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post #91 of 419
3/6/12 at 2:04pm
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Originally Posted by ThePrisoner View Post

The Digital Bits confirmed that Brad Bird says the IMAX footage will shift to IMAX ratio during the scenes. Feel way better about my pre-order now.

thank the Blu-ray gods!...maybe Bird had a change of heart after receiving a lot of flak about the issue...although would they have enough time to add this in 1 month before release?
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post #92 of 419
3/6/12 at 2:10pm
Good. Damn right!

Hmm... now what do we talk about?
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post #93 of 419
3/6/12 at 2:32pm
The shifting at helps lower your Theta count during the viewing the movie.

I saw it in 2.35 and noticed a distinct lack of "clarity".
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post #94 of 419
3/6/12 at 3:11pm
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Originally Posted by Scott Simonian View Post

Good. Damn right!

Hmm... now what do we talk about?

Why Ving Rhames wasn't on the team?

Was Mikael Blomkvist pretending to be Kurt Hendricks or was it the other way around?

When it comes to stewed prunes, are three enough or is four too many?
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post #95 of 419
3/6/12 at 3:20pm
Hmmm. The Bits didn't get their info from the horse's mouth, least it doesn't look that way ("thanks to reader Juan P"). I've sent an email to them to see what's what.

A 'sudden shift' (heh) to releasing an SAR version would be impossible to create from scratch with just a month's lead time, so it was either: that way all along and Bird simply didn't understand what the tweeters were on about (seems unlikely, given his alleged replies); or some folks have been having an epic troll at the expense of us poor nerds.
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post #96 of 419
3/6/12 at 3:22pm
I hope it's not the latter.
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post #97 of 419
3/6/12 at 3:30pm
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Originally Posted by Geoff D View Post

Hmmm. The Bits didn't get their info from the horse's mouth, least it doesn't look that way ("thanks to reader Juan P"). I've sent an email to them to see what's what.

A 'sudden shift' (heh) to releasing an SAR version would be impossible to create from scratch with just a month's lead time, so it was either: that way all along and Bird simply didn't understand what the tweeters were on about (seems unlikely, given his alleged replies); or some folks have been having an epic troll at the expense of us poor nerds.

People trust the bits now?
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post #98 of 419
3/6/12 at 3:33pm
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Originally Posted by dvdmike007 View Post

People trust the bits now?



"Trust the 'bits' now?"

Since when were they not trustworthy? Did I miss something?
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post #99 of 419
3/6/12 at 3:37pm
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People trust the bits now?

Why d'ya quote me? I'm the one who's sent them an email instead of simply saying "Ghost Protocol has got the IMAX scenes after all. Phew!".
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post #100 of 419
3/6/12 at 4:19pm
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Originally Posted by Scott Simonian View Post




"Trust the 'bits' now?"

Since when were they not trustworthy? Did I miss something?

All four alien movies have been restored and have new state of the art transfers

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Originally Posted by Geoff D View Post

Why d'ya quote me? I'm the one who's sent them an email instead of simply saying "Ghost Protocol has got the IMAX scenes after all. Phew!".

Because you rightly doubted them
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post #101 of 419
3/6/12 at 6:13pm
Bill Hunt is very respected so I definitely would trust his sources...but I would trust him more on this if his source was named Brad B. and not Juan P.

I'm leaning towards Paramount always had shifting aspect ratios and Brad was just misinformed...after all they have a Special Feature dedicated to shooting in IMAX and the Burj Khalifa scenes look stunning
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post #102 of 419
3/7/12 at 2:00am
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Originally Posted by TitusTroy View Post

Bill Hunt is very respected so I definitely would trust his sources...but I would trust him more on this if his source was named Brad B. and not Juan P.

I'm leaning towards Paramount always had shifting aspect ratios and Brad was just misinformed...after all they have a Special Feature dedicated to shooting in IMAX and the Burj Khalifa scenes look stunning

Not anymore, he had cried wolf and bought into PR way too often
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post #103 of 419
3/7/12 at 4:06am
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Originally Posted by TitusTroy View Post

Bill Hunt is very respected so I definitely would trust his sources...but I would trust him more on this if his source was named Brad B. and not Juan P.

I'm leaning towards Paramount always had shifting aspect ratios and Brad was just misinformed...after all they have a Special Feature dedicated to shooting in IMAX and the Burj Khalifa scenes look stunning

Brad Bird's latest tweet regardind this issue is as follows: "My point: if I "intented" to have everyone view MIGP that way I would've relased it in 1.85 and letterboxed the scope scenes"

...Now...after looking at amazon's preorder page, they say it's 1.85. I know amazon's specs are not exactly trustworthy but OAR (except for the IMAX scenes of course) for MIGP is 2.35:1 right?
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post #104 of 419
3/7/12 at 8:00am
It was 2.35.
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post #105 of 419
3/7/12 at 10:27am
Please let's not make this thread about Bill Hunt...accept the info or don't
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post #106 of 419
3/7/12 at 8:38pm
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Originally Posted by Morpheo View Post

Brad Bird's latest tweet regardind this issue is as follows: "My point: if I "intented" to have everyone view MIGP that way I would've relased it in 1.85 and letterboxed the scope scenes"

...Now...after looking at amazon's preorder page, they say it's 1.85. I know amazon's specs are not exactly trustworthy but OAR (except for the IMAX scenes of course) for MIGP is 2.35:1 right?

Relax, there's no way in hell the whole shebang is going to be 1.85:1. Just Amazon upholding their proud tradition of absurdist specs.
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post #107 of 419
3/7/12 at 9:49pm
I'm in the constant height group and am glad it's been cleared up now. 2.35:1 all the way through. Excellent!

http://thedigitalbits.com/#mytwocents
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post #108 of 419
3/7/12 at 9:52pm
Hopefully there's 2 releases like tf 2 and its imax version
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post #109 of 419
3/7/12 at 9:52pm
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post #110 of 419
3/7/12 at 9:52pm
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Originally Posted by MattGuyOR View Post

I'm in the constant height group and am glad it's been cleared up now. 2.35:1 all the way through. Excellent!

http://thedigitalbits.com/#mytwocents

Excellent news indeed
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post #111 of 419
3/8/12 at 3:16am
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Originally Posted by MattGuyOR View Post

I'm in the constant height group and am glad it's been cleared up now. 2.35:1 all the way through. Excellent!

http://thedigitalbits.com/#mytwocents

oh well at least it's officially 'official' now...I don't like it but nothing I can do...now I'll just wait until Ghost Protocol drops under $15 before buying
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post #112 of 419
3/8/12 at 8:36am
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Originally Posted by MattGuyOR View Post

I'm in the constant height group and am glad it's been cleared up now. 2.35:1 all the way through. Excellent!

http://thedigitalbits.com/#mytwocents


Bummer. The scene in Dubai where they knock out the window and he walks over and looks down was one of the best in the movie... and in 2:35 it's gonna look kinda lame.

CIH be dammed in this case, we're supposed to be about the art form, not cheering our setups.

I also think Brad might not be aware of the cultish subset of AV nerds out there that want to lynch him now. ;-)
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post #113 of 419
3/8/12 at 10:06am
Yay !! its very annoying on dark knight.

as seinfeld said in the SNL jeopardy skit about oprah:
"shes fat shes thin shes fat shes thin....pick an aspect ratio & go with it."
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post #114 of 419
3/10/12 at 4:48am
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Originally Posted by TitusTroy View Post

oh well at least it's officially 'official' now...I don't like it but nothing I can do...now I'll just wait until Ghost Protocol drops under $15 before buying


That's funny, I thought it was pretty much official when I asked my contact at Paramount and put the info here on this thread quite awhile back.

Still a bummer. I would have preferred to have the option for a shifting aspect ratio. Maybe the "Big Screen" edition of TF2 didn't sell the numbers they were hoping for, but I was scratching my head as to why they chose Wal-Mart for their release market on that one.
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post #115 of 419
3/10/12 at 4:55am
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Glad they went with one ratio, they can stick their DMR
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post #116 of 419
3/10/12 at 5:04am
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Originally Posted by Kris Deering View Post

That's funny, I thought it was pretty much official when I asked my contact at Paramount and put the info here on this thread quite awhile back.

Still a bummer. I would have preferred to have the option for a shifting aspect ratio. Maybe the "Big Screen" edition of TF2 didn't sell the numbers they were hoping for, but I was scratching my head as to why they chose Wal-Mart for their release market on that one.

yes we should have listened to you in the first place...Bill Hunt's confusing statement muddied the waters...I guess I was just looking for some hope that they would release a true IMAX version
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post #117 of 419
3/10/12 at 4:00pm
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Originally Posted by TitusTroy View Post

yes we should have listened to you in the first place...Bill Hunt's confusing statement muddied the waters...I guess I was just looking for some hope that they would release a true IMAX version

True IMAX would have been 4:3
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post #118 of 419
3/10/12 at 4:18pm
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Originally Posted by dvdmike007 View Post

True IMAX would have been 4:3

The Dark Night Prologue.
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post #119 of 419
3/10/12 at 5:17pm
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Originally Posted by saprano View Post

The Dark Night Prologue.

What about it?
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post #120 of 419
3/12/12 at 1:35am
Aww was hoping for a shifting ar release
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