Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust coming to Blu-ray in 2015 from Discotek

[vincentric]

Got my hands on the Urban Vision DVD. I matched each of my Discotek BD caps with comparisons of my own from the DVD with very interesting results.

The DVD is slightly windowboxed whereas the BD is not but a little bit of the BD picture is cropped horizontally as a result. It's overall negligible.

The BD has cleaner line detail and improved picture clarity over the DVD. Best of all, compression is greatly reduced if not eliminated altogether allowing the film grain to look very fine and natural. See comparison's 10 and 25 for best look at compression elimination.

But here's where things get interesting.

The BD should be the clear winner but it's not. The DVD contains better contrast. The BD looses shadow and color detail in both dark and bright areas of its picture. Best example of loss in white detail can be seen in comparison 14 - the lamps on the stagecoach. Best example of black crush are apparent in many of the screenshots, but the clearest one is seen in the last (28th) comparison - there are shades of red clearly visible in the DVD that are crushed away in the BD.

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