AntcuFaalb said:
msycamore: Thanks for this! Please keep it coming!
Do you think it would be possible for us to come up with a comprehensive list of changes?
I can pull the unaltered shots from the BD, do a match grade and a match grain, and then plug them right into my WOWOW Avisynth script.
To make a hybrid of various sources sounds like a great idea. It's something I have wanted to do for some time now. A comprehensive list would not be that difficult to come up with as the changes aren't that comprehensive to begin with if color grading and audio is avoided. The way I understand it, the altered shots of the boulder and the removal of the glass reflections in the Well of Souls are present in the DVD and all HD versions. Which means these alterations so far...
* Pan American Clipper Matte Painting: DVD / BBC HD / WOWOW / Canal + HD
* Flight to Nepal: DVD (??? BBC HD / Canal + HD ???)
* Cliff Matte: BBC HD
* Lamppost Matte: BD
A couple of reframed shots in the submarine base...
Top: BD Middle: WOWOW Below: DVD
Reframed shot #1
first frame:
last frame:
Reframed shot #2
first frame:
last frame:
The DVD and HD-broadcast (WOWOW) have more or less identical framing, (the DVD is a little bit more open) it's hard to know for sure if the BD did get a tighter framing in these particular scenes or if the other transfers were opened up without having access to film prints. But if I would make a guess the framing of the BD is an alteration due to the big discrepancy, but it's of course possible it's the other way around.