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Originally Posted by dialog_gvf
They originally only had an interlaced (1080i) master for that title, and de-interlaced using the bob technique which destroys resolution. The Fugitive was another victim.
To their credit they quickly acknowledged the problem, and promised to never to do it that way again. And, so far, they haven't.
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Gary you keep saying that
(The bobbed thing)
Lets play with that. So it was a 1080i48 master or a 1080i60 master? in any case lets forget about any 3:2 as it would have been gone in the road to a 1080p24 BD.
So if you deinterlace the 540 pixel fields that compose a movie frame with the bob method, from a 1080i master you first get 48 bobbed 1080 pixel frames per second with details 2 pixels thick vertically (but horizontal details woud remain 1 pixel thick.) Those 48 1080 frames you have to blend (merge) 2:1 into 24 frames to get 24p. I think if you do that the actual vertical resolution even goes below 540 as for example any venetian blinds would make a black window on one 1/48th deinterlaced frame and a white window on the next 1/48th deinterlaced frame and when you merge that you get a total grey window (appart from any weird strobing patterns that would show up from that) and that's not happening. The vertical resolution sems to look similar to any correctly weaved frame from a 1080i CRT optimized frame. Now there are jaggies (And on Lethal Weapon 2 they're very clear) but as I have posted before, those "jaggies" run horizontal, the opposite direction of bobbed images, they seem to come from 2 pixel thick, or so,
horizontal pixels, meaning they look like a lower resolution pic (lets say a 1440 pixel wide or a 960 pixel wide image) being interpolated to 1920 wide, using a simple (nearest neighbor) upscaler. So maybe they were 1080i x 1440 masters that got weaved AND the horizontal res shown in 1920 shows the original lower pixel structure and that's why people think they're bobbed.
What do you think?
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Originally Posted by dialog_gvf
Hopefully since these are all new DVD release too they've invested in new masters (4K scans please, please, pretty please)
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(I'm all for high res scans
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