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JPSofCA
May 2007
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View profile »Go on now...don't be shy.
<edit>I know about Christmas Vacation, but I don't own it...I've got well over 40 HD DVDs...but do go on with your list - I'm curious to find out what you call a bad transfer.</edit>
[Post edited by JPSofCA on Jan 16, 2008 - CST 8:30 PM]
Skyhawk
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View profile »Oh there are so many, where should I begin? LOL
I just watched "Breakfast Club" the last week, and I think my DVD version was actually better (and it's not a great DVD transfer). "The Fugitive" just sucked in so many ways. We watched "Last Starfighter" just last night, and it was only a bit better than my standard DVD version. Thank God it was a rental. Gothika just sucked. I could go on...
Unfortunately, we have crappy transfers on both formats. I hope they redo many of these movies later (as they did with early DVD transfers), cause some of these movies I actually liked (movie-wise).
Edit: BTW I own Christmas Vacation LOL, it's pretty crappy for whats supposed to be an HD transfer, but it isn't as bad as the ones I listed above IMO.
[Post edited by Skyhawk on Jan 16, 2008 - CST 8:44 PM]
JPSofCA
May 2007
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View profile »"The Breakfast Club" I haven't seen on HD DVD yet (although I've been wanting to since day one), but the original film is a bit soft to begin with. Never saw "Gothica". I think they rereleased a better "Christmas Vacation" after the first one got griped about. "The Last Starfighter" turned out pretty nice compared to its source.
Mostly the ones you might mention as HD DVD duds are really just films with a poor source. Then there's "Pirates of the Caribbean" where the head and feet are chopped off, I'll admit, that is a bit inexcusable...oh wait, that one's Blu-ray. I don't know...you know what I mean though.
I'm just glad we've got an open forum where we can discuss these things to help one another from making poor purchase decisions. I think that way, we all end up winners!
[Post edited by JPSofCA on Jan 16, 2008 - CST 9:05 PM]
kucoloco
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View profile »Skyhawk
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View profile »There are so many that I seriously could keep listing, like Sleepy Hollow, Deliverance (oh boy), Lethal Weapon 1 & 2, etc. Then there are movies which I think they just ruined, not because of bad transfers but because of excessive DNR or EE - like Traffic, Waterworld, and Tremors. They just killed these movies.
But lets face it. Bad transfers on both sides of the format fence are not due inherently to the format itself, but due to the studios feeding us this crap. It's up to the public and reviewers to speak out and let these studios know we want quality transfers if they want us to double-dip our DVDs (again), or buy their new releases instead of rent only.
Skyhawk
October 2007
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View profile »I don't remember Liar Liar as being that bad. I rented that one too. It wasn't great, but certainly not really BAD like the titles we're talking about.
JPSofCA
May 2007
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View profile »I saw "Sleepy Hollow" and I was thoroughly impressed.
I thought "Deliverance" was as clear as a bell, a totally clean transfer and a true masterpiece!
I haven't seen the "Lethal Weapon" movies.
I suppose we do see transfer quality differently, and you are entitled to your opinions. What could they have done with "Deliverance" that you would have found it to be a better transfer?
For me with "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" I find that if you zoom in at all you will find little Atari 2600 jaggies on the picture. Although you can see the stitching on Gene Wilder's coat where you never could see it in standard definition. But those little jaggies don't exist on "The Searchers" one of my favorites, nor on any other HD DVD transfer of films old or new that I've noticed. But then I'm still renting my way down the Netflix list too! LOL
I should check out "The Breakfast Club"...eventually I will.
Skyhawk
October 2007
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View profile »Color saturation, shadow delineation, detail (it was "mostly soft"), contrast, and blacks could have been much better, and a fair bit of grain that looked like "noise" to me was present in many scenes. I just remember it as a rather disappointing transfer. That's not to say it wasn't considerably better than the very crappy DVD version I own. I think I bought that one in the early days of DVD when I still had my original player. At least they didn't EE and DNR the HD DVD version to death I suppose.
They can make these old movies look very good. Look at Blade Runner for example. I suppose studios just don't put the restoration money into catalog releases like "Deliverance" because of the limited viewer demographic. They probably wouldn't make their money back I guess.
Skyhawk
October 2007
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View profile »BTW, if you think the movies you've mentioned are good transfers... try out the following HD DVDs:
The Chronicles of Riddick
Hulk
Planet Earth
King Kong
Corpse Bride
Aeon Flux
Hot Fuzz
It's all relative. After watching these HD DVD transfers and drooling a bit, you'll look differently at many other titles.