"Club Penton" - Ask questions to Hollywood insider "Penton-Man"

[Bullseye]

Originally Posted by horseflesh

Hmmmm.......Ireland is not part of the UK Penton

And I think that's a spoof commercial, I'm sure I read about it in the newspaper a couple of weeks ago, Diageo (who own Guinness) were none too please when they saw it.

Its better than most of the stuff they come up with....especially the price increases.

[horseflesh]

Penton, presuming that you're party to the relevant information; how confident are you that the company (or companies) handling authoring/encoding (or whatever the correct terminology is, I'm not so hot on this technical stuff, LOL) for Criterion will give us what we all hope for and expect???

[Deciazulado]

Originally Posted by Kris Deering

You will get an increase in contrast by setting your white clip point at 235, but most digital displays actually have MORE banding when you set white there as opposed to not clipping.

And why is that?

Originally Posted by Kris Deering

They are converted to PC levels by stretching, which causes its own issues. The information below black is not intended for viewing, but it does define a clip point for setting brightness. There are quite a few reasons for having that toe room though.

So what do you suggest members to do? Watch them at 16-235 and see a pasty image with dark grey black bars and shadow detail and greyed out specular highlights, or have to adjust their monitors to make those look black and white again temporarily for a little while?

[Kris Deering]

Originally Posted by HeavyHitter

Probably former HD DVD supporters.

Actually no, DVD supporters. They are complaining that we are leaving the main stream consumer out since we don't cover DVD anymore and have moved 100% of our coverage for players and software to Blu-ray.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by horseflesh

Hmmmm.......Ireland is not part of the UK Penton

Just testing to see if you’re still alive and kickin.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by horseflesh

And I think that's a spoof commercial, I'm sure I read about it in the newspaper a couple of weeks ago, Diageo (who own Guinness) were none too please when they saw it.

Which is why I purposely misspelled the name of the beer.

[Penton-Man]

^
And for those really astute readers, which is why I used these jobbers…..’ ‘ to surround the word live and add the phrase….. (semantics aside) in the next to the last paragraph here ………..

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...postcount=4714

[Penton-Man]

On a personal note, I would like to take this opportunity to give a special thanks to “Flor” for the personal assistance she has provided me in the past and the fact that she is a big promoter of the Blu-ray format and especially all kinds of movies in general.

So, from one Hollywood guy to another Hollywood girl……….


Penton
My personalized (for a reason) emoticon be here (should be about mid-way down the page and adjacent to cupid)…………….
https://forum.blu-ray.com/misc.php?d...=vB_Editor_001

[horseflesh]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Just testing to see if you’re still alive and kickin.

OK, I forgive you
The one that really bothers me is when British people ask me if I'm from "Southern Ireland", but I tell them no, I'm from eastern Ireland

[horseflesh]

Penton, you know the way you often tip people off about upcoming 70mm screenings of Lawrence of Arabia?
Well it's a pity your powers don't extend across the Atlantic

I finally a chance to flick through yesterday's newspapers and when I got to the weekend movie listing page my eyes lit up!!!
Lawrence of Arabia, the BFI's 70mm print, showing in the Irish Film Institute in Dublin. I'd missed today's screening (2:30) so I went onto their website to be greeted with this....
"The Irish Film Institute (IFI) is showing two classic films in the large 70mm format this month: the spectacular epic Lawrence of Arabia screens as part of our David Lean season (August 16, 17)"

So I'd missed all the screenings

BTW, the other movie they're going to show in 70mm is Vertigo.

[Mr. Cinema]

2 questions.

1. Will MGM/Fox ever stop pricing their catalog titles at $39.99? 2+ years into the format, and they are still releasing old catalog movies with the highest known list price. Should "Dude, Where's My Car?" really cost more than "I Am Legend" or "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End"? Should it have the same list price as "Iron Man"?

2. Newly announced Carrie and Amityville Horror discs will contain 0 of the dvd extras. Why?

[nithr]

where are all the 50GB discs?

[Slec]

Originally Posted by nithr

where are all the 50GB discs?

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=1643

[Penton-Man]

Well, this isn’t quite like seeing the A/B test projected in a screening room in Woodland Hills (L.A. environs) but, for those that don’t have access to that type of thing, this test (albeit taking into consideration the compression) might be a fun exercise for those digital video janitors that claim they can always differentiate footage captured on film from digitally captured stuff.

Scroll down to Independent Genesis and Film Comparison and get your vote in by Sept.1 !
http://media.panavision.com/Screenin...ox_Office.html

[Penton-Man]

I’ve noticed that commercials are now airing on television promoting this film (TCCoBB)……..
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...postcount=3484

due in theaters on Christmas Day.
I highly recommend the film.

P.S.
Speaking of David F., primary photography and such, remind me to tell you all how some people in Hollywood believe to this day how David and Connie Hall hood-winked the studio executives at Columbia Pictures (who were paying the bills) into forking out more dough for the post production of one of his past feature films.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by nithr

where are all the 50GB discs?

Sitting in the homes of guys and gals like this………………
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...169#post333169

[jangofett]

Penton/Max/anybody , I have a question about Sony's revenue stream from Blu. I know that Sony gets $$$ from discs sold, but what happens after 7 years? Will the ability to profit from Blu disapear after 7 years, b/c of a patent or will Sony still be pulling in ching 15 or 30 years from now? This should basically be public information b/c it concerns basically public legal stuff, albeit hard to uncover for the layman; but I was just curious. Can you let me know how this is supposed to work out? thanks.

[aramis109]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Well, this isn’t quite like seeing the A/B test projected in a screening room in Woodland Hills (L.A. environs) but, for those that don’t have access to that type of thing, this test (albeit taking into consideration the compression) might be a fun exercise for those digital video janitors that claim they can always differentiate footage captured on film from digitally captured stuff.

Scroll down to Independent Genesis and Film Comparison and get your vote in by Sept.1 !
http://media.panavision.com/Screenin...ox_Office.html

Ok, I'm a novice or even less by anyone's standards, but how can you possibly tell the difference on a heavily compressed video? Isn't this quite a bit different than a full-blown film on an HDTV or projector?

Just curious. I was interested in trying until all I could see was heavy macroblocking.

[gandley]

So was Tranformers optimized for BD or not? the AVS crew are saying it was because the video bitrate is higher on BD.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1057518

i thought it was the same encode but looks like i was wrong.

[kpkelley]

Originally Posted by gandley

So was Tranformers optimized for BD or not? the AVS crew are saying it was because the video bitrate is higher on BD.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1057518

i thought it was the same encode but looks like i was wrong.

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDRe...rs_blu-ray.htm

The, almost 2.5 hour, film alone takes up a whopping 43+ Gig of space on the dual-layered first disc. We can safely assume that this is an improvement over the older HD edition simply because that defunct format couldn't hold that much data on one disc.