Blood Simple (1984)

[samlop10]

Originally Posted by nicwood

Thank you for this insightful review and the caps, samlop. The compression issues and the seemingly improperly managed DV layer are certainly disappointing. I hoped and thought that Criterion learned something from Walkabout but this is not much different with severe highlight clipping and general compression issues with larger areas.

How is the difference between HDR10 and DV when it comes to the encode? Does the FEL layer "fix" what looks poorly in HDR10? In that case, I’d definitely prefer watching the film in DV over HDR10 despite the luminance differences.

I’ll try to check soon whenever i have time. Keep in mind Studio Canal did the standard blu for the European standard blu using the same restoration as Criterion for their standard blu, so they might do the same for a 4K release over there in the near future.