Papai2013 said:
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Even if I must admit it's a nice little movie, I don't think anyone here will spend some money to get it... (--_)
Yes, I know, sadly! But it has a cult following anyway.
SilverWook said:
Is the Blu Ray messed up or something?
The Bluray is ok, but it still does not have the vibrant rich colour palette of the 35mm version. The Bluray colour is slightly bit desaturated and colder.
By the way, how much money would it take to make a 1080p scan of such a print, does anyone know? It has five reels.
A full aperture 4K scan, with damage matte, of a 6 reel feature is around USD20,000 (Twenty thousand dollars) at commercial rates, that doesn't include the HDDs to store it on, which at full resolution is around 21TB, so another USD500 or so for storage.
There are underground places that will do a UHD scan (3840 x 2160 or 4000 x 2160) with no damage matte, with a bayer sensor and much less dynamic range, unstabilised at 12bit RAW compressed for $500-$3000 depending on a lot of factors. The storage on that is around 1-2TB per 6 reels.
Then of course you have to correct it back to the print, stabilise the footage, fix any damage, replace any missing frames from another source, do some grain reduction if you want it to fit on a Bluray without looking terrible (grain doesn't compress happily), sync the audio etc. which takes a bit of time and effort.
You then can get a really nice result that matches the theatrical presentation as closely as possible.