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spoRv
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Info: THE ARRIVAL - Special Edition (seeking a team up) (lots of useful info)
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5-Feb-2014, 7:15 AM

I will NEVER do an MP3 version of it!!! (^^,)

So, you should wait for the project release... I want to add ALL the extras - still don't know if release movie + extras as 2x BD-25 or single BD-50 - but I need the german Kinowelt DVD; plus the french and spanish soundtracks!

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Some quotes from online reviews:

Black levels could stand to be darker and deeper. As it is, they take on a brightness that lends to them a grayish appearance. Most of the image, too, appears washed out, often as if a thin layer of film covers the screen.

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Arrival-Blu-ray/3929/#Review

But if detail is impressive, color is not. During its best moments, the movie's palette is flat and naturalistic. The worst shots suffer from weak blacks and colors that are slightly washed out.

http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/arrivalbluray.php

The image is remarkably color muted and lacking depth and dimensionality often seen in high definition transfers whose original prints date back even earlier than this ones. Contrast is nearly non-existent with blacks washing out into dark grays, and intensive shadowy areas omnipresent in an alien compound fall victim to black crush.

http://www.thehdroom.com/news/The-Arrival-Blu-ray-Review/5161

What also hurts are the non-existent black levels, generating no depth whatsoever as the film is swallowed in ugly shades of flat gray. Colors are subdued and dim

http://www.doblu.com/2011/02/06/the-arrival-review/

Strangely, they were all right... but fear not, we have a solution! (^^,)

Latest tests: left BD, right BD with contrast correction and grain plate applied (click for larger version):