Official Casino Royale Reviews Discussion

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Well, and he is also comparing it to the times he saw it in the theater. The thing is, I'm in the opinion that digital video presentations can sometimes surpass many parameters of the average theater presentations with the right equipment. One of them can be image contrast. So maybe the disc is brighter and sharper than the theatrical and that is jarring to him. Second, if the transfer is made from the original camera elements or other pre-print elements, or digital files, the image can be clearer or less noisy/grainy, or the reverse have sharper grain than what you see in an average theater print, and start to be a subjectively "different" experience (I've already seen several BDs like this.) Also watching at different distances/viewing angles from how you watch in the theater screen can changes your perception of image quality. For example, at 2 TV screen widths, watching Bond it's like watching the film in the theater in the last row of the hall against the back wall, which is different to sitting in the middle or in the good front rows, and you might not see all the fine detail there is in the print (or the disc). Taking that parameter as an example, I know for certain that Chad Varnadore does his evaluations at theater viewing angles therefore for my own personal criteria I trust his High Def reviews to be discriminating enough for this.