Sound & Vision:SP has NO firm plans for TFE rerelease - Blu-ray Forum

4K display · 10-01-2006, 02:03 AM

S&V magazine October 2006
"Sony Pictures is now telling us there are no firm plans to rerelease The Fifth Element on Blu-ray. C'est la vie..."

PeterTHX · 10-01-2006, 02:04 AM

Makes sense if they can't get a better picture "element".

The Digital Bits reported that Sony Pictures used the best version available and the Blu-ray looks transparent to the master, flaws and all.

4K display · 10-01-2006, 02:12 AM

Then they need to send a print off to Lowry Digital and do this title justice.
A flawless TFE will sell Blu-ray machines...IMO

JTK · 10-01-2006, 02:19 AM

^^ Good idea! Something's got to be done.

WriteSimply · 10-01-2006, 04:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 4K display

Then they need to send a print off to Lowry Digital and do this title justice.
A flawless TFE will sell Blu-ray machines...IMO

It's DTS Digital Images now, not Lowry. Yep, DTS will be making quite big sums of dollars for a while.

That being said, there is a clear line that divides movies produced before digital intermediates and digital color correction was present and after. Too often now, I see movies where the colors are tweaked that exhibit ringing around the edges. The sky is an odd shade of blue while the foreground and the talent looks natural. The technologies of digital filmmaking are not being used properly. There is still a lot of experimentation going on.

At least with TFE and a small number of films made before DI and DCC were prevalent, the directors chose the best shot of the best take. Not many directors have the budget and money like George Lucas, who took the best take and put them in the best shot in his SW films.

fuad

phloyd · 10-02-2006, 12:30 AM

I borrowed a Samsung player (recent build) and had 5th E running.

A friend of ours saw it and commented over and over how great it looked. Which I thought was funny since it is commonly regarded as the worst looking BD disc.

In any case, I am not sure if it is the NR circuit or my CRT TV is forgiving but it looked hell of a lot better than the time I saw it in Fry's playing on a Samsung LCD TV.

I remember it looking pretty damned bad before and on my set up it looks quite good.

I will try to get a chance to compare it to the broadcast. For House of FLying Daggers, the BD was about even with the broadcast in clarity and beat it hands down for lack of artifacts in the action scenes.

10-01-2006, 02:03 AM	#1
4K display Active Member Member since:Sep 2006 Location:Alberta Home Theater Gallery:1 Trading Score:1	Sound & Vision:SP has NO firm plans for TFE rerelease S&V magazine October 2006 "Sony Pictures is now telling us there are no firm plans to rerelease The Fifth Element on Blu-ray. C'est la vie..."

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10-01-2006, 02:04 AM	#2
PeterTHX Banned Top contributor Member since:Sep 2006 Blu-ray collection:563 Trading Score:14	Makes sense if they can't get a better picture "element". The Digital Bits reported that Sony Pictures used the best version available and the Blu-ray looks transparent to the master, flaws and all.

10-01-2006, 02:12 AM	#3
4K display Active Member Member since:Sep 2006 Location:Alberta Home Theater Gallery:1 Trading Score:1	Then they need to send a print off to Lowry Digital and do this title justice. A flawless TFE will sell Blu-ray machines...IMO

10-01-2006, 02:19 AM	#4
JTK Blu-ray Knight Member since:Jan 2006 Location:www.blurayoasis.com	^^ Good idea! Something's got to be done.

10-02-2006, 12:30 AM	#6
phloyd Blu-ray Guru Member since:Dec 2003 Location:California Trading Score:5	I borrowed a Samsung player (recent build) and had 5th E running. A friend of ours saw it and commented over and over how great it looked. Which I thought was funny since it is commonly regarded as the worst looking BD disc. In any case, I am not sure if it is the NR circuit or my CRT TV is forgiving but it looked hell of a lot better than the time I saw it in Fry's playing on a Samsung LCD TV. I remember it looking pretty damned bad before and on my set up it looks quite good. I will try to get a chance to compare it to the broadcast. For House of FLying Daggers, the BD was about even with the broadcast in clarity and beat it hands down for lack of artifacts in the action scenes.

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