Fright Night (1985) (30th Anniversary Edition) (Limited Edition) - SOLD OUT

[BrandonJF]

Originally Posted by Ruined

The clock pan is the same. Most of it is fine with just a few frames of macroblocking causing the jumpy look due to all the film grain.

The old release had much less film grain in these areas so it is not as apparent.

How are you determining the new release has more "film grain"? Crank up the brightness on the old release and I'm sure the film grain will be much more apparent to you as well.

I'm not really noticing this increase in grain or detail in the comparison shots that are out there (or when viewing them at home, but it would be nearly impossible to discern much more than brightness differences without viewing them side-by-side). It's just brighter. If "brighter" = "better", then this is the release to have.

If you want to see a different encode produce slightly better results, look to the Sony release. A very slight increase in detail can be seen in that release. I'm not seeing the same results in the latest TT release.

[Trav606]

Originally Posted by VanDamme

Hey guys! New to the forums here, but I wanted to jump in on the 30th Anniversary discussion... Has anybody watched the EPK that supposedly runs almost feature-length?

Thanks!

(Well, longtime member, first-time poster!) :P

I watched most of it. It's a bunch a raw footage including interviews with cast, footage from the set and the incredibly cheesy 80s music video made for the film. It was kind of fun to skip around on, but not worth a full hour and a half of my life.

[VanDamme]

Originally Posted by Trav606

I watched most of it. It's a bunch a raw footage including interviews with cast, footage from the set and the incredibly cheesy 80s music video made for the film. It was kind of fun to skip around on, but not worth a full hour and a half of my life.

Ahhh, ok - thanks for the summary! (Cool to have this much recorded back then, surprisingly...)

[notsoboo]

Originally Posted by VanDamme

Ahhh, ok - thanks for the summary! (Cool to have this much recorded back then, surprisingly...)

I forget where I heard this (possibly one of the commentaries), but Roddy McDowall was constantly video taping and taking pictures on the set of most of his films, including Fright Night. When he died, his partner donated all of the footage to a college (I think it was a college in Boston, but I'm really not sure).

[VanDamme]

Originally Posted by notsoboo

I forget where I heard this (possibly one of the commentaries), but Roddy McDowall was constantly video taping and taking pictures on the set of most of his films, including Fright Night. When he died, his partner donated all of the footage to a college (I think it was a college in Boston, but I'm really not sure).

Incredible!! And amazing forward-thinking, too, wow.... I had to pay a steep price for my copy as I missed out on the preorder, but now I'm pretty excited to check this EPK out!

[zeze]

Originally Posted by RD1973

After looking closely at screenshot comparisons, I think that the Sony international release has the best picture.

Just one question, are all the Sony releases from last year identical? Everyone mentions the German version, but there are cheaper options from other countries.

Thanks in advance.

Good to hear. Just bought the German version for $12.86 Canadian. Sure beats paying close to $50 Canadian after shipping for the Twilight Time version.

[lolwut]

Originally Posted by BrandonJF

You are the one continually trying to make a "big deal" out of it. The rest of us are having a civil discussion. Who has said they "don't want" the Blu-Ray? Nobody that I've seen so far. It is possible to state an issue with a disc without going to the extremes you seem to want to pretend everyone else is going to.

If you can't handle people discussing technical aspects of the release, just avoid the thread. What more are you looking for out of this thread at this point? You're happy with the release, you don't want to read any comments about technical issues.... are you looking for more shipping updates? What would you like to discuss?

Everyone should just ignore slimdude's posts. He's a troll, always trying to stir up fighting and elicit responses. He's been like that since I joined. Notice how almost every time he posts, anywhere, he gets a bunch of people telling him how he's wrong (with a bunch of thanks). I have no idea how he hasn't been banned.

[The Peanut Monkey]

It's probably best to report posts you disagree with and not publicly criticise your fellow forum users.

/faux mod

I've yet to watch my copy of the film (!), but I'm just not as picky about slight image imperfections. Surprised the hell out of me; I guess I focus more on packaging problems than I do on encoding ones (which affect everybody). Not sure what that says about me.

[PuppetMasterBlu]

Originally Posted by VanDamme

Incredible!! And amazing forward-thinking, too, wow.... I had to pay a steep price for my copy as I missed out on the preorder, but now I'm pretty excited to check this EPK out!

Good news for anyone wanting a copy the prices are dropping. All the recent Ebay prices are going for around 70. I can see this going for around 50 eventually.

[tama]

Originally Posted by EddieLarkin

It's true that in the booklets a different facility is now credited with authoring. It was always 1K Studios before but now it's "Ambient Media". I wonder if they have anything to do with other authoring flubs on recent TT discs, namely the fact that the video for The Bride Wore Black was apparently encoded twice to accommodate a second audio track, when of course that wasn't necessary.

It seems they transitioned back in Sept. 2014. I remember they had a delayed release for that line up. I own Salvador which wasn't reviewed here nor at DVDBeaver and no Caps exist at Caps-a-holic but my understanding is they used the same transfer. It would be interesting to see if there is any differences between those two disc as well.

[Ruined]

Originally Posted by BrandonJF

How are you determining the new release has more "film grain"? Crank up the brightness on the old release and I'm sure the film grain will be much more apparent to you as well.

I'm not really noticing this increase in grain or detail in the comparison shots that are out there (or when viewing them at home, but it would be nearly impossible to discern much more than brightness differences without viewing them side-by-side). It's just brighter. If "brighter" = "better", then this is the release to have.

If you want to see a different encode produce slightly better results, look to the Sony release. A very slight increase in detail can be seen in that release. I'm not seeing the same results in the latest TT release.

the increase in grain/detail is obvious in the 30th vs 1st tt release. Similar to Sony release, also obviously more grain/detail.

[tama]

Originally Posted by brasil

Hope the compression gets mentioned in the blu ray review here so thay at least acknowledge it exists and maybe avoid it in future releases. They just told me it does not exist and if it does they don't care about it, and anybody who does can just not purchase the item.

It wouldn't matter if the reviewer here mentioned it. You should see how they (TT) reacted to the Heaven & Earth review here.

[starman15317]

Ordered the German release. Screw TT!

[Jason One]

Wow, those Twilight Time replies on Facebook are incredibly disappointing. I guess we can expect a high chance of more encoding problems on future releases, since they don't seem to care.

[NoirFan]

Personable as always!

Originally Posted by TT Facebook

It is bad enough dealing with actual problems, let alone made up ones like "defective encoders" - stuff like that exists only in Star Trek

[PuppetMasterBlu]

Lol wow those replies were something!

[bruceames]

Where can I see those replies?

[BrandonJF]

The person who originally posted these issues did say that the compression artifacts occur elsewhere in the film as well and there was another that jumped out at me without me looking for it. It takes place right after the previously mentioned "clock pan" right around when Jerry catches the orange (45:45). The compression artifact/macro-blocking (whatever we're calling it ) was pretty obvious. I mean, his arm and the stairs in the background just turn into a complete mess. It may only be a split second, but it shouldn't be happening.

I wonder how often this is going to pop up throughout the course of the movie. If we were looking at 3 isolated incidents (although, it happens a couple of times during the clock pan), maybe it would be easier to swallow (if this were the only option).

Anyone remember when there was pixelization in one frame during a fight scene in "The Matrix Revolutions"? WB corrected and replaced it for something that took up one frame... and some are outraged that anyone is even mentioning the issues with this release.

It looks like I'll be sticking with the original release when I want to watch the movie. I got this new release for the extras anyway. I was hoping the old release would pay for the new one, but I guess not.

[NoirFan]

Originally Posted by BrandonJF

Anyone remember when there was pixelization in one frame during a fight scene in "The Matrix Revolutions"? WB corrected and replaced it for something that took up one frame...

Or when BFI realized that An Autumn Afternoon had been encoded at a low bitrate and sent out free replacement corrected copies, as well as issuing an apology. Not that I expect either of the latter actions, of course, but referring to a documented issue reported by multiple customers, each of whom has shelled out $30 plus shipping for your product, as '(a) crazy piece of misinformation' is not the best approach to customer service.

[BrandonJF]

Originally Posted by Jason One

Wow, those Twilight Time replies on Facebook are incredibly disappointing. I guess we can expect a high chance of more encoding problems on future releases, since they don't seem to care.

It's only a matter of time before someone takes screen captures that they should have a more difficult time ignoring. I had been working on it tonight thinking it was as easy as hitting PrtScrn, but I found out it's not.

Then again, given their current attitude, I suppose they can just say any screenshots are doctored.