Help Wanted: Alien Resurrection HD - anyone capping these on HDNet this July... — Page 2

Time to… resurrect (pun intended) this thread!

I captured the DTS LD (that “seems” to be different from the THX AC3 one), and compared it to BD.

Conclusions: LD has richer, punchy colors, with golden skin tones, while BD has duller ones, but natural skin tones; LD has more contrast, a bit more details in the shadows, a slightly increased sharpness. LD has more image on both sides, but less on the bottom, and also misses a single frame; this, along with the fact the image, even if correctly resized, doesn’t match with the BD due to some image aberrations (stretch and rotation) should mean they used completely different masters.

All these clues may lead to think that the master used for the DTS LD is indeed a silver retention processed print (more info on previous posts). Last thing: BD has the infamous magenta blanket applied all over it, even on the Fox logo; just look at fire, explosions, light flashes, reflections on water etc.

Comparison screenshots: top DTS LD, bottom BD:

I first need to upgrade my connection - apart my desktop computer…
But I’m going to prepare a test clip right now, stay tuned!

As promised, here you are the comparison clip: https://vimeo.com/202423916

Just finished to watch the raw LD capture, along with BD audio… well, it’s waaay better than BD; I thought skin tones could be too yellow but, a part few shots where indeed they are, in all the others they have the right colors - reflecting the lights, water etc. colors; even if skin color in the BD is natural, it should be not, as they are not scenes where there is natural light… also, on LD all that magenta is gone, so every light flash, explosion, fire etc. has its own, proper color, and not all the same magenta blanket…

Done, thanks!

“A whole movie in a single image!” comparison between BD and LD:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison.php?id=202082