La Chimera (2023) - Curzon Blu-ray

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Here are some screenshots for the new La Chimera BD by Curzon.
Compared to the Wim Wenders set, they've now changed some settings as the only (occasionally) problematic spots are the highlights compared to the entire image which ruined their Wim Wenders set.

Encoding settings:

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I've used Diffchecker to look at the differences between a random Wenders encode and La Chimera and the key change I noticed is that they're no longer encoding at a constant bitrate. This was changed to variable. See here for more: https://www.diffchecker.com/0vVOApdt/

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