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Originally Posted by Spanbauer
This is by no means my ideal Predator release; the film could have used a little DNR (it was an excessively dirty film) but they should have applied at least half of what they did. Between the only two Blu-Ray's we'll probably see come to market though, I think the pros of this disc outweigh the cons.
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Yes, I think both Predators are probably not "ideal," (pick your poison?) but I think it's possible this new version might be better at least to my eyes. Make no mistake, I not a fan of DNR (although I do realize most releases contains a bit of it, so if it's used therapeutically and properly, I'm okay with it I guess), however, I am going to keep an open mind until I actually get to see what this new Predator looks like in motion on my ISF'd 60" SXRD display.
I really think the original Predator has a tremendous amount of compression artifacting and macro-blocking which is giving the perception of real film grain
at times. I've watched the original BD a couple of times and I think this is often the case. It's a bit similar to how many people thought they were seeing real film grain on 480i DVD when it was largely noise. Now, on the original Predator, some of it might also be real film grain that the low bit MPEG-2 just couldn't handle making the grain patterns look so blocky and digital.
In addition, I think the color timing, gamma, and contrast is notably superior on the new version and I am looking at the entire picture (literally).
