Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) New Oct 2014 Blu Ray release?

[oddbox83]

I just watched this last night.

It's 24p this time. However, that's not a good thing! The disc is really horrific and I'm not keeping it.

It's one of the worst examples of DNR tampering I've seen. It's removing tons of genuine detail, one example of the detailed texturing on the turtles skin. It becomes almost invisible, I only realised it was there half way through. It's really smeary, posterised, blocky... As if it matters at this stage, both 2.0 and 5.1 tracks are lossy 192/448 encodes.

And the award for how to make a bad transfer worse goes to Medium Rare. I'm not touching their releases with a bargepole now. Genuinely, I'd have preferred the look of a good DVD upscale.

I'm also baffled by the extra. A making-of promo piece for the second film. What it does show though, that even a grainy old pan and scan analogue transfer is easier on the eye than the tripe on the disc. It's softer yet way more detailed.

To think I almost paid extra for the steelbook edition this. I'm so glad I only paid a fiver (Amazon's 2 for £10) for the standard edition because it's a waste of money.