Ill probably grab the new Criterion Disc but it sounds like a project may be on the way
I may wait

What do you mean by over scrubbing the audio?

captainsolo Wrote:I'll wager that the LD audio could sound better.

Unlikely. The Criterion DVD was free of any high-end attenuation and sounds essentially the same as the Criterion blu-ray.

(2018-02-23, 03:29 AM)Moshrom Wrote:

captainsolo Wrote:I'll wager that the LD audio could sound better.

Unlikely. The Criterion DVD was free of any high-end attenuation and sounds essentially the same as the Criterion blu-ray.

So the blu ray sounds no better than the DVD?

Some shots from the Image Fullscreen LD (in no particular order):


I'll encode the cap shortly and make it available to anyone who's interested and has been following/contributing to the thread.

I'll see a DCP tonight. Supposedly "restored", so that'd be the new Criterion master.

Well, the DCP was 2K. I asked the tech person there. It's odd, 'cause it really looked like the Criterion master. Wasn't it made at 4K? How weird! It's 2018, for Christ sake!
I also had to stand up and make them fix the framing: they screwed up and started it in scope, cropping top and bottom.

The Criterion master was in 4K, but even though it's 2018, 4K projectors are the exception, rather than the rule.
It sucks, I know, and cinema chains wonder why people prefer to watch films at home...

No, I mean that I saw it in a 4K capable theater, but the DCP they were provided was 2K. Makes me wondering about the actual status of the remaster. But if you say 4K, fine, I believe you. It's just odd that the DCP was not.

I might be wrong but I read somewhere that 2K DCPs are used for financial reasons. 4K has about 4 times the pixel amount as 2K and thus a much higher bitrate. Just saving on hard disk money?

Edit: I'm probably wrong, just read this on Google: "Bitrate limits of DCP's. Most Digital Cinema Packages have a bitrate limit of 250 Mb/s (mega bits per second). It doesn't matter if a DCP is 4K or 2K. 250 Mb/s is the most that theatre servers and projectors can process (our article on DCP file size talks about the few exceptions)."