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10/22/08 at 4:38am
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"We try to be as true as we possibly can to what we believe the original director and cinematographer saw in their dailies when they were shooting the movie"

-John Lowry

Everything thats been done is based on approved masters. We are not trying to reinvent the films, but just to have them with more detail, more enhanced color, just a new fresh look at the films"

-James Owsley
Director Of Technical Services, MGM


 


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10/22/08 at 4:39am
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10/22/08 at 4:39am
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Special Edition DVD release date 2002

Ultimate Edition DVD release date 2008

Blu-ray: 27.10 GB

Bitrate: 29.32 mbps

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Title                                                           Codec   Length  Movie Size      Disc Size       Bitrate Bitrate Main Audio Track                          Secondary Audio Track
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Dr. No                                                          AVC     1:49:50 29,177,131,008  42,877,355,998  35.42   29.32   DTS-HD Master 5.1 3050Kbps (48kHz/24-bit) 


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Disc Size:      42,877,355,998 bytes
Protection:     BD+
BD-Java:        Yes

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post #4 of 153
10/22/08 at 4:39am
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For this movie the overall PQ is as good as it gets. Lowry Digital were able to work on the original camera negative (OCN). Of course that doesn't mean much on the how the final product will look like if the restorer has other plans. But on an ideal setting this is the one you want your studios to work on for you high definition disc. Especially on older films. Scanned at 4K it has the potential to even look better on future formats.

I have only watched Dr. No so I can't say if the PQ on other Bond films is on par. What I can tell you is for Dr. No the DNR used by Lowry did not result on any obvious smearing or waxy look of the film. Fine grain and HF details intact. There are artifacting on some scenes (Clue: beach) but its something most people won't notice when watching the movie. Much like what I saw with The Searchers. Although kind of suprising given the higher bitrate on this one.
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10/22/08 at 4:40am
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10/22/08 at 4:40am
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10/22/08 at 5:03am
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post #8 of 153
10/22/08 at 6:42am


What's up with all the macroblocking? You can clearly see compression artifacts all over that screenshot.
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post #9 of 153
10/22/08 at 7:00am
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What's up with all the macroblocking? You can clearly see compression artifacts all over that screenshot.

What ?

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post #10 of 153
10/22/08 at 7:04am
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post #11 of 153
10/22/08 at 7:06am
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Its when Honey first met James at the beach where the artifacting were quite obvious (to me) while watching the movie.

This is pretty much the same situation as Sweeney Todd UK. The grainy nature sometimes "hides" these artifacts. Looking at screenshots they are very discernable.

I will leave it up to the viewers if its noticeable to them.
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post #12 of 153
10/22/08 at 7:32am
On the first pics, it is amazing how much better the UE DVD version is than the SE version. As for the Blu-Ray it seems to be icing on the cake. Much more fine detail (hair on his hands, wrinkles on his forehead, etc). Looking good so far, keep them coming Xylon. Dr. No is my favorite Connery Bond film and it arrives today from Amazon
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post #13 of 153
10/22/08 at 7:52am
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What's up with all the macroblocking?

Uh, what macroblocking?
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post #14 of 153
10/22/08 at 7:53am
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Originally Posted by Xylon View Post

Its when Honey first met James at the beach where the artifacting were quite obvious (to me) while watching the movie.

This is pretty much the same situation as Sweeney Todd UK. The grainy nature sometimes "hides" these artifacts. Looking at screenshots they are very discernable.

I will leave it up to the viewers if its noticeable to them.

I haven't seen the disk, so I'm not going to debate what you are seeing. But, we're calling this 'macroblocking' now???
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post #15 of 153
10/22/08 at 7:54am
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On the first pics, it is amazing how much better the UE DVD version is than the SE version.

well of course... SE has some freakishly thick EE halos (look at the cig) and a bunch of noise

definitely picking up some of these blurays later... but for now i'll drool at screenshots
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post #16 of 153
10/22/08 at 8:06am
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I haven't seen the disk, so I'm not going to debate what you are seeing. But, we're calling this 'macroblocking' now???

It coud be the wrong terminology, but if you look at the screenshot it's comprised of nothing but little squares that are various types of compression artifacts. It looks like when you create an overly compressed jpg. It is a testament to the new codecs that even when the compression artifacts are that bad, the movie still looks that good. Of course having 6 times the pixel density of 480p does help to hide a lot of problems like this.
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post #17 of 153
10/22/08 at 8:40am
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Originally Posted by Xylon View Post

Its when Honey first met James at the beach where the artifacting were quite obvious (to me) while watching the movie.

This is pretty much the same situation as Sweeney Todd UK. The grainy nature sometimes "hides" these artifacts. Looking at screenshots they are very discernable.

I will leave it up to the viewers if its noticeable to them.

So you see macroblocks in that cap of Connery ?

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post #18 of 153
10/22/08 at 10:43am
I think I notice it as well. At first I was mistaking it for film grain......unless im wrong?
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post #19 of 153
10/22/08 at 10:44am
Again, thank you Xylon

I like how these look, especially considering I havnt gotten the Ultimate editions so this is a huge jump for me
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post #20 of 153
10/22/08 at 10:51am
I don't see any macroblocking in that Blu Ray pic.

Sperron, what are you seeing?
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post #21 of 153
10/22/08 at 10:59am
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Originally Posted by Xylon View Post

Its when Honey first met James at the beach where the artifacting were quite obvious (to me) while watching the movie.

This is pretty much the same situation as Sweeney Todd UK. The grainy nature sometimes "hides" these artifacts. Looking at screenshots they are very discernable.

I will leave it up to the viewers if its noticeable to them.

Well, hey! If they film grain is intact enough to "cover up" or "hide" compression artifacts then I think we are in good shape.
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post #22 of 153
10/22/08 at 11:02am
Well, all I could do is zoom in some areas which would do nothing but bring on complaints from the naysayers, but if you want to see some of the bad side effects from the compression artifacts look at the white cuff of his shirt. The compression artifacts have caused chroma errors and you see a red outline at the interface of the white cuff and the suit he is wearing. You can also see this to a lesser extent at the interface of his shirt and the black suit on the left side. There are also dark blue chroma errors in the suit of the gentleman standing behind him. Truthfully the chroma errors would be more annoying then the macroblocking in an instance like this. Basically it's the same type of macroblocking errors that people used to complain about with certain DVD player/HDTV combinations.

Also if you look at his open mouth, there isn't actually much detail there. It's just several big blurry macroblocks.

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10/22/08 at 11:14am
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Well, all I could do is zoom in some areas which would do nothing but bring on complaints from the naysayers, but if you want to see some of the bad side effects from the compression artifacts look at the white cuff of his shirt. The compression artifacts have caused chroma errors and you see a red outline at the interface of the white cuff and the suit he is wearing. You can also see this to a lesser extent at the interface of his shirt and the black suit on the left side. There are also dark blue chroma errors in the suit of the gentleman standing behind him. Truthfully the chroma errors would be more annoying then the macroblocking in an instance like this. Basically it's the same type of macroblocking errors that people used to complain about with certain DVD player/HDTV combinations.

Also if you look at his open mouth, there isn't actually much detail there. It's just several big blurry macrblocks.


I still don't see the macroblocks ,at least in that image.

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post #24 of 153
10/22/08 at 11:26am
I see what sperron is referring to in the pic, but I think 'macroblocking' is not the right word for it.
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post #25 of 153
10/22/08 at 11:53am
Wow, just noticed you put the beach scene up Xylon. I see how you would notice that.
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post #26 of 153
10/22/08 at 12:19pm
While I can say that there are macroblock artifacts present, I have to agree with most others as to how visible they really are. They don't really stand out to me, either. Though I can imagine, they may give up their position when these scenes are viewed in motion, by the way the noise signature changes in response to a grouping of macroblock artifacts (unnaturally smoothed area, that interrupts the film grain).

I would describe these shots as mild dnr, fairly uniform noise throughout the image from black extreme to white, compression noise strength hanging in at right about the film grain strength. I could swear there are signs of deinterlace remnants scattered throughout the image (but not knowing more about Lowry's process for this title, I don't know why it would be there). Some chroma phase error at the white cuff towards the bottom? The instance of macroblock artifacts seems pretty consistent and regular across the image, possibly suggesting a less sophisticated 1-pass encoding style, as opposed to a more "adaptive" 2-pass? (An alternate theory could suggest that the macroblock artifacts are coming from the digital master, itself, but who really knows, if that is the case.)

I don't think there is much to really complain about, out of the stuff I mentioned, but I do wonder why some further encoder tweaking could have pulled back the artifacts just a notch more, so as to enable completely uninterrupted film grain rendition. Lowry is the king of restoration, as well, no? The results are not poor, by any stretch, but I would have expected even higher standards from a Lowry production.

Here's HFV mode:




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post #27 of 153
10/22/08 at 12:39pm
Here's the "Hanky restoration":




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post #28 of 153
10/22/08 at 1:45pm
Wow ! I would not have noticed that without the processed images but now I see them. The thing is the sharp edged 8x8 blocks I normally would have associated with that term are still not visible is the cap of Connery to me.

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post #29 of 153
10/22/08 at 1:54pm
Actually, each of those tiny blocks is 8x8 (I checked). It's just that 1080p has 6 times the pixel density of 480p.
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post #30 of 153
10/22/08 at 2:31pm
Yeah, I also noticed more blocking that usual for a Fox/MGM title when checking out the discs on my monitor. It's not the kind of blocking visible in normal viewing IMO.
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