Batman (1989) (25th Anniversary Edition)

[sarah_wentworth]

Originally Posted by Neomic

AVC-MPEG4 is generally the only one used now days since it's far superior, but in the early days of Blu-ray, a lot of releases were just ports of their HD-DVD counterparts, which supported VC-1 and MPEG2, so a lot of movies from those days still use those same encodes ported from release to release.

Most movie studios don't bother re-encoding the master for AVC since most of those encodes fall under their (and sometimes our) "good enough" category.

As cool as it would be to get a new master for this film, I don't see it looking much better since it was made to look pretty drab in the first place. A new master might be a tad sharper, but unless you're watching on a large screen or have your television professionally calibrated, the difference probably wouldn't even be noticeable.

Then again, I could be wrong and a new transfer could be a night-and-day difference.

Hey thanks! just for theck of it i'm going to pay attention to different encodes

[Neomic]

Originally Posted by sarah_wentworth

Hey thanks! just for theck of it i'm going to pay attention to different encodes

VC-1 is actually a decent codec and can have great results, but the one most people flip out about (and rightfully so) is MPEG2 since it's a very old codec (1996) and usually is accompanied by a ton of video anomalies that can easily be avoided by using one of the better codecs.

Sadly, some studios still do cheap out. The American Pie trilogy used old MPEG2 masters done for the DVDs, converted to MPEG4. Basically the equivalent of putting a turd in shrink-wrap. lol

[mrchallenge]

I have the book already, but I might have to re dip if the extra is any good.

Anybody know about "Diamond Luxe" packaging? Anything special? Or is it simply just a fancy name for a cardboard digipak?

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by mrchallenge

I have the book already, but I might have to re dip if the extra is any good.

Anybody know about "Diamond Luxe" packaging? Anything special? Or is it simply just a fancy name for a cardboard digipak?

See this post

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...&postcount=174