This has been corrected."
The bit about IMAX cameras having been stated as the explanation seems a little bit disingenuous, since the source it cites isn't really saying that at all: it just says that Nolan doesn't like doing ADR (which I already talked about above re. Bane in TDKR), and then explains that there is a challenge with using IMAX cameras for quiet dialogue moments so they used an alternative camera to shoot those. It doesn't say that the IMAX camera was used anyway thus dialogue is hard to hear...
This article is pretty frustrating, as it's not just tenet. Basically every department that has something to do with the sound is blaming someone else for the mix's shortcomings.
I saw the movie in faux-IMAX twice. It's hilarious just how much the dialogue is indecipherable. Combine that with the dream-like elliptical editing that Nolan has leaned harder and harder into... It's no surprise that people come out of the movie confused.
I saw the film, and it's pretty subpar Nolan. The mix is terrible because apperantly you're not supposed to understand everything until a certain point. Even knowing that doesn't exactly make it better.
I'm just hoping that the dialogue mix is better on the home release. Literally every review mentioned how bad the mix was which is unusual for a modern mix.
Yes I was very surprised when I learnt Infinity War was filmed entirely in IMAX. I would never have known by looking at it. But of course that was with the digital camera. Nolan movies have a look that makes them all the more special.
I was at the IMAX preview of The Dark Knight Rises where they showed that opening scene, before the ADRd Bane's voice (I remember Nolan being adamant he wasn't doing ADR, then he eventually did because the feedback was so overwhelmingly saying that nobody understood Bane... personally I didn't have an issue but there you go). They replaced the *real* IMAX projector near me with a digital one though and it isn't anywhere near as impressive to me any more which is really frustrating. But I still wanted to catch Tenet there because Nolan is just about the only filmmaker specifically making stuff *for* IMAX, rather than it being kind of a gimmicky afterthought.
I love the transitions to IMAX ratio. They feel even more special when used sparingly (The Dark Knight woah!) which seems to be less with each subsequent Nolan movie. Not that filming most of movie in IMAX is a bad thing, the increased fidelity is just awesome.
I don't find changing aspect ratio a distraction at all. And yes, 5.1 is perfectly eceptable for films. I've lived without atmos for many years, and continue to enjoy soundtracks from 1.0 to 5.1
wasn't it natively 6-track in IMAX anyway? ratio-wise, I get that it's potentially distracting for a moment or whatever but it's just really cool seeing the frame open up for the IMAX footage. Doesn't really have the same impact on a TV but at least it's *vaguely* impressive if you're projecting a large image onto a wall or something
Having a tough time with DTS Parser. When processing DTS WAVs captured from a DTS LD, it is producing a file that is 2x speed. Foobar is claiming the bitrate of this 2x speed files is 2470 kbps. I've been able to use Bronan's bit-perfect test (DTS CD captured as a WAV and put through DTS Parser creating 1235 kbps files). Has anyone had similar issues?
I find it interesting how on the Friday The 13th remaster, it seems there was a minor revisionist attempt to match up the skintones between Kevin Bacon's head and dummy body: https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&...62&i=7&l=0
managed to see Bill and Ted at my local Vue last night. there was 6 people including me in there. also booked a ticket for Alien (4K DCP) over Halloween
Extremely upsetting. My local indie is currently open and I have no idea how the hell they are going to survive. Showing Saint Maud, which is an excellent film that nobody is going to see
Does anybody have both the 4K/UHD and fullscreen US/German Blu-ray releases of THE EVIL DEAD (the original, not the remake)? Curious whether they're in sync or not; looks like there's about 19 seconds extra at the start of the UHD as far as I can tell but apart from that they may be frame-matched, or very very close to being frame-matched
The good side on the "just a beefed up" version is that the downward compatibility is given. not as with the PS3, when they changed the Processor Architecture to a extreme, and for PS4 another Architecture Change that made the Console not backwards compatible. I think if there is a game thats interests me, I might go for it as PS5 version, if a cool limited edition is released that I want, but will still get the console later.
As for the new consoles: Either is just a beefed up version of the current gen. At least that's how I see them at this point. There is no game that I want from the launch titles for 80 bucks. I just test them out and then sell them off or return them and get the money back.
I bought my PS3 shortley before that model was discontinued. It was the first fat with 60GB (European Model, sadly) that stil can play some PS2 titles. Later, when I was more days abroard, I got a slim, because the fat was too heavy and bulky.
@MrBrown My launch model PS3 was my SACD player amongst other things but that doesn't really make much difference after it suffers total hardware failure because they used thermal compound so bad that it turned to dust and fried all the ICs...
@MrBrown Yep, if Sony has taught us anything, it's that they cannae be trusted to manufacture a solid, reliable product first time around... they'll fix it for the next revision.