Master and Commander comparison *PIX* - Page 4

nope. 'twasnt me. 1st line was from another 'observer'.
yer making a lot of friends around here, arentcha?

you make a lot of good points in your posts; maybe do it just a little less abrasively in the future.

Man, that last SD DVD screenshot has tons of haloing and blocking in it, the BD has none of that. Not what I consider a crisp transfer by any means, but at least it doesn't have any video garbage...

I just got M&C from Netflix today and took a brief look at a few scenes. From what I've seen, I'm actually pretty happy with the transfer. There is much more detail in most shots, the blacks are deeper and usually show more detail, and the colors, especially flesh tones, looked much better than the DVD. But, I think that it could look even better if given a new transfer as the quality seemed to change from shot to shot. The faces look softer than I'd expect and the print itself is dirtier than I'd like. Still, it's a nice improvement, but only if it was priced at around $20, not $30.

The sound, even at 1.5 mbps, sounded noticeably better than the DVD's DTS track.

Soft. There's some haloing going on at the top of the hill.

+1 but doesn't look this soft on 37" and 50" screens.

Yeah, that shot actually looked very good on my family's 42" 768p plasma. On here though... it's strange that it looks so soft, in addition to the digital artifacts. This could definitely use a new transfer.

Yeah. FOX gave us the shaft on most of their catalog titles which they have repeatedly bumped from the schedule for some unknown reasons.

Just picked this one up the other day, already own it on SDVD. The audio was just amazing on the SDVD, os I hope it's even better on BD. But I agree the transfer appears only slightly better. Fox does seem to be lacking in effort when it comes to their titles. I just think back the to start of SDVD and how much crap studios pushed out. A lot of crap, basically direct transfer from the VHS versions. If they are going to charge $24-$40 for these disks they need to get their crap together less their greed kill the format. I can understand a bad transfer on a older movie like the Sting do to the state of the master but this is well BS.

True!


Yes. Still, it's a decent improvement over the DVD, especially during the storm sequence and the battle scenes.

Just because there's still some grain in the image doesn't mean it hasn't been DNR'ed. The Master and Commander Blu-ray has rather poor textural detail and looks quite DNR'ed to me. It's better than the DVD, but not by a significant margin.


Agreed.

This has to be one of the most disappointing releases in High def. The colour/black levels are better than SD-DVD but the image on SD-DVD otherwise is pretty comparable (yes I did compare both movies in a projector - BR going 1080p/24 and the SD-DVD upconverted to 1080p).

Now I was not prepared for the audio. It is i.m.h.o much better in the SD-DVD release! The scene I used to test was the scene where the boy gets his arm chopped off (right at the beginning). The SD-DVD was in the DTS track and the BR DTS-HD MA. I heard much more of the constant wood crackling on the SD-DVD than on the BR (maybe a mastering issue). Of course the scenes where battle scenes sounded great in DTS-HD MA but it is not night and day compared to the SD-DVD release.

I'm glad I did not (and will not) buy this BR release.

Hey everyone,

Sorry for bringing up an old thread. I bought M&C on Blu Ray a few days ago and was surprised at how the image seemed to break apart during the foggy, smoky and even under deck scenes.

Above deck the pic was great but otherwise the image seemed to be worse than what people here are describing.

As an example in the first battle scene when Mr. Hollum's gun crew is taken out and Mr. Calamy tells Mr. Blakney to go above deck the image is so incredibly blurry and when there was movement the object that was moving was followed by heavy tracers (like you were on LCD).

I think I am experiencing something far worse that what a lot of critics say is a soft pic. In particular the scene arond the horn, everything is way blurry with lots of tracers

Funny thing is it is not that much different on Standard def. I still get the heavy blurring in those scenes.

The standard def DVD did not have this issue on my old box sony and old DVD player.

I recently got into Home Theater with a 52" sammy, HK receiver and PS3. I got the PS3 this week. Movies like Godfather, V for Vendetta, 2001 and Dark Knight all look great so I do not think it is the player or a firmware issue.

I am not a hard core videophile and I do not think I fall into the category of unrealistic expectations either but even I can tell it should not look like this.

Comments that say, the pic is not that bad tells makes me think I am experiencing a much worse pic than most people.

Any thoughts?

Sound is incredible by the way and as film on its own this is one of my favs.

Thanks

So there's a new Digitbook release out tomorrow. Anyone know if this is improved in any way? New transfer? More supplements?
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B004SEUJAA/

And without the truncated LFE. The DTheater version has reference bass with the cannon battle. It is just not there in the BD

Art

How awesome would that be...!

I believe the entire wave of recent digibooks by Fox are just the older BDs reissued in new packaging. A crass marketing promotion, likely for the upcoming Father's day period.

New transfer and no high pass filter on the LFE channel and I'm there! Most likely not a new disc though.

More chance of hell freezing over.

I don't know if any of you can find this of any interest, but the italian edition of this film used a different miramax master, only edition in europe to not use the fox master. It could be an improvement for enthusiasts of this film. English track is of course included

That's interesting...would love to see a screenshot comparison.

I can't help you as i dont own a copy and dont have anydvd to decrypt the disc for file appraisal. I will keep interested avs users updated on this matter and will link screenshots if any appear

If it's an old Miramax DVD master, I wouldn't hold out much hope. Miramax used to crank up the Edge Enhancement on their transfers at the time this movie was first released.

this is one of the reasons I should have kept my Dtheater copy!!! PQ/LFE/SQ were really good to me....

Caps-a-holic screenshot comparison (US Blu-ray vs DE DVD) >>>

http://www.caps-a-holic.com/hd_vergleiche/comparison.php?&art=magnify&x=190&y=384&action=1&image=0&cID=1247&cap1=13863&cap2=13855&gamma=&lossless=1#vergleich

how in the hell did a great movie like this never get a sequel.



hollywood throws a sequel at pretty much anything, and there's a lot of uncovered material from the book series that's there for the taking.

i should be a hollywood producer.