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post #301 of 600
7/15/07 at 9:52am
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Originally Posted by ryoohki View Post

There's no EE from the 4 shots that Xylon have taking... they may be Haloing, but that's different beast all along..

Huh? Looking at the reconstruction above you can see that they further enhanced the hell out at least some of the scenes, leading to horribly pronouced grain and mighty halos. The halos ARE a direct result of the sharpening here.

Some other shots look like they do indeed show a bit more real detail. Why didn't they just leave the soft shots alone.

So they trade everyones soft, reasonably non-edgy, compression artefact ladden copy of TFE with an artifically grainy, real edgy version which is at least good from the compression side. Hooray!

The problem is the transfer. My hope would have been a new state-of-the-art transfer. Oh well.

They leave that for the tripple dip....

Was going to buy this remaster, will now wait for a real reMASTER!
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post #302 of 600
7/15/07 at 11:52am
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Originally Posted by Bjoern Roy View Post

Huh? Looking at the reconstruction above you can see that they further enhanced the hell out at least some of the scenes, leading to horribly pronouced grain and mighty halos. The halos ARE a direct result of the sharpening here.

Some other shots look like they do indeed show a bit more real detail. Why didn't they just leave the soft shots alone.

So they trade everyones soft, reasonably non-edgy, compression artefact ladden copy of TFE with an artifically grainy, real edgy version which is at least good from the compression side. Hooray!

The problem is the transfer. My hope would have been a new state-of-the-art transfer. Oh well.

They leave that for the tripple dip....

Was going to buy this remaster, will now wait for a real reMASTER!

You're going to be in for a very very long wait then...
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post #303 of 600
7/15/07 at 12:04pm
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Originally Posted by mhafner View Post

So much for the "Superbit DVD was as good or better than the first BR" rubbish.


exactly! The old comparison shots were pretty clear to me as well.
I think alot of the red devils (hey, if they're gonna call us smurfs...) were making the original BD sound worse than it really was saying it looked no better than the Superbit. That or they like to smoke crack....

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post #304 of 600
7/15/07 at 12:11pm
Hi Bjoern! Great to see you again, been awhile.
What are you up to? Any new comps. on your site...?

d

Inetersting, some people have complained that the new one is rather "grainy"...
Maybe it's the best they could make it look barring a full blown restoration...?
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post #305 of 600
7/15/07 at 12:41pm
Wow, Bjoern came out of nowhere.

That restruction shot from the new remaster does look a little edge enhanced. Possibly to compensate for the softness since it's a visual effects shot. The non VFX shots we've seen so far look pretty good though.
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post #306 of 600
7/15/07 at 9:36pm
Am I the only person here who can barely notice any differences in these comparisons? IRL, however, the difference between a DVD and an HD source is night-and-day to me...
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post #307 of 600
7/15/07 at 10:39pm
Bad news, appearantly Best Buy will NOT be carrying this edition in stores.
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post #308 of 600
7/16/07 at 12:37am
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Originally Posted by Dr Kain View Post

Bad news, appearantly Best Buy will NOT be carrying this edition in stores.

Proof?
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post #309 of 600
7/16/07 at 12:57am
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Originally Posted by Bjoern Roy View Post

The problem is the transfer. My hope would have been a new state-of-the-art transfer. Oh well.

This is a new transfer from the IP. Or do you say it's new but not state of the art?
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post #310 of 600
7/16/07 at 1:28am
I guess people are still not happy with the remastered version!!
am I right?
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post #311 of 600
7/16/07 at 1:38am
It's a very noticeable improvement over the previous Mpeg2 Blu-Ray and Superbit SD-DVD. It is not a brand new film either so you can't expect it to look like POTC or Apocalypto.. From the looks of it, it should be upper tier 1...
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post #312 of 600
7/16/07 at 7:22am
I see LOTS of difference from the original.

Remember this was an early film to use lots of CGI. It's possible that some scenes were softened intentionally on film in order to help "blend" live-shot footage with CGI and help to obscure some of the computer-signature.

In any case, as long as the new transfer looks like the interpositive it's taken from, then it's doing its job.
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post #313 of 600
7/16/07 at 7:33am
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Originally Posted by swifty7 View Post

I guess people are still not happy with the remastered version!!
am I right?

From the photos, it's not all that impressive. But I'll wait for some reviews before passing judgment. Of course, if I happen to see a copy in stores tomorrow, I'll likely snatch it right up
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post #314 of 600
7/16/07 at 7:41am
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Originally Posted by Xylon View Post

Proof?

The title is listed on bestbuy.com, but store pickup option says "not available". If you check other titles coming out this week, such as Premonition, the store pickup says option "coming soon".
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post #315 of 600
7/16/07 at 8:04am
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Originally Posted by Mr. Cinema View Post

The title is listed on bestbuy.com, but store pickup option says "not available". If you check other titles coming out this week, such as Premonition, the store pickup says option "coming soon".

All that's proof of is that Best Buy doesn't keep their web site very well updated.
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post #316 of 600
7/16/07 at 8:59am
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Originally Posted by Josh Z View Post

All that's proof of is that Best Buy doesn't keep their web site very well updated.


Interesting I was unaware that the remastered Fifth Element was not due to be available for sale until this week.

I was at my local Best Buy Saturday and the disc was on the shelf for sale already
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post #317 of 600
7/16/07 at 9:19am
placed my order with amazon along with the nyko remote for ps3. judging from current comments i should be happy with both items.
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post #318 of 600
7/16/07 at 9:33am
Mine shows shipping soon from amazon, so I should have it by tomorrow.
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post #319 of 600
7/16/07 at 10:13am
Has anyone received their replacement disc early from Sony?

Couldn't find anyone saying so in the thread..
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post #320 of 600
7/16/07 at 10:15am
Same here.... Can't wait to get it! Amazon baby!
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post #321 of 600
7/16/07 at 10:29am
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Originally Posted by sanderv View Post

Interesting I was unaware that the remastered Fifth Element was not due to be available for sale until this week.

I was at my local Best Buy Saturday and the disc was on the shelf for sale already

Remaster????

My BB also had a copy, but per the discussion here on how to differentiate, it was NOT the remaster.

BGL
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post #322 of 600
7/16/07 at 10:54am
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Originally Posted by swifty7 View Post

I guess people are still not happy with the remastered version!!
am I right?

I am
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post #323 of 600
7/16/07 at 11:41am
Amazon shipped mine today
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post #324 of 600
7/16/07 at 11:43am
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Originally Posted by BBS G35 View Post

Has anyone received their replacement disc early from Sony?

Couldn't find anyone saying so in the thread..

I was wondering the same thing. Maybe I'll be lucky and it will be in my mailbox when I get home
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post #325 of 600
7/16/07 at 12:06pm
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Originally Posted by Mr. Cinema View Post

The title is listed on bestbuy.com, but store pickup option says "not available". If you check other titles coming out this week, such as Premonition, the store pickup says option "coming soon".

I checked Best Buy's inventory system yesterday and there was no listing for the remastered version and no additional orders for the original, since I believe they both use the same SKU. So it looks like Best Buy won't have any for a while.
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post #326 of 600
7/16/07 at 1:16pm
Just got mine today from dvdpacific. Looks great. I was not expecting much but there is a clear improvement.
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post #327 of 600
7/16/07 at 1:20pm
Great to hear!
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post #328 of 600
7/16/07 at 1:56pm
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Originally Posted by dpags View Post

I was wondering the same thing. Maybe I'll be lucky and it will be in my mailbox when I get home

im hoping for the same
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post #329 of 600
7/16/07 at 2:55pm
Picked up a copy at Target yesterday (last/only one on the shelf) and watched it when I got home. I never saw the old version but it did look great, especially face closeups.
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post #330 of 600
7/16/07 at 3:11pm
Just got notification from Amazon that my copy shipped today for delivery on Wed. I have Prime.
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