Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Theatrical Versions) - April 6, 2010 - Page 309 - Blu-ray Forum

SquidPuppet · 03-29-2010, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by O_V_N

Lame. Clearly it was to pick the "best" shots and not have reviewers pick the mediocre ones.

They said that cantractual agreements with certain actors prevented their images being shown bla bla bla. Likelyhood of that? Dunno.

Damage Inc. · 03-29-2010, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by mredman

Actually, some of those kinda remind me of DVD...
Think you just have to have a good eye and idea what you're looking at.

Grand Bob · 03-29-2010, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Diesel

....that was an early April Fool's joke

What is the accepted time frame for such jokes? Mid-March to March 31? And, is there a window for late April Fool's jokes?

P@t_Mtl · 03-29-2010, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

They said that cantractual agreements with certain actors prevented their images being shown bla bla bla. Likelyhood of that? Dunno.

That would not be too surprising actualy. Some of these demands on contracts can be weird

SquidPuppet · 03-29-2010, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Diesel

You're viewing the world in too much of a narrow way P@t

Narrow is the wrong word to use when describing a vertical dimension. I cant believe you graduated pre-school.

mredman · 03-29-2010, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Damage Inc.

Actually, some of those kinda remind me of DVD...
Think you just have to have a good eye and idea what you're looking at.

What??

They don't look like DVD at all the resolution is much bigger
http://img.filmsactu.com/datas/dvd/l...40756db526.jpg

SquidPuppet · 03-29-2010, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Wolverine1980

Well they own the media being used for the screen grabs and they supply the screeners used to make them so it stands to reason they could tell reviewers what they are and are not allowed to do with the screeners.

Absolutely. But what are the reasons?

Diesel · 03-29-2010, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Mahatma

Damn.Pretty much showed my cards then didn't I

Just a little

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Originally Posted by Blu-Benny

hellz yeah they do!!!

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Originally Posted by Grand Bob

What is the accepted time frame for such jokes? Mid-March to March 31? And, is there a window for late April Fool's jokes?

I think the only day it is acceptable is April 1st personally

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Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

Narrow is the wrong word to use when describing a vertical dimension. I cant believe you graduated pre-school.

And I wrote it while sitting in the student union of my University

SquidPuppet · 03-29-2010, 07:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Sith

I don't have Gangs in front of me, but was that released by Disney or just a company they own?

Disney.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Gangs...k-Blu-ray/788/

Damage Inc. · 03-29-2010, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by mredman

What??

They don't look like DVD at all the resolution is much bigger
http://img.filmsactu.com/datas/dvd/l...40756db526.jpg

Not the size, the quality...
Look at Frodo's eyes or face in the first one for example,
there seems to be slight blocking or some kind of straight lines.

I also noticed a weird thing in the 3rd image you linked,
on the top left of the ring there's some kind of weird horizontal line.
What's up with flaws like that?...

The good screenshots still outweigh the bad ones for as far as I've seen though.
A whole bunch are impressive, a smaller bunch are... not good, for Blu-ray.

SquidPuppet · 03-29-2010, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Diesel

Just a little

I think the only day it is acceptable is April 1st personally

And I wrote it while sitting in the student union of my University

I love giving you a hard time because you "get it"

Which is amazing, considering how slow you are.

Paulst10 · 03-29-2010, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by DetroitSportsFan

Another evil screencap comparison from that evil website....

[Show spoiler]

What's the timestamp for that ?

Diesel · 03-29-2010, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Damage Inc.

Not the size, the quality...
Look at Frodo's eyes or face in the first one for example,
there seems to be slight blocking or some kind of straight lines.

I also noticed a weird thing in the 3rd image you linked,
on the top left of the ring there's some kind of weird horizontal line.
What's up with flaws like that?...

The good screenshots still outweigh the bad ones for as far as I've seen though.
A whole bunch are impressive, a smaller bunch are... not good, for Blu-ray.

How in the world did you spot that

I had to zoom in and get right up on the screen to see it.

Diesel · 03-29-2010, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

I love giving you a hard time because you "get it"

Which is amazing, considering how slow you are.

Hell yea!....wait...

[Show spoiler]

mredman · 03-29-2010, 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Damage Inc.

Not the size, the quality...
Look at Frodo's eyes or face in the first one for example,
there seems to be slight blocking or some kind of straight lines.

I also noticed a weird thing in the 3rd image you linked,
on the top left of the ring there's some kind of weird horizontal line.
What's up with flaws like that?...

The good screenshots still outweigh the bad ones for as far as I've seen though.
A whole bunch are impressive, a smaller bunch are... not good, for Blu-ray.

So what about the 2 here that have seen it and are saying they don't look as bad as those bad screen shots that have been posted. And no reviewer has said it looks as bad as the DVD all has said it is an upgrade

And the screenshots i posted is not bad at all they do show detail

SquidPuppet · 03-29-2010, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Diesel

Hell yea!....wait...

[Show spoiler]

I hate bad PQ, but I really dont understand why people care so much since

[Show spoiler]

Damage Inc. · 03-29-2010, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Diesel

How in the world did you spot that

I had to zoom in and get right up on the screen to see it.

I don't know, I just had a look at the details.
But what I do is just look at the image at 100%, not smaller and not zoomed in either.
I just have a quite regular-sized monitor too, but it's very sharp.

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Originally Posted by mredman

So what about the 2 here that have seen it and are saying they don't look as bad as those bad screen shots that have been posted. And no reviewer has said it looks as bad as the DVD all has said it is an upgrade

And the screenshots i posted is not bad at all they do show detail

For the first part it's just that the quality, like some of those flaws you can see,
just remind me of what some films looks like on DVD.
Not that it's just as bad as DVD, cause first of all the resolution is already larger and it is a new transfer.
Yet it's not flawless as you can see, even though there is more detail than on DVD obviously.

It might definitely looks better in motion too, that's usually the case.
But... with screenshots you put the image under the microscope as it were,
so it's a clearer way to see what the quality is actually like.

I bet it looks great in motion, but perhaps still not as good as transfers
that are considered better by most people.

Ken Brown · 03-29-2010, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by mredman

Oh come on the bluray does not look like that. If you really believe that not even Gangs looked like that. If it would look like that the reviewers giving it bad reviews would have given it half star in PQ

Paul and Adam plese tell us that this picture is complete false on how it looks?

I took a very similar screenshot from that exact scene for my review. Looking at the image I took (as we speak), I can attest that the lefthand portion of the comparison is exactly what the scene on the Blu-ray edition looks like, heavy DNR and all. Worse, the DNR is as noticeable in motion as it is in the static image. Sorry guys, I wish I could say otherwise, but it's the truth. If our screenshots were still live, you could see the striking (or not-so-striking, as it were) similarities for yourselves.

[Show spoiler]

Notice righthand Gandalf is still soft, but not the same breed of soft as lefthand Gandalf

Several people who saw my screenshots even sent me a PM to verify that I hadn't posted DVD screenshots for comparison purposes. I had to assure them that they were taken from the BD.

DetroitSportsFan · 03-29-2010, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Ken Brown

I took a very similar screenshot from that exact scene for my review. Looking at the image I took (as we speak), I can attest that the lefthand portion of the comparison is exactly what the scene on the Blu-ray edition looks like, heavy DNR and all. Worse, the DNR is as noticeable in motion as it is in the static image. Sorry guys, I wish I could say otherwise, but it's the truth. If our screenshots were still live, you could see the striking (or not-so-striking, as it were) similarities for yourselves.

[Show spoiler]

Thanks for "keeping it real" Ken.

Kalekulan · 03-29-2010, 08:28 PM

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