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Post #677702

Author
The Aluminum Falcon
Parent topic
Halloween [spoRv] *BD-25 RELEASED*
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Date created
14-Dec-2013, 1:03 PM

Excellent work, just excellent work. Your process gives extremely great results when you're working with high-quality HD masters (except in color timing). Your Matrix release's downfalls all stemmed from the fact that the HD version you were working with was contrast-boosted and tinted so extremely. Though I haven't seen the THX DVD in awhile, this release really seems to be the THX color except with the 4K downscaled resolution of the 35th Anniversary BD. Quality-wise, Anchor Bay did a really good job, and it's fantastic that you have something so nice to work with for a more cult movie.

The audio is really nice. I especially love the lossless effects/music track. This really seems like a great supplement to Anchor Bay's 35th Anniversary release.

Are you still going to work on a release based on the Criterion color timing eventually? This will probably always remain my go-to disc just for the fact that your script has restored the aesthetically-pleasing THX color timing more than any general color correction setting could. However, it would be interesting to have a supplement that had the theatrical color timing. I'm not 100% on the fact that the 35th Anniversary might have been accurate to theaters; the fact that it's inconsistent with the Criterion LD makes me think it's just the negative estimated to look like a print color-wise, from memory, by Dean Cundey.