28 Days Later - PQ

[MacEachaidh]

Originally Posted by mayorofsmpleton

In the case of 28 Days Later, however, it is an ugly film no matter how you cut it. The BD replicates that perfectly. It's a great presentation of the film.

Yeah, I'm not convinced. I get the bit about the gritty quality of the image due to how it was shot, but I think in addition to that the image has been processed with edge enhancement, which makes it look even worse. I hadn't seen this BD transfer before this, but I'm just now comparing the BD with the DVD on the same equipment, and there's definitely haloing, motion and colour blur and a general aliased fuzziness around the edges of almost any colour differential on-screen, way beyond what appears in the DVD image. In fact, on my screen, the BD often looks like an over-duped VHS.

If Sony had directly encoded the camcorder image to the Blu, I could possibly understand the claim of "this is what the director intended" (remembering he made that comment about the DVD, not the BD transfer). But comparing it to the DVD, I don't think that's what Sony did.