Blu-rays are 8 years old and DVDs still cling to them like a cancerous tumor. Why?

[Hatter]

Originally Posted by pentatonic

I think the actors are going to be the ones to suffer most, imagine how clear skin defects etc. will now show up that they didn't need to worry about that much. Plastic surgeons are going to capitalize, mark my words hehe

Photoshop handles those concerns already for current stars.

General:

Skin defects. Who cares? You have them, I have them, your friends and partner have them. Are we wearing smoothing glasses in those instances? Nope.

[eiknarf]

Originally Posted by Hatter

Photoshop handles those concerns already.
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Well, Photoshop is not for motion, moving imagery. Its for still images needing manipulation. But I know what ya mean. There must be some program, like After Effects, that allows touch up and such for motion/movies

[pentatonic]

Originally Posted by Hatter

Photoshop handles those concerns already for current stars.

General:

Skin defects. Who cares? You have them, I have them, your friends and partner have them. Are we wearing smoothing glasses in those instances? Nope.

Oh, I don't care, and am sure most don't also, but when they see their own faces I bet they will care lol.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by eiknarf

Just to play devil's advocate; I know these new movies and makeup benefit from the detail from high def... But, what about old films? Sometimes, rescanned and super clear isn't always beneficial to the makeup and effects of older films.

Well we don’t cotton to no devil’s advocacy here.
After scanning the material, it’s really easy to mitigate that sort of thing. For instance, from one popular color grading manufacturer (as an aside, Resolve 11 (the newest version was just announced at NAB 2014 a few days ago)…

Getting Started with DaVinci Resolve Lite :: Blur - YouTube

Conversely, if one cares to, you can also sharpen images….something which was done to selective objects in Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood… http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0955308/...ef_=tt_dt_spec

[Penton-Man]

^ Selective Defocus or ‘blur’ has been available for years in previous gen color grading software, e.g. from 2009 - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...ws#post2192537

[franken_psycho1990]

DVD compared to BD = Shit.
Don't get me wrong, I still watch DVDs... Only when a film I love is not yet released on BD.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Well we don’t cotton to no devil’s advocacy here.
After scanning the material, it’s really easy to mitigate that sort of thing. For instance, from one popular color grading manufacturer (as an aside, Resolve 11 (the newest version was just announced at NAB 2014 a few days ago)…

Getting Started with DaVinci Resolve Lite :: Blur - YouTube

Conversely, if one cares to, you can also sharpen images….something which was done to selective objects in Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood… http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0955308/...ef_=tt_dt_spec

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

^ Selective Defocus or ‘blur’ has been available for years in previous gen color grading software, e.g. from 2009 - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...ws#post2192537

To paraphrase the immortal Orson Welles, keep your damn crayons away from our pictures.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by franken_psycho1990

DVD compared to BD = Shit.
Don't get me wrong, I still watch DVDs... Only when a film I love is not yet released on BD.

That pretty much covers it!

[theprestige85]

Read the first page. Hostile thread. Calm down people.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by theprestige85

Read the first page. Hostile thread. Calm down people.

Everyone has calmed down, hence no posts for the last several days!

[eiknarf]

Actually, the arguing makes it more interesting.

Come on guys! Fight!

[steve1971]

Originally Posted by eiknarf

Actually, the arguing makes it more interesting.

Come on guys! Fight!

+ 1

[Scarface32]

One thing that really grinds my gears, is when the DVD gets better disc art than the Blu-ray. Here's two examples, one from Warner Bros. and the other from Disney.

[Blu-Dog]

Originally Posted by Scarface32

One thing that really grinds my gears, is when the DVD gets better disc art than the Blu-ray. Here's two examples, one from Warner Bros. and the other from Disney.

I can just picture someone standing in front of their rig, staring at a disc instead of playing a movie.

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by Blu-Dog

I can just picture someone standing in front of their rig, staring at a disc instead of playing a movie.

It's a legitimate complaint. There's no reason the BD couldn't have better cover art. Especially that WB one pictured, looks terrible.

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by Blu-Dog

I can just picture someone standing in front of their rig, staring at a disc instead of playing a movie.

lol yeah

Originally Posted by Scarface32

It's a legitimate complaint. There's no reason the BD couldn't have better cover art. Especially that WB one pictured, looks terrible.

it might be a legitimate complaint, it does not change it from being any less ridiculous. I agree with Blu-Dog, I decide what movie to watch, plop it out of the disk and put it in the player, I don't spend any time looking at the art, as long as I can tell what disk I want to use ASAP the rest is mostly irrelevant. I am there to watch a movie.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Anthony P

lol yeah


it might be a legitimate complaint, it does not change it from being any less ridiculous. I agree with Blu-Dog, I decide what movie to watch, plop it out of the disk and put it in the player, I don't spend any time looking at the art, as long as I can tell what disk I want to use ASAP the rest is mostly irrelevant. I am there to watch a movie.

It's irrelevant to you. If people didn't care about artwork, presentation etc.. There would not be collectors editions or unique packaging.

[Joe Cain]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

It's irrelevant to you. If people didn't care about artwork, presentation etc.. There would not be collectors editions or unique packaging.

And anyone who wants to pay a premium for that is welcome to.

What's on the flip side of the disc is rather more important, ultimately.

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

It's irrelevant to you. If people didn't care about artwork, presentation etc.. There would not be collectors editions or unique packaging.

two very different things. Collectors editions can have other merits (more content, gadgets....) and even if we are talking just packaging it is constantly visible in some form on the shelves, it can be a selling point of the movie (that looks interesting to watch) and if you have a group of people and making a decision is hard you can spend a bit of time looking at it (do I go with A, looks at A, or B, looks at B.....). Disk art is different, since it is not really visible except for the time it takes to open up the case, take the disk out and put it in the player (and the reverse). So unless someone has some odd use of the disk (which I took to be Blu-dog's point) it does not really change anything.

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by Joe Cain

And anyone who wants to pay a premium for that is welcome to.

What's on the flip side of the disc is rather more important, ultimately.

What premium? Some studios have since cheapened out on the disc art to save themselves additional money but you can guarantee that they haven't passed any of those savings onto the customer.