Escape from New York [spoRv] V1.1

[spoRv]

The world is small...

No, I didn't touch the colors in my release.

[DoomBot]

Here's a small uncompressed video sample from the new BD of the screen caps that were posted.

https://mega.co.nz/#!5Nc2WbhK!p3TdBOjRdz...JoJdTEER74

[kk650]

Yeah, that screencap comparison shows the shout release to be painfully oversaturated, the hdtv shot is much better IMHO. Somebody needs to tell Van Cleef to stay out of the sun in that Shout release, he looks like hes been burnt to a crisp!

[Murch13]

I know I'm not gonna make any friends here with this opinion, but I quite liked the look of the shout Blu. This is a very tricky film to judge picture on, especially because of all the flawed anamorphic lenses they used. I don't disagree that the color and gamma is bumped up on the shout but it really brings out the production design and dean Cundey's lighting style. Cundey uses a lot of colored gels in his lighting (especially on the streets at night in this film) to separate foreground and background and the boosted colors bring that out a little more. Is it the way it looked in theaters? Probably not but I think the film looks very good this way. And if I change my mind I've got the hdtv version to go back to

[TServo2049]

I'm gonna play devil's advocate and say that the colors on the HDNet may be UNDERsaturated. I've seen quite a few 35mm prints of other 80s movies projected in a theater, and colors never look that subtle. Even when I've seen desaturated color (Streets of Fire) things didn't look grayish to the extent of that HDNet image. And I just saw a 35mm of The Thing a few weeks ago; even in gritty, less saturated scenes the colors looked defined.

It could just be that the HDNet is a low-contrast transfer of a low-contrast IP; video transfers generally use low-contrast sources, while theatrical prints have higher contrast. But the contrasty, saturated look of the first Shout image kinda-sorta reminds me of 35mm prints I've seen. (Less so the second screenshot.)

Just my impression; not saying the Shout is exactly correct, just that I think the HDTV feels to have too little color.

[Murch13]

I'm gonna play devil's advocate and say that the colors on the HDNet may be UNDERsaturated. I've seen quite a few 35mm prints of other 80s movies projected in a theater, and colors never look that subtle. Even when I've seen desaturated color (Streets of Fire) things didn't look grayish to the extent of that HDNet image. And I just saw a 35mm of The Thing a few weeks ago; even in gritty, less saturated scenes the colors looked defined.

It could just be that the HDNet is a low-contrast transfer of a low-contrast IP; video transfers generally use low-contrast sources, while theatrical prints have higher contrast. But the contrasty, saturated look of the first Shout image kinda-sorta reminds me of 35mm prints I've seen. (Less so the second screenshot.)

Just my impression; not saying the Shout is exactly correct, just that I think the HDTV feels to have too little color.

Yes! This is a great theory and makes sense to me. As usual the "sweet spot" is probably somewhere in between.

[bendermac]

Sooo guys, what is the verdict:
Stay sporv or go Shout?
I have both, but one has to go

If we stay shout, we need to sync the PCM from the LC. Unless the 2.0 track on the Shout is the same.
We never if they just didn't down-sampled it from the 5.1 audio. It happened before on Day of the Dead.

[DoomBot]

The LD is already set for the shout BD. Check the Audio project links

[DoomBot]

I say spoRv does v2 but maybe 50/50 best of both worlds?

[spoRv]

I say spoRv does v2 but maybe 50/50 best of both worlds?

Explain it better, I'm Italian after all...