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After reading through the previous HD vs SD comparison screenshots thread its time to go further with the topic. What is the difference between HD optical formats and HD broadcasts? Blu-ray and HD DVD?
We are already familiar with MPEG-2 broadcasts here in the US. In Europe however namely SKY, BBC and Premiere HD stations they use H.264 codec and has effectively trounced anything we see here. For more info go here.
Since its impossible for me to choose which movie frame to capture that will effectively show the best and the worst shot of a movie I will need feedback from members to help me find them. Macroblocking, grain, posterization, whatever.
The screenshots are best viewed using a high resolution monitor (DVI or HDMI) hooked up to your HD capable viewing set. These pictures are big files so dont "qoute" the pictures just indicate the reply #. All HD files are captured using MPC with external filters, captured as 1920x1080 BMP (except some H.264 files. They are saved as 1920x1088), using Photoshop saved as Bicubic quality PNG-24.
I highly recommend hooking up your monitor using digital connections. They show PQ closer to what you are seeing with your HD DVD/BD player.
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ABC [DK] 1994 Pulp Fiction AVC 1080p24 2.35:1 24.81 2:34:20 36,598,665,216 36,723,700,812 31.62 DTS-MA 5.1 48/24 4382 / AC3 5.1 48 640
B [FR] 1994 Pulp Fiction AVC 1080p24 2.35:1 26.95 2:34:24 38,332,047,360 48,749,470,384 33.10 DTS-MA 5.1 48/16 1985
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Not only does the Danish SF Film release have significantly more blocking despite only being 2.14Mbps less, they did automated digital scratch removal on it leaving all those "painted" artifacts you see. Thankfully for the most part these aren't visible in motion (though some are, like the sections of the blinds disappearing throughout the first minute of the film).
And despite displaying no signs of automated scratch removal, the French TF1 release actually has FEWER print anomalies as you can see in screenshot #1, #3, and #6. I wonder if they went through a manual process to paint them out.
Sadly the superior French Blu-ray is Region B locked with forced French subs and has PAL higher-pitch audio.
Funny, I thought the French release sounded great, but I hadn't watched the US DVD in a long while. I'm not really sure why the audio would be sped up if the framerate is still 24Fps.
I guess the best comparison would be when the Region A release finally hits.
I recall some people were also claiming that the UK release of Woodstock was also sped up, although it was also still at 1080p/24. Having both US and UK releases, I compared the two and could not hear a difference for the life of me.
Just a few grabs from episode 9 since I'm lazy and I'm sure it's much the same throughout.
The lower bitrate and having 2.5 times the number of frames certainly don't do the broadcast any favors, so I tried to be kind and only took I-frames from it.
9.86Mbps MPEG-2 720p59.94 vs 28Mbps AVC 1080p23.976
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Just a few grabs from episode 9 since I'm lazy and I'm sure it's much the same throughout.
The lower bitrate and having 2.5 times the number of frames certainly don't do the broadcast any favors, so I tried to be kind and only took I-frames from it.
Yeah, horrible blocking in MPEG-2... though, the jump from 720p to 1080p doesnt do much as far as fine detail (aside from grain retention). It is nice to see that Fox doesnt even DNR their broadcasts.
Indiana Jones Trilogy, old master via BBC & Sky HDTV vs new remaster via WOWOW HDTV. The DVDs are based off the old master. I wonder how long Paramount plans to sit on the new transfer and not release it on Blu-ray.
Raiders: WOWOW 20mbit MPEG2_BBC 16mbit H264
Temple of Doom: WOWOW 20mbit MPEG2_Sky 13mbit H264
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Indiana Jones Trilogy, old master via BBC & Sky HDTV vs new remaster via WOWOW HDTV. The DVDs are based off the old master. I wonder how long Paramount plans to sit on the new transfer and not release it on Blu-ray.
Interestingly, the new transfer has the original matte painting effect, not the CGI nonsense that was included in some broadcasts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_sFW8grQtU
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Indiana Jones Trilogy, old master via BBC & Sky HDTV vs new remaster via WOWOW HDTV. The DVDs are based off the old master. I wonder how long Paramount plans to sit on the new transfer and not release it on Blu-ray.
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Interestingly, the new transfer has the original matte painting effect, not the CGI nonsense that was included in some broadcasts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_sFW8grQtU
Well, I reviewed both DVDs (the original issue and the SE version) and they both use the matte painting. So it can't be the same master for the BBC-HD version.
BTW: The CG doesn't bother me. The original looks a bit animated.
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Well, I reviewed both DVDs (the original issue and the SE version) and they both use the matte painting. So it can't be the same master for the BBC-HD version.
BTW: The CG doesn't bother me. The original looks a bit animated.
Those Indy screenshots look absolutely remarkable. Beautiful grain-structure and incredible detail. Paramount is really upping their game on Spielberg titles.
I think it's the noise filtering only that screws the colors. For example, this is what happens when your turn on the mplayer temporal denoiser in ffdshow:
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Those Indy screenshots look absolutely remarkable. Beautiful grain-structure and incredible detail. Paramount is really upping their game on Spielberg titles.
I believe, and someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but Spielberg has final say on all remasters and releases of his films, so they Paramount has to make an effort or he wouldn't let them release anything.
The first two images are from PBS satellite feeds (AMC-21). These feeds are ATSC compliant (1920 x 1080 interlaced) and were captured using TSReader . The first image is a frame from the PBS Nature series ( WNET, New York ), the second image is from Soundstage ( WTTW, Chicago ). The third image is from AVS member dr1394 (Ron) site that contains quite a few test pattern files. The file is the “20 to 35 MHZ 100% bursts 1920x1080”, click here for more. The frames were captured using VideoReDo TVSuite. All images are MPEG-2.
There is still PBS that broadcast 1920 x 1080 at full bitrate? Mine has about 1,000,000 multicast channels that rendered it unwatchable. And yeah my PBS is 720p at 5 mbps mpeg-2 last time I checked
Looking back ten years ago when Rudy Maxa was the the only HD program from that channel. My only source of HD back then
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