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post #1 of 562
7/20/09 at 6:07am
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Prior to the recent opening of his well-received motion picture Public Enemies, director Michael Mann went back into the telecine facility to personally supervise a new high-definition transfer of Heat, the crime classic that starred powerhouse duo Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.


Special Features:

· Commentary by Michael Mann

· The Making of Heat

· Pacino and De Niro: The Conversation

· Return to the Scene of the Crime

· Deleted Scenes

· Theatrical Trailers

No word on audio specs but...YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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post #2 of 562
7/20/09 at 6:12am
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Originally Posted by DigitalfreakNYC View Post

No word on audio specs but...YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I really hope they do this release some justice. This used to be my demo disc on DVD - the bank scene is incredible. Here's hoping to this being my new blu-ray demo disc in the future!
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post #3 of 562
7/20/09 at 9:08am
One word: FINALLY!

Thanks for the update. Been waiting for this one.

CFC
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post #4 of 562
7/20/09 at 9:17am
Suddenly all seems right in the world.
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post #5 of 562
7/20/09 at 9:28am
Two words: F**k yes!

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post #6 of 562
7/20/09 at 10:27am
Can retire my full bitrate DVD DTS finally
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post #7 of 562
7/20/09 at 10:35am
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Originally Posted by DigitalfreakNYC View Post

Prior to the recent opening of his well-received motion picture Public Enemies, director Michael Mann went back into the telecine facility to personally supervise a new high-definition transfer of Heat, the crime classic that starred powerhouse duo Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.

Hell yes!

Looks like there should be very little to complain about since Mann is hip to HD. I hope he made them do a 24bit audio encode(if it had a 24bit track).

As a side note - Public Enemies should be a new demo disc, picture is perfect throughout and the sound is pretty close to perfect.
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post #8 of 562
7/20/09 at 10:53am
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Originally Posted by dvdmike007 View Post

Can retire my full bitrate DVD DTS finally

Can retire my laserdisc finally! If Warner gives us lower audio quality than on the laserdisc, I am going to be really really really ticked off.

I am convined that Warner intentionally screws up highly desirable titles so they can double or triple dip, but on undesirable ones they do a perfect job. Amadeus is one such example - excellent PQ/AQ, but they didn't give us the Oscar winning cut.
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post #9 of 562
7/20/09 at 10:55am
About god damn time.
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post #10 of 562
7/20/09 at 11:01am
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Originally Posted by shadowrage View Post


Looks like there should be very little to complain about since Mann is hip to HD.

Oh, I absolutely guarantee you there will be some people around here complaining how it looks different than the DVD and how Mann is wrong.
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post #11 of 562
7/20/09 at 11:23am
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Originally Posted by shadowrage View Post

As a side note - Public Enemies should be a new demo disc, picture is perfect throughout and the sound is pretty close to perfect.

I strongly disagree with this statement. The interpolation that was done on Publlic Enemies is gross.
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post #12 of 562
7/20/09 at 12:09pm
I'm there.
LOSSLESS please...the best crime drama shoot-out...EVER.
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post #13 of 562
7/20/09 at 12:38pm
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Originally Posted by DJ Lushious View Post

I strongly disagree with this statement. The interpolation that was done on Publlic Enemies is gross.

Its not interpolation, but open shutter.

With a filmcamera the shutters must be closed so a new frame can be pulled behind the lens.

With digital cameras you shoot with 1/48 shutter to simulate the shutterspeed of filmcamera.

But you can also shoot with open shutters, that gives a more fluid movement. Micheal Mann has previosly done this in Collateral and Miami Vice.

But I dont like this look either.
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post #14 of 562
7/20/09 at 1:51pm
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Originally Posted by MovieSwede View Post

Its not interpolation, but open shutter.

With a filmcamera the shutters must be closed so a new frame can be pulled behind the lens.

With digital cameras you shoot with 1/48 shutter to simulate the shutterspeed of filmcamera.

But you can also shoot with open shutters, that gives a more fluid movement. Micheal Mann has previosly done this in Collateral and Miami Vice.

But I dont like this look either.

Ah, thanks for the lesson! The only way I knew how to describe it was interpolation (since it mimics what those LCDs are doing now).

I haven't seen Miami Vice, but I don't remember the effect being as pronounced in Collateral as it was in Public Enemies.

Nonetheless, I will definitely be double-dipping for Heat on Blu-Ray. It's such a fantastic movie, I'd hate to think of watching it on DVD ever again.
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post #15 of 562
7/20/09 at 2:50pm
Director's supervise the transfer, but they DO NOT take part in encoding of the BD. That is when DVNR is usually added and the transfer is compressed for Blu-Ray. THAT is the problem.
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post #16 of 562
7/20/09 at 3:05pm
I never worry about DNR with Warner, just a filtered starved crappy VC-1 transfer
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post #17 of 562
7/20/09 at 3:14pm
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Originally Posted by dvdmike007 View Post

I never worry about DNR with Warner, just a filtered starved crappy VC-1 transfer

1. What filter?

2. VC1 transfer?

3. Starved?
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post #18 of 562
7/20/09 at 4:05pm
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I really hope they do this release some justice. This used to be my demo disc on DVD - the bank scene is incredible. Here's hoping to this being my new blu-ray demo disc in the future!

+1, although the bank scene was my demo on VHS I never found the fullbit DTS version up here so I never bought it on DVD.
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post #19 of 562
7/20/09 at 4:18pm
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Originally Posted by DigitalfreakNYC View Post

director Michael Mann went back into the telecine facility to personally supervise a new high-definition transfer of Heat

That is great, now I just hope Warner doesn't screw it up during the authoring process, like almost every other BD they have released

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Originally Posted by Matt_Stevens View Post

Director's supervise the transfer, but they DO NOT take part in encoding of the BD. That is when DVNR is usually added and the transfer is compressed for Blu-Ray. THAT is the problem.

Yes, that is one of the problems, the other is:

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Originally Posted by dvdmike007 View Post

just a filtered starved crappy VC-1 transfer

Though transfer should be replaced by encode

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Originally Posted by MovieSwede View Post

1. What filter?

I can't tell what's the name of the filter, but it is there on almost every other titles Warner puts out.
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post #20 of 562
7/20/09 at 4:30pm
To be fair almost all Warner catalogs that don't use old crappy dvd masters don't have any of the encoding issues the new titles do. So this one should be safe.
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post #21 of 562
7/21/09 at 12:02am
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Originally Posted by AlexBC View Post

I can't tell what's the name of the filter, but it is there on almost every other titles Warner puts out.

Whats the purpose of this filter? Were is the source to this claim? Name 10 titles that has used this filter.
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post #22 of 562
7/21/09 at 1:28am
Excellent this will be a definite buy for me.
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post #23 of 562
7/21/09 at 9:05am
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Originally Posted by cfc View Post

one word: Finally!

Thanks for the update. Been waiting for this one.

Cfc

+1
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post #24 of 562
7/21/09 at 9:13am
Good stuff. Been waiting ages for this. I was incredulous when the wife recently told me she hadn't seen it before, so that's my in to get it on release day
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post #25 of 562
7/21/09 at 9:21am
If this were six months ago I'd worry Warner would slap a Dolby 5.1 track on this, but I guess now all the catalogue titles are getting TrueHD, too.
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post #26 of 562
7/21/09 at 2:11pm
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Originally Posted by Slaine View Post

I was incredulous when the wife recently told me she hadn't seen it before,

It really is a guy film, that's probably why.


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post #27 of 562
7/21/09 at 2:24pm
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Originally Posted by JaylisJayP View Post

If this were six months ago I'd worry Warner would slap a Dolby 5.1 track on this, but I guess now all the catalogue titles are getting TrueHD, too.

With WB, never take anything for granted.
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post #28 of 562
7/21/09 at 2:31pm
Finally! Hopefully the Nov date is for real this time.

Any idea yet what the AR will be?

____
Axel
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post #29 of 562
7/21/09 at 2:39pm
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Any idea yet what the AR will be?


Negative three.

I just blew your mind.
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post #30 of 562
7/21/09 at 7:49pm
Should we also expect a new SD DVD with the new transfer?
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