AntcuFaalb said:
jedimasterobiwan said:
Do they know people are sick of dnr and edge enhancement in their films or do they just don't care?
In my experience "people" just don't know and don't care.
The average person is fine with whatever's most convenient for them (e.g., Netflix) and even the average piracy-inclined person is fine with a low bitrate YIFY encode of a movie.
Videophiles are a relatively tiny group. We're lucky that some production companies are even making a half-assed attempt to please us.
My father watches VHS over composite stretched to 16:9 on a contrast-boosted over-sharpened LCD TV with a terrible black level and he thinks it looks fine.
For the most part, bad releases are released and never revisited. But as recent history has shown, if the digital butchering is bad enough, and not even the studio apologists can accept it, then the studio will quietly reissue a new release with a remaster. Sadly not the case for Predator and the Star Trek films though.
When the first Gladiator disc came out, there were a few reviews that claimed "it's not that bad". I'm not sure how it could be much worse. I guess Gulliver's Travels? There was enough furor to influence Universal/Paramount/whoever to do a new remaster not long after. Similar thing with Gangs of New York too, and LOTR: Fellowship (though that remaster opened another can of worms). BTTF isn't in that league, however. It's no Predator UHE.