Silence of the Lambs gets a 4K Remaster by Criterion

[CSchmidlapp]

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

[deleted user]

What do you mean by over scrubbing the audio?

[Moshrom]

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.

[zoidberg]

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?

[zoidberg]

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.

[Beber]

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

[Beber]

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.

[nirbateman]

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...

[Beber]

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.

[deleted user]

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)."