1962 Mutiny on the Bounty in November 8 - Review up

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Strevlac

I love this movie. I've had the HD-DVD for about 4 years now and I've watched it probably 4 or 5 times and the transfer quality leaves a lot to be desired. Those bluray caps on DVD Beaver look pretty much just like the HD-DVD. Extremely smooth but not very sharp and lacking in actual detail. Look at Fletcher's jacket buttons fer chripes sake. Blurry. They were NOT like that in 70mm, I can vouch for that.

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Me too, which makes it a bit of a tough pill to swallow , especially, for one thing, having the knowledge that things have markedly improved in terms of monitoring displays and procedures in the mastering suites of many studios and content providers since 05/06, just in going from the source (be it an image sequence on a drive, like DPX, or a 10-bit HD master tape) -> Blu-ray disc. If memory serves, in this case the scanned source was a 35mm IP reduction print.

b.t.w., Robert Siegel just wrote an excellent article entitled “Behind the Mutiny on the Bounty” currently located at the top of the News section of this forum.