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Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist
I am unsure why every time grain is brought into review discussions it is always referred to as bad. I have not seen the disc in question but just a few days ago had the pleasure of seeing ITV DVD-Granada's treatment of Black Narcissus which reveals an enormous amount of grain. And I could not be any happier with the results as it hands down beats any SDVD presentation I have seen before (and I do own the 2DVD French release). Yes, there was substantially less grain on the SDVD release but it is that much less impressive placed next to the BD.
I hope you do not take this post the wrong away but I am certainly at the point where I believe that the more we talk about grain and why it is on the BDs we buy the better. I am aware of past discussions on this forum addressing the same subject and suffice to say I won't tire of defending the idea of having on BR what the director intended not what some studio DNR applicator assumed film should look like.
Best,
Pro-B
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I totally get where you're coming from, I'm just saying that compared to the DVD copy that I rented and the Blu Ray that I bought I thought that the DVD copy looked alot cleaner than the blu-ray version.
I watched the Blu Ray in full last night and now that i have watched it in full in HD i must admit that it's obviously been the director's intention to have the grain present because the movie does have a washed out, processed look, and it's obviously a send up of the old 80's slashers so he has went for that look.
I really should have watched the whole disc rather than flick through it before i opened my big mouth.
