What movies have had better conversions on DVD then Blu-Ray?

[voltz]

I think I want to take a shot at Mortal Kombat Annihilation to start off. The double side DVD has a print that is closer to a realistic color tone, while the blu looks like they went and over-enhanced it. This is specifically why I keep the copy around so I can view that on small occasions.

Matrix as well for the lack of green.

[BladeRunner2007]

If we are talking about color timing I agree with The Matrix. I'd also add The Road Warrior to this list: the much warmer, brown-orange-ish color timing fits the movie much better than the bleak, cold, desaturated colors present on the blu-ray.

[lostdistance]

The Spanish - and AFAIK only - Blu-ray release of Intermezzo (1936) is inferior to the Swedish DVD release.

The Blu-ray is encoded with MPEG-2 MP@HL, 1080i@50Hz. Compared to the DVD, the Blu-ray exhibits edge cropping and increased contrast which loses shadow detail.

[gaastra]

The first for the love of Benji Blu-ray was awful. Got it for my niece to watch and it has worse picture then the vhs release!

It has a new release so i hope they fixed it but stay clear of that first release!

[karsten]

-Bram Stoker's Dracula. I far prefer the more natural Superbit colors to those of the blu-ray that I bought (which was the first one that was released). I haven't obtained the 4k, so I don't know how that one compares, color-wise, but the caps-a-holic caps suggest that it could be even worse.

-V: The Original Miniseries. Preferred colors again.

-Fantasia (1940). The blu-ray is so drastically recolored and brightened from its DVD and LD issues that it looks like an altogether different movie, and loses a lot of its magic.

-Fellowship of the Ring: Extended Edition. The blu-ray is soaked in a heavily greenish digital tint that many viewers have complained about.

-Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones. The blu-ray has been slathered with a teal filter. Ugh.

-Krull. The DVD has natural, appealing colors. On the blu-ray, although the resolution and PQ is far superior, the colors are garish -- as if the film had been remade shot for shot with a modern video camera, and the saturation turned WAY up. Trying to get the blu-ray to look natural is almost impossible. One needs to turn up the blue to take out the sallow yellow coat, adjust the tint to keep the skin tones from becomes beet red as a result, and turn the saturation way, WAY down, and still it never looks right. Plus, the DVD appears to have post-production sky filtering that the blu-ray removed -- again, leading to that artificial, home-video look.

-Crocodile Dundee. Typical blu-ray color issue: teals and greens pushed up, blues and pinks pushed down, blue skies look teal, clear skies look sallow, and moonlight isn't blue but green. The DVD colors, by contrast, are all natural and true.



There are also a host of films that I'm considering not upgrading to blu-ray from DVD at all (Road Warrior being one of them), out of color-tampering concerns, based on caps I've seen online. A consistent problem seems to be huge injections of teal, or pea-green, or sallow yellow, or some combination of all three.


EDIT TO ADD:

How could I forget the granddaddy of them all?

-Star Wars IV-VI. The unaltered, original trilogy has only ever been released on DVD, never (yet) on blu-ray. The blu-rays versions are worse in all sorts of ways, beyond color changes.

[Jay H.]

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