Apocalypse Now last night on 7mate vs the Blu-Ray

[Blu-21]

Just a question. I haven't seen or own the Blu-Ray but I watched it last night on 7mate. Anyway, are the HD scans of the film, like previous home release version incorrect in terms of aspect ratio and colour? Because I've heard that its only the Blu-Ray that corrects these issues. I can't say I was too impressed with the picture quality shown on 7mate due to a lot of print damage. I'm assuming the Blu-Ray cleaned up these issues too?

[80sfanboy]

I have the metal slip edition and mine looks fantastic. Colours are a little bit over saturated in certain scenes but it's solid to me

[Blu-21]

Originally Posted by 80sfanboy

I have the metal slip edition and mine looks fantastic. Colours are a little bit over saturated in certain scenes but it's solid to me

How about the print damage? I'm assuming that was cleaned up for the Blu-Ray release? Because it was evident on both my 32" and my 55" HD TV's on 7mate.

[aussiedude]

Originally Posted by Blu-21

Just a question. I haven't seen or own the Blu-Ray but I watched it last night on 7mate. Anyway, are the HD scans of the film, like previous home release version incorrect in terms of aspect ratio and colour? Because I've heard that its only the Blu-Ray that corrects these issues. I can't say I was too impressed with the picture quality shown on 7mate due to a lot of print damage. I'm assuming the Blu-Ray cleaned up these issues too?

if you are watching 7Mate on anything larger than a 40" TV you might as well as compare it to a DVD the FTA HD channels are all a blocky clusterf**k, Hell some of the HD channels on Foxtel are not that great but miles better than any of the FTA ones. the Blu ray would be way better. cant say ive had time to watch it. i got the Full Disclosure Edition but havent watched it or taken it out of the shrink Wrap yet.

another thing the 7Mate one would of been the TV safe version and not the "R rated Cut"

[Blu-21]

Originally Posted by aussiedude

if you are watching 7Mate on anything larger than a 40" TV you might as well as compare it to a DVD the FTA HD channels are all a blocky clusterf**k, Hell some of the HD channels on Foxtel are not that great but miles better than any of the FTA ones. the Blu ray would be way better. cant say ive had time to watch it. i got the Full Disclosure Edition but havent watched it or taken it out of the shrink Wrap yet.

another thing the 7Mate one would of been the TV safe version and not the "R rated Cut"

I agree that the FTA HD channels in general aren't perfect and when a complex diverse of colours are involved particularly in a fast moving image, it does tend to get blocky with a lot of ugly arfacting and compression which is super noticeable on my 55" HD TV, but TV shows and movies that are scanned from good clean sources can still look pretty damn good in HD; much better then SD channels or DVDs. I have no doubt the Blu-Ray would be way better because I'm going to guess that it was also remastered and cleaned up of print damage that the HD broadcast I was watching suffered from.

[80sfanboy]

Originally Posted by Blu-21

How about the print damage? I'm assuming that was cleaned up for the Blu-Ray release? Because it was evident on both my 32" and my 55" HD TV's on 7mate.

I wasn't looking out for it man. I honestly didn't pick up on anything that bothered me though. I think there were certain smoked out scenes that were too bloated out and looks very intrusive but I imagine that was the whole point. Sorry I couldn't be of more help, but hey I think it looks great. You can borrow it if you're from Adelaide?

[Blu-21]

Originally Posted by 80sfanboy

I wasn't looking out for it man. I honestly didn't pick up on anything that bothered me though. I think there were certain smoked out scenes that were too bloated out and looks very intrusive but I imagine that was the whole point. Sorry I couldn't be of more help, but hey I think it looks great. You can borrow it if you're from Adelaide?

Fair enough, thanks for responding anyway. Also I appreciate the offer, but I live in Melbourne.

[deepbreathsanddeath]

I have the 3-disc release of Apocalypse Now on blu-ray and it looks absolutely stunning. One of my favourite blu-ray's.