Lolita (1997)

[Akijama]

Lolita Blu-ray

Coming from Capelight Pictures.

https://www.facebook.com/capelightpi...998020/?type=1

[Member-222782]

Best news I've heard in a long time. Thanks, Akijama.

Love this film. If you can get past the controversial subject matter this is actually a terrific little film with great performances.

I have some Capelight Blu-rays. I wonder if this will be in some kind of special packaging.

[tylerdurden10]

Thanks for the update! Another great catalog title getting released in Germany, might as well just name them the "official Country for releasing all of the catalog titles I want".

[Sky71]

A+++

[Member-222782]

Any news on this release?

[Jompa]

Originally Posted by cine74

Any news on this release?

Yes, they will release it in November: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Lolita-Blu-ray/109852/

[ionsi]

Originally Posted by cine74

I have some Capelight Blu-rays. I wonder if this will be in some kind of special packaging.

I don't think so. It's 14,99 for preorder. Doesn't sound like special packaging for me. But a nice amaray can't be despised.

[jono3000]

Release date now November 17th 2014

[Jompa]

I got an email saying that. I have updated the release date.

[tylerdurden10]

Mine was shipped a few days ago, if any US member needs region coding on this, just let me know.

[SwissHD]

I have received the disk last night.

It is a very good Disc!
The Master ist very grainy. Some people will hate that.
I like it because it looks like film and not video.
DNR is not used on this. Sometimes the grain is heavy.
Picture looks good in Motion. I didn't expect it to look that good to be honest.
It blows the German DVD i had out of the water. Huge improvement!

Comparison with my German DVD:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/100894

A strange move is the Audio on this. Altough the cover list the english Audio as DTS HD Master Audio it is only normal DTS.
The Bitrate for Video is insane. So i guess they had to make this choice to maintain the high bitrate encoding for the picture.
So they choose to give only the german Dub a HD Treatment.
A bit akward is the choice to encode the Audio Commentary in LPCM 2.0 wit 2,3 MB/s instead of just Dolby Digital 2.0 with 192kbps.
And the German DTS HD Audio is 24-Bit. I think if they would have encoded the german Audio with 16 Bit and the Audio Commentary with standard DD Sound the English Audio could be also in DTS HD Master Audio.But im not an encoding expert.
And to be honest: This is a drama and not an Action movie.
I don't think HD Sound is that important here

I would recommend this Blu Ray to anybody who loves the movie.
Without a doubt the best way to watch it.

BD Info Scan:

DISC INFO:

Disc Title:     Lolita
Disc Size:      49'733'281'453 bytes
Protection:     AACS
BD-Java:        No
BDInfo:         0.5.4

PLAYLIST REPORT:

Name:                   00004.MPLS
Length:                 2:17:40 (h:m:s)
Size:                   43'518'019'584 bytes
Total Bitrate:          42.15 Mbps

VIDEO:

Codec                   Bitrate             Description     
-----                   -------             -----------     
MPEG-4 AVC Video        32995 kbps          1080p / 24 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1

AUDIO:

Codec                           Language        Bitrate         Description     
-----                           --------        -------         -----------     
DTS-HD Master Audio             German          3869 kbps       5.1 / 48 kHz / 3869 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
DTS Audio                       English         768 kbps        5.1 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 24-bit
LPCM Audio                      English         2304 kbps       2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit

SUBTITLES:

Codec                           Language        Bitrate         Description     
-----                           --------        -------         -----------     
Presentation Graphics           German          0.103 kbps                      
Presentation Graphics           German          28.553 kbps

[Mansinthe]

still it sucks that they used HD-Master for the german dub and LPCM for the commentary track. DTS-HR for all 3 tracks should have worked as well.

[SwissHD]

Originally Posted by Mansinthe

still it sucks that they used HD-Master for the german dub and LPCM for the commentary track. DTS-HR for all 3 tracks should have worked as well.

Its a bit strange yes but i dont think anyone could hear a difference to be honest.
This is not an action packed movie with a very detailed sound.

And im glad they spent so much attention to the picture. Especially because the master is very very grainy.
I really didn't expect this blu ray to look THAT good.

[Jompa]

Damn it. Only a DTS track for the original audio. I'm very disappointed. The dialog/music will suffer. I pre-ordered this because i expected the orginal audio to have lossless audio.

[felixemartinez]

Originally Posted by SwissHD

I have received the disk last night.

It is a very good Disc!
The Master ist very grainy. Some people will hate that.
I like it because it looks like film and not video.
DNR is not used on this. Sometimes the grain is heavy.
Picture looks good in Motion. I didn't expect it to look that good to be honest.
It blows the German DVD i had out of the water. Huge improvement!

Comparison with my German DVD:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/100894

A strange move is the Audio on this. Altough the cover list the english Audio as DTS HD Master Audio it is only normal DTS.
The Bitrate for Video is insane. So i guess they had to make this choice to maintain the high bitrate encoding for the picture.
So they choose to give only the german Dub a HD Treatment.
A bit akward is the choice to encode the Audio Commentary in LPCM 2.0 wit 2,3 MB/s instead of just Dolby Digital 2.0 with 192kbps.
And the German DTS HD Audio is 24-Bit. I think if they would have encoded the german Audio with 16 Bit and the Audio Commentary with standard DD Sound the English Audio could be also in DTS HD Master Audio.But im not an encoding expert.
And to be honest: This is a drama and not an Action movie.
I don't think HD Sound is that important here

I would recommend this Blu Ray to anybody who loves the movie.
Without a doubt the best way to watch it.

Thanks for the info. Apologies if this has been addressed - is it region free or Region A compatible for U.S.?

[Mansinthe]

Originally Posted by Jompa

Damn it. Only a DTS track for the original audio. I'm very disappointed. The dialog/music will suffer. I pre-ordered this because i expected the orginal audio to have lossless audio.

they do this sometimes on german releases. german dub gets HD-Master or both audio tracks get only DTS-HR.

this has even been done to the Star Wars collection.

[Clark Kent]

First, the Blu-ray's transfer seems to have somewhat drastically tweaked the color timing. It's definitely a new film transfer, the sizable increase in detail and resolution are unquestionably of recent vintage. Some would almost certainly call the changes in color tonality a revisionist take. I'm not sure it adheres very closely to the original cinematography, though it certainly looks very good in most of those screen caps.

Screenshot #4 is a good example of the difference.

[pro-bassoonist]

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

First, the Blu-ray's transfer seems to have somewhat drastically tweaked the color timing.

Precisely the opposite is true.

It is beyond obvious that the old transfer for the DVD was incredibly poor -- colors are oversaturated (so that's where the "tweaking" comes from), contrast is blown out all over the place and actually can fool one to believe that there is more white in certain areas, and shadow definition is very problematic on the DVD.

I don't see any signs of revisionism here. Actually, the people that did the transfer for the Blu-ray were most certainly quite careful.

Pro-B

[Member-222782]

I can safely dispose of my DVD then. May end up keeping the box as I vastly prefer that art over the new simplistic design of the Blu-ray. So I'll have a DVD-sized Blu-ray, no big deal

On a side note, you can actually see the rain spouts at the top of the frame of screenshot #10

[Clark Kent]

Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist

Precisely the opposite is true.

It is beyond obvious that the old transfer for the DVD was incredibly poor -- colors are oversaturated (so that's where the "tweaking" comes from), contrast is blown out all over the place and actually can fool one to believe that there is more white in certain areas, and shadow definition is very problematic on the DVD.

I don't see any signs of revisionism here. Actually, the people that did the transfer for the Blu-ray were most certainly quite careful.

Pro-B

This Lolita always had a warm, distinct look to it. The changes in contrast and gamma in certain shots are incorrect on the Blu-ray transfer, no matter the limitations found on a 1998 DVD.

On the whole, it's a solid film transfer with some revisionism. Better than I was expecting, going off the screenshots.