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

[lgans316]

Even I feel the same on Almost Famous (Import) that looked only so-so on Blu-ray.

[Objectivity]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Well, if you like eye candy then check out this superb clip (trailer) ……….
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/thefall/hd/

^
And speaking of David Fincher, did anyone see the trailer for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Cate Blanchett, Julia Ormand, Brad Pitt, etc.) at any showings of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?

Looked purty cool.

I'm indifferent to Brad Pitt as an actor, but I'm typically a huge fan of the types of movies that he makes. He's usually in movies that I want to see, not because he's in them but because of the topics and themes. I even enjoyed Meet Joe Black. The screenwriter/director butchered that by removing the main characters from a life that most audience member could relate to, but Pitt revealing to Claire Forlani who he is and her reaction (all without dialog until the very end) is incredible.

I curious though how Benjamin Buttons will affect The Time Traveler's Wife, which is also supposed to come out this holiday season (last I heard). I'm sure they will be marketed differently and have much different prestige levels, but in the loosest of descriptions they're very similar movies. I'm just hoping TTW the movie is half as good as the book.

[WickyWoo]

I'm indifferent to Brad Pitt as an actor, but I'm typically a huge fan of the types of movies that he makes. He's usually in movies that I want to see, not because he's in them but because of the topics and themes. I even enjoyed Meet Joe Black. The screenwriter/director butchered that by removing the main characters from a life that most audience member could relate to, but Pitt revealing to Claire Forlani who he is and her reaction (all without dialog until the very end) is incredible.

That's how I am with a lot of people. I'm a fan of their project choices more than I of of their individual talent

[Ben]

Sorry to hijack Penton's thread with this, but movie fans everywhere should be bowing their heads to the great Sidney Pollack today. He was an amazing talent.

Penton, any personal recollections about Mr. Pollack that you can share with us?

[welwynnick]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

That's how I am with a lot of people. I'm a fan of their project choices more than I of of their individual talent

Me too. My wife always likes Denzil Washington films, but I really don't care for him. However, she recently persuaded me that that he has a high hit-rate on good films, and I'm reluctantly obliged to agree with her. I don't want to go and see HIM, but I do want to see his FILMs.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by lgans316

CRANK - features excessive edge enhancement that was intentionally added by its filmmakers

Anyone dare to comment on the above ?

1. How does he know that?
Did he speak to the filmmakers or does he have a vivid, photographic recollection of the theatrical presentation, of which he makes no mention of ?

2. I suggest you read this post (I just edited it, coloring the important part in red for easy reading)……………..
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...postcount=1837

3. Perhaps during post, the colorist selectively sharpened the 480 capture sequences to flow seamlessly with the 1080p stuff ? The Canon XL-2 (listed in the later provided imdb link) was marred by aliasing artifacts and possibly an adaptive edge enhancement algorithm was utilized out of necessity in the post production.

4. Compression causes sharpening to look more pronounced so his “proof” of this claim by providing .jpg images is inherently flawed to begin with.

5. If he is attempting to convey the idea that the sharpening was exclusively applied during the production of the HD master by the post house or subsequently by the actual Blu-ray compressionist, then it is debatable whether or not the filmmakers “intended it” as this is not what I would classify as a high profile title in which the filmmakers rode shotgun over for the entire process.

6. I haven’t seen the film in the theater or on Blu-ray, so I have no idea if *annoying* EE is present but, I can tell you that Jason S. looks sharp in real life and once dated my former Sony Cierge until she recently became engaged to a ……(Brain Sturgeon alert) –




fourth year medical student from Boston.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Ben

Sorry to hijack Penton's thread with this, but movie fans everywhere should be bowing their heads to the great Sidney Pollack today. He was an amazing talent.

Penton, any personal recollections about Mr. Pollack that you can share with us?

Not at this time.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by welwynnick

Me too. My wife always likes Denzil Washington films, but I really don't care for him. However, she recently persuaded me that that he has a high hit-rate on good films, and I'm reluctantly obliged to agree with her. I don't want to go and see HIM, but I do want to see his FILMs.

He’s one of the nicest guys you could ever meet in real life, plus.......
he's a Qualia 006 owner.

Shows he has good taste in video displays.

[Penton-Man]

Here’s everyone’s chance to make a real difference in this world. Every little bit helps……..

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/paulsbraintrust/

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Here’s everyone’s chance to make a real difference in this world. Every little bit helps……..

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/paulsbraintrust/

^ ^ ^ ^

More info from Bill…………
http://thedigitalbits.com/#mytwocents

And be sure to check in there, as he says……. “tomorrow at Noon (Pacific) for our special event announcement”.

[WickyWoo]

I assure you guys, you'll want to check that out

[Brain Sturgeon]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

...

I can tell you that Jason S. looks sharp in real life and once dated my former Sony Cierge until she recently became engaged to a ……(Brain Sturgeon alert) –

fourth year medical student from Boston.

Wow, a (future) MD beating out "Handsome Rob"-- must be a McDreamy or McSteamy type. I guess George Clooney was a pediatrician once...

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Here’s everyone’s chance to make a real difference in this world. Every little bit helps……..

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/paulsbraintrust/

Man, a lot of brain cancer going around these days. First Teddy K, and then Mr. Prischman. Thoughts and prayers out to them both.

From Bill's column, I am shocked that his insurance wouldn't cover all of his "standard of care" treatment (resection, radiation, chemo). Just pisses me off more and more these days...

[CAB]

A humble off topic request from a Blu-ray supporter that has owned or purchased for others a BDP-S1, BDP-S300, and a BDP-S500, three PS3s, and over 300 Blu-ray movie titles:

Please let the good people at Sony who make Blu-ray standalones know that there are other operating systems than those make by the M$. While I understand that Sony's PCs support only M$ O$s there are those of us who actually live outside The Matrix. I use Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X (a.k.a BSD). I shouldn't have to suffer through finding a backlevel version of stuffit or running Parallels/VMware Fusion to get the standalone player .exe files expanded into .iso before I burn them to an optical format.

I support several friends who own Blu standalones. I'm on the verge of refusing support of both them and Sony because of the needless pain Sony causes. .iso is a standard. .exe is a virus.

Edit: I download the .iso from Pioneer and I've yet to read a complaint from a single user on any forum about skipping the OS proprietary step or the needless expansion of an already small file. Got .zip?

Good day.

[HeavyHitter]

Penton (or any other insider),

I know there's been more and more discussion lately on DNR and such; is it being conveyed to studios that most of us do not want to see it? I'm fearful of more and more Blu-ray titles being ruined by it. In addition, some studios (Paramount and New Line, for example) seem to be more guilty than others of it. Can you fill us in more on what's happening behind-the-scenes?

[WickyWoo]

lease let the good people at Sony who make Blu-ray standalones know that there are other operating systems than those make by the M$. While I understand that Sony's PCs support only M$ O$s there are those of us who actually live outside The Matrix. I use Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X (a.k.a BSD). I shouldn't have to suffer through finding a backlevel version of stuffit or running Parallells/VMware Fusion to get the standalone player .exe files expanded into .iso before I burn them to an optical format.

.exe is just a self extracting zip file, nothing more

Your zip program should open it just like it would any zip file

And any PC will run linux. MacOS won't run on any PC without...assistance because of Apple's use of a chip on the motherboard that validates you have indeed paid them for the computer.

[CAB]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

.exe is just a self extracting zip file, nothing more

Your zip program should open it just like it would any zip file

And any PC will run linux. MacOS won't run on any PC without...assistance because of Apple's use of a chip on the motherboard that validates you have indeed paid them for the computer.

The .exe Sony distributes is NOT a binary that is native to any OS but Microsoft thus their request for input into which MICROSOFT OS I'm running. I'm very not sure what CPU my motherboard has to do with anything a Layer 6 or Layer 7 issues. Yep, stuffit expander version 10 might know what to do with it but ver11 and ver12 do not. Yep, I can run Windows via bootcamp. Yep, I could run VMware or Parallels and move the .iso to a different file system to burn the CD/DVD. Yep, I can run Windows on my Intel CPU based machine. I can do a lot of things that the normal user cannot. Why does Pioneer use a open standard and Sony does not.

Perhaps I've been writing device drivers and compilers in assembly and machine code for too long and just want a break from maintaining my home for a while. I look forward to Penton's and Sony's input.

Edit: I can compromise. Put the .iso into a .zip. Heck, put release notes, install instructions and credit card information in EBSIDC or nibble-swap binary for all it matters. I can't think of a OS from the past 10 years that can't unpackage a .zip

[WickyWoo]

Penton knows nothing about computers

[Alan Gordon]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

Penton knows nothing about computers

Penton, are you using a PS3 or a Ouija board to post?

~Alan

[Rob Tomlin]

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[CAB]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

Penton knows nothing about computers

I don't know him personally; not spoken with him; never PM'd him; never had a response from him on a post. I'm asking him to forward the request on to people he knows in Sony. I won't sell him so short as you. I tried to keep this above geekdom but wasn't allowed. I'm trying to help the average buyer of a SONY product support their own product. I'm trying to help Blu-ray.