(2020-04-13, 04:34 PM)Stamper Wrote: Is the Amazon the H265? Different streams and encode make for different shift in colors.

The Amazon is sightly yellower.

I add only one comparison shot between Amazon H264 and H265, on the phone book scene.
https://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/1590

I would be hard pressed to see shifts in colors but I let others judge with better eyes than mine.

I just saw the opening text is in french in this master, as well as the onscreen sets (Los Angeles, 1984 1:52 am)

This could explain the slight differences as it is a doctored master.

The grain retention is better I think than the blu-ray, but one would need to re-encode it and restore the real titles. Maybe using the h265 overlaid with the Blu-ray might produce results?

I don't see the difference in your grabs, but clearly see them on my provider box while I watch the film. Maybe the provider box inner settings as some color management that has some influence on reading the files.

About the grain, I don't know, I'm thinking digital noise from the compression is adding new artefacts on top of the real grain that we see in the Blu-Ray. This shot actually loses details in the darker parts on the left and there are less details on Sarah Connor's hair
https://screenshotcomparison.com/compari.../picture:5
Mixing Blu-Ray with this version would actually mean loosing details, and with the unnnoticeable color differences... I wouldn't loose my sleep over this Prime Video version, but it was definitely worth grabbing for the localized French titles alone!

Neither has real grain, but the BD in that shot resolves it better

I'm with Evit, I think the Blu Ray looks better and whatever seems grainier in the WEB-DL probably is due to compression artifacts.

You're probably right. It doesn't sync with the BD either. Aw well, it was worth a try

That's life.

Sync could probably be fixed with TMPGEnd Smart Renderer, but if there are too many differences it might not be worth the work.

I'm wondering where the got the textless shots.

At least when it comes to trailers, these are provided by the distributor, including split audio (you can deactivate voices for example), but it might be completely different for movies.

The weird thing is they use a random font and didn't bother to find the font from the film (which is very easy to find online).