High Noon (Fred Zinnemann) from Studio Canal

[Akijama]

High Noon Blu-ray

Street date : June 18

It will be interesting to see how its PQ and overall packaging compares with Olive Films edition.

[secretsquirrel]

I have high hopes. It seems like Studio Canal usually does a top notch job.

[deepbreathsanddeath]

Excellent news. I have the olive release and was considering getting the 2 disc ultimate edition dvd set for the special features but I may just have to sell my high noon Blu-ray if this is an amazing set!

[Akijama]

Release date is June 18th. Three more weeks

[nadsat]

Has anyone this release and can say anything about it?

[deckard82]

Originally Posted by nadsat

Has anyone this release and can say anything about it?

yup, me

Just now finished watching it actually. Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe, judging the screenshots I have seen, Olive Films's release of High Noon had quite a bit of DNR applied to it. I'm happy to say that that's not the case here. There is plenty of grain, detail is generally impressive. Very impressive actually. There's hardly any major print damage to be seen. A few specks and scratches here and there but they are hardly distracting.

I'm not saying the encode is perfect though. Compression ain't perfect but you'd have to get real close to your screen to see actual artifacting. The grain structure does not look perfect either but I'd rather have that than a DNR'd picture. So it's not a huge issue.

So yeah, I think it's pretty much worth the purchase/upgrade.

[martinyfelix]

Have you had a chance to check out the extras? According to bluray-disc.de there's the making off (which the US release also has) but also a couple of featurettes, one running for 50 minutes.

Originally Posted by deckard82

yup, me

Just now finished watching it actually. Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe, judging the screenshots I have seen, Olive Films's release of High Noon had quite a bit of DNR applied to it. I'm happy to say that that's not the case here. There is plenty of grain, detail is generally impressive. Very impressive actually. There's hardly any major print damage to be seen. A few specks and scratches here and there but they are hardly distracting.

I'm not saying the encode is perfect though. Compression ain't perfect but you'd have to get real close to your screen to see actual artifacting. The grain structure does not look perfect either but I'd rather have that than a DNR'd picture. So it's not a huge issue.

So yeah, I think it's pretty much worth the purchase/upgrade.

[nadsat]

Thanks for the info!

[deepbreathsanddeath]

Originally Posted by deckard82

yup, me

Just now finished watching it actually. Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe, judging the screenshots I have seen, Olive Films's release of High Noon had quite a bit of DNR applied to it. I'm happy to say that that's not the case here. There is plenty of grain, detail is generally impressive. Very impressive actually. There's hardly any major print damage to be seen. A few specks and scratches here and there but they are hardly distracting.

I'm not saying the encode is perfect though. Compression ain't perfect but you'd have to get real close to your screen to see actual artifacting. The grain structure does not look perfect either but I'd rather have that than a DNR'd picture. So it's not a huge issue.

So yeah, I think it's pretty much worth the purchase/upgrade.

I own the High Noon disc and I'm pretty sure it wasn't DNR'd... It's filmic and detailed almost all the time. When it is soft, that's believed to of been shot by second unit who probably didn't have quite as much of a grasp on how it should look.

The way you've described the german release sounds worse than what the Olive disc looks like... lol. In any event, I'm sure they both look great and I am waiting to see if the UK gets it and if so, goodbye Olive's release.

[deckard82]

Originally Posted by deepbreathsanddeath

I own the High Noon disc and I'm pretty sure it wasn't DNR'd... It's filmic and detailed almost all the time. When it is soft, that's believed to of been shot by second unit who probably didn't have quite as much of a grasp on how it should look.

The way you've described the german release sounds worse than what the Olive disc looks like... lol. In any event, I'm sure they both look great and I am waiting to see if the UK gets it and if so, goodbye Olive's release.

dunno, judging this screenshot for example
http://www.caps-a-holic.com/hd_vergl...ess=#vergleich

everything looks strangely clean and textures look oddly flat and in my opinion it does look like at least some DNR has been applied. I'm not saying it looks super bad. It just didn't look that way on the Studiocanal disc. Guess we won't really know untill someone does a screenshot comparison anyways.


edit: Just found this. It compares the German DVD and the new German Blu-ray:
http://www.hd-compare.de/?cmp=high_noon