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2017-04-05, 04:52 AM
You'd be willing to give the cropping and even the color balance the benefit of the doubt if it weren't for the fact that they destroyed image detail.
Good chance they didn't care what they did to the transfer. 
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2017-04-10, 01:05 AM
Just walked out of the live action tonight.
Wow that was bad... 
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2017-04-23, 10:10 PM
(2017-04-04, 06:31 PM)Lotto Wrote: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/205578 BTW, the 2nd link has its entries reversed (note the picture sizes), which caused the confusion. The "window-boxed" images are the larger-sized and should be from the "French Blu-ray". 
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2017-07-25, 04:41 PM
If someone is still interested, I've found the (maybe original?) VC1 (mislabeled) HDTV file, 1920x1040 7mbps.
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2017-07-25, 07:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 2017-07-25, 09:29 PM by BronzeTitan.
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Wow! Could you show a screencap to match one of the shots from Caps-A-Holic?
-- (2017-03-14, 12:58 PM)Evit Wrote:(2017-03-14, 12:32 PM)bendermac Wrote: I still have the Windows Media 9 HD version from way back. I think it was part of a DVD release. Though I never watched that version. Once upon a time (possibly before at the beginning of DVD) . . . ![[Image: 41Yjd7D+OBL._SL1600_.jpg]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Yjd7D+OBL._SL1600_.jpg)
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2017-07-25, 07:36 PM
It's the same one Lotto posted screenshots few posts before; difference is in color matrix, and this seems to retain the original 1.85:1, untouched.
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2017-07-25, 07:44 PM
I haven't bought the recent Italian Blu Ray yet, I still wonder how they compare... but there should be some super offer here from the 27th, I'm hoping I can find that title discounted. SpoRv it's Mediaworld doing 50% off of movies.
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2017-07-25, 10:05 PM
27th July until 13th of August. Not sure if also online.
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2017-07-25, 11:50 PM
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Examining the HDTV snapshot, the "grain" doesn't look like grain. R-G-B separations, compared among themselves, show the "grain pixels" varying lighter and darker similarly across all three, regardless of the area color. That is not grain, which varies independently in each separation. It's just noise. How did that noise get in? Beats me, but it's got to go.
Reducing that noise in R-G-B separations is pointless. Each separation would be processed identically and it wouldn't be different than processing the full picture just once. However, it can be done in H-S-L separations. Why use separations at all? Because it allows one to surgically adjust only those areas that need it. Not touching other areas that don't need it allows the picture to retain it's character. Now, forget adjusting Hue -- try that and it's 60's psychedelic time. Saturation can be smoothed, which I did, to unify pixel intensities that are a jumble even in solid color (you have to see that separation to believe it). Luminance, however, is where the real work is done. In a paint program, I use "JPEG artifact removal" on low or normal, a couple of times to reduce it's noise. Then a low-percent "Unsharp-mask" is applied to put the crispness back into any softened edges. When the H-S-L separations are rejoined. the picture is a little weak after all that processing. In "Hue/Saturation/Llightness", a slight increase in "saturation" and slight decrease in "lightness" restores the overall look to that of the original ... except for the noise.  This processing may be useful, even to those who hate the industry's DNR madness. Before and after at 200% magnification: ![[Image: GITS_HDTV_noise_not_grain_reduction_compare.png]](https://s1.postimg.cc/lc6qceo0f/GITS_HDTV_noise_not_grain_reduction_compare.png) |
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