La Belle et la Bête (BFI)

[bigshot]

DVD Beaver has a review of the new BFI restoration of Cocteau's Beauty & the Beast. The screen caps look fantastic, but they mention macro blocking and include a blowup to show the macro blocking. On my monitor I can't see any macro blocking in their example. I think this is another example of that weird gamma bug that makes banding in blacks visible on some monitors, but not others. I suspect on my projection system it would look just fine, just like it does on my calibrated iMac.

I hope someday someone gets to the bottom of this problem and posts a fix for it. It's very confusing to read reviews that mention artifacts that are completely invisible on my system.