IMAX Enhanced

[sapiendut]

Originally Posted by lgans316

IMAX enhanced aka THX-2 plus grain reduction sounds like marriage made in heaven.

If anything, THX retains a movie’s integrity. No messing up with NR, aspect ratip and/or sound mix.

[Auditor55]

Originally Posted by FilmFreakosaurus

Grain reduction is almost always taken too far. You end up with wax figures. No thanks!

I would take some grain reduction because some of these 4K HDR releases are abysmal, so much noise and grain makes them unwatchable.

[FilmFreakosaurus]

Originally Posted by Auditor55

I would take some grain reduction because some of these 4K HDR releases are abysmal, so much noise and grain makes them unwatchable.

Which ones are those that you think are unwatchable? You do realize that grain is a natural occurrence when using real film stock. It actually contains some of the film's texture.

[sapiendut]

Originally Posted by FilmFreakosaurus

Which ones are those that you think are unwatchable? You do realize that grain is a natural occurrence when using real film stock. It actually contains some of the film's texture.

Ghostbusters, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Rambo 2, amongst many others

[DJR662]

Originally Posted by Auditor55

I would take some grain reduction because some of these 4K HDR releases are abysmal, so much noise and grain makes them unwatchable.

There's only one abysmal and unwatchable UHD and that is Terminator 2.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by sapiendut

Ghostbusters, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Rambo 2, amongst many others

Rambo 2? Wut? It's got some lovely fine grain on that and quite a soft image in general owing to the diffused photography, the problem is the terribad compression.

[ROSS.T.G.]

Ghostbusters is still one of my favourites

[Agent Kay]

Originally Posted by sapiendut

If anything, THX retains a movie’s integrity. No messing up with NR, aspect ratip and/or sound mix.

Lol

That is just rubbish

[sapiendut]

Rubbish how? Do you know a single movie where THX certification process changed the theatrical presentation by applying DNR? Changing sound mix? Changing movie’s AR? You really don’t know what you’re talking about.

[wesslan]

"If anything, THX retains a movie’s integrity"

Thinking about this makes me cringe. Maybe THX was something good sometimes before time but now...

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[avs commenter]

Funny to see people still get worked up over a DVD!! release from 20 years ago

[sapiendut]

Besides, that’s from the time when DVD did not have anamorphic encoded. It was the best quality the movie ever was AT THE TIME.

[avs commenter]

exactly. We're finally at the point where we are getting practically the exact version of a film at home that we saw in the theater. DVD was not even close.

[Lee A Stewart]

Originally Posted by avs commenter

exactly. We're finally at the point where we are getting practically the exact version of a film at home that we saw in the theater. DVD was not even close.

I beg to differ. At the time of the popularity of DVD, Hollywood was using high speed generated 35mm prints whose on-screen resolution was about the same as an anamorphic DVD.

[Agent Kay]

Originally Posted by sapiendut

Rubbish how? Do you know a single movie where THX certification process changed the theatrical presentation by applying DNR? Changing sound mix? Changing movie’s AR? You really don’t know what you’re talking about.

Yes, a ton on LD had DVNR, sound mix? Yep tons went under their program and had remixes and nearly all of them had near field mixes on all formats.
You cannot see pass your fanboying to know anything bar a press release.

Originally Posted by sapiendut

Besides, that’s from the time when DVD did not have anamorphic encoded. It was the best quality the movie ever was AT THE TIME.

Dvd supported anamorphic from day one...


More knowing what you are talking about then?

[sapiendut]

Did I mention that the DVD format didn’t support anamorphic? I’m saying that in the beginning DVD was not encoded with anamorphic especially because so many players at the time can’t scale anamorphic DVD to regular letterbox (for 4:3 CRT presentation) without added artifacts.

[Agent Kay]

Originally Posted by sapiendut

Did I mention that the DVD format didn’t support anamorphic? I’m saying that in the beginning DVD was not encoded with anamorphic especially because so many players at the time can’t scale anamorphic DVD to regular letterbox (for 4:3 CRT presentation) without added artifacts.

Maybe THX should have sorted that for their 75k?

[Adrian Wright]

I cannot believe that something so irrelevant is still being discussed after 27 pages

[avs commenter]

Did THX dvd's cost more than other new release DVD's? I honestly don't remember.

[Lee A Stewart]

Originally Posted by sapiendut

Did I mention that the DVD format didn’t support anamorphic? I’m saying that in the beginning DVD was not encoded with anamorphic especially because so many players at the time can’t scale anamorphic DVD to regular letterbox (for 4:3 CRT presentation) without added artifacts.

Here are the first 15 movies released on DVD in the USA:

A Time to Kill
Blade Runner
Eraser
Goodfellas
Interview with the Vampire
The Road Warrior
Se7en
The Birdcage
The Bridges of Madison County
The Fugitive
The Mask
The Wizard of Oz
Twister
Unforgiven
Woodstock

Would you like to take a guess how many of them were "enhanced for widescreen TVs"/anamorphic?