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Post #221628

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grifter
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OK, the DVDs are coming...so how bad are they going to look?
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25-Jun-2006, 10:59 AM
i've been watching some 4/3 dvds latelly to see what we can expect and some were pretty good, others were really bad:

Titanic: the first dvd (from 1999) was a 4/3 master, but i was surprised to see the quality of the picture despite being non-anamorphic and the fact that the movie (3hrs!) was on a single disc; if the OOT dvds can match that quality i will consider myself happy.

The Abyss: (probably the best Cameron movie ever!) it is also a 4/3 mastered dvd, but here you can tell that it is a LD master transfer; the picture is really blurry (specially when there is high contrasts in the image, like the openning sequence in the USS Montana), it's a shame that this movie never had a 16/9 release on dvd!

Silent Running: the quality is good enough to be "watchable" even if it is a typical 70's kind of image (grainy)

2010: the picture quality is ok, the lack of sharpness doesn't affect very much the space and interior scenes.

Wargames: this dvd has all the defaults! no sharpness, blurry and grainy picture.