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Post #1366128

Author
Vladimon
Parent topic
Star Wars I - The Phantom Menace - ZigZig's Laserdisc Preservation (Released)
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Date created
29-Jul-2020, 9:15 PM

Guys, I see what you mean. It seems there’s little difference when viewed on my OLED screens but a rather big difference when viewed on my SONY laptop monitor. The display is definitely making the difference very obvious, whatever it is. The player settings / video card settings don’t play a role here, I’m pretty sure of that.

Just an interesting thing to note - I can only enjoy certain BD releases such as Godzilla on this laptop’s screen as I can clearly see all the action in the night scenes on that blu-ray (without changing any video settings) while pretty much everyone I know and their sisters complain about it being super dark. Trying to fix the image through video brightness, gamma, black point and other settings then negatively affects the daytime scenes for them. I don’t need to do that on this screen and both daytime and nighttime scenes look fine. It’s also only this monitor where I always immediately notice the not-yet-so-great encoding done by hevc h265 in most darker areas of image or in the picture’s bokeh areas as well where lots of little detail and fine transitions between shadowy areas vanish into a uniform mud of the same color tone with h265. Sometimes I will even watch sth like a bad mp4 with tons of artifacts on this screen rather than my own bad h265 rip because of this one reason (for my rips using RipBot on default settings only). Again, always super obvious on this laptop’s monitor. I really do see more and longer creases and better defined detail (by slightly higher variation in the dark color tones of the shadowy areas) on Qui-Gon’s robe in cap A even though in terms of sharpness detail the cap is definitely blurrier overall.

Either way, a great preservation and the little problem that I am seeing is not something 99% of people will see or care about. Wish you could see what I’m seeing though.

http://www.image-share.com/ijpg-4088-131.html