Originally posted by: Knightmessenger
It's been said before that the "Faces" laserdisc set has less smearing and DVNR ghosting than Definitive Collection. So how could it be present on the master if the THX transfers were slightly different? Could it be that some noise reduction was applied on the fly during the telecine and then was further "corrected" in '93? And then when they went to the master for "One Last Time," they were smarter about how they used additional video fx?
It's been said before that the "Faces" laserdisc set has less smearing and DVNR ghosting than Definitive Collection. So how could it be present on the master if the THX transfers were slightly different? Could it be that some noise reduction was applied on the fly during the telecine and then was further "corrected" in '93? And then when they went to the master for "One Last Time," they were smarter about how they used additional video fx?
I own both the DC set and the Faces LDs, and the picture looks identical to me. From what I've heard, the DVNR was done at the first step, so if that's true, it would be present on both releases. For some reason however, the smearing doesn't seem to be as bad on the DVDs.