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Originally Posted by merrick97
I feel that now more and more people instead of actually WATCHING THE DAMN FILM and being able to appreciate the significant improvement it offers over dvd the enthusiasts now get out their microscopes and go out of their way to find things wrong with the look of the film and then cherry pick the worst examples. The thing is that most of this stuff is stuff that most people (even enthusiasts) would never notice.
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It's to be expected at an enthusiast site. Go to a Disney park fan board, and read all about the paint chip that is on one of the sign posts in the Haunted Mansion queue and is the ruin of Disneyland and destroying lives, or how Disney changing the paper they print receipts on is going to cause the destruction of the entire park and lead to the end of western civilization.
I glance at the video reviews (usually skip past the audio because if it sounds clear that's all I care about, and I have yet to find a really bad audio track) but I don't sit and obsess over them because I just don't care. I want a good, quality picture, better than what I've seen before. I understand a decent amount of video concepts and terms (i.e. I know a compression artifact from a black crush), but it seems they have invented all kinds of new terms for "defects" that people see with Blu-ray (I still have yet to see or understand "banding", even looking at comparisons that are supposedly examples).
It's just a symptom of fandom. For most people, DVD is good enough, and Blu looks even better. I kind of feel bad for people that can't just sit back and enjoy a film on Blu without getting those microscopes out and analyzing every pixel. I just watch movies, and if it looks good (and it almost always does on Blu) I'm happy. The only thing I can't stand are compression artifacts, which are thankfully absent from most Blu's.
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Originally Posted by Mr. Cinema
Does this pic below look smeared to anyone else?
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If that picture is "smeared" or not is irrelevant.
That is a screenshot.
Screenshots are not accurate representations of the quality of a moving film, they must be taken artificially by software which puts something between you and the picture, and if you cherry pick a frame from even the most admired releases I am sure someone could find a complaint.
People should at least wait until they've actually seen the material in question before they go all "Predator". Or it will just backfire - cry wolf too many times (or in this case, "cry excessive DNR!") and eventually no one will care. At the very least people should wait until it's actually in their hands before they moan about it.