not all movies are mastered equally.
yes, its a bit of sarcasm,
but after reading of some peoples unsatisfying experiences with their 150's, i watched some clips tonight with an even more critical eye, looking for banding, scaling artifacts etc.
now even stepping up from s-video to the prog scan player i began to notice some less than stellar results.
a few days earlier the last thing i watched before taking off for a few days was the 1st appearence of bruce when brody is chumming.
the sequence looked incredible and i left on my trip with my head in the clouds.
i get back, read some negative posts, and all of a sudden i'm seeing problems creep into the picture.
after cycling thru some new MGM titles, and some other recent purchases, i put in First Knight and it hit me like a bolt of lightning.
some discs just don't look all that great blown up this big.
i realized this because FK looked incredible!
wow, what a concept.
not even titles that were released today have really fine transfers or are mastered to the state of the art.
i then cycled thru some of the more highly regarded (as in transfers) titles and had the same feeling i did when i watched the scene from Jaws...simply stunning, spectacular images were being splashed across my 8 foot wide screen.
unfortunately some of my favorite titles are early 97-98 issues , as well as some recent MGM titles (curse them!) and they don't always look so hot, but i hardly think i can blame the projector...or even the dvd player.
i noticed another slighter drop off in quality when i stepped up from a 32" to a 53" digital, so i'm not toally surprised, and i know this will come as no big news to everyone here,
but i just thought it bears repeating that there are several links in the chain to getting a good image on your screen.
unfortunately i now realize one of the weakest links is my movie collection ?!
BTW: i've burned about 36 hours on the projector so far and all but about 1 of them have been without having any sound hooked up.
i think the fact that i've sat there, utterley entranced, for 35 hours just looking at the picture(s) speaks volumes about the quality of this pj.
at least for this newbie.
[This message has been edited by ckolchak (edited 08-29-2001).]
yes, its a bit of sarcasm,
but after reading of some peoples unsatisfying experiences with their 150's, i watched some clips tonight with an even more critical eye, looking for banding, scaling artifacts etc.
now even stepping up from s-video to the prog scan player i began to notice some less than stellar results.
a few days earlier the last thing i watched before taking off for a few days was the 1st appearence of bruce when brody is chumming.
the sequence looked incredible and i left on my trip with my head in the clouds.
i get back, read some negative posts, and all of a sudden i'm seeing problems creep into the picture.
after cycling thru some new MGM titles, and some other recent purchases, i put in First Knight and it hit me like a bolt of lightning.
some discs just don't look all that great blown up this big.
i realized this because FK looked incredible!
wow, what a concept.
not even titles that were released today have really fine transfers or are mastered to the state of the art.
i then cycled thru some of the more highly regarded (as in transfers) titles and had the same feeling i did when i watched the scene from Jaws...simply stunning, spectacular images were being splashed across my 8 foot wide screen.
unfortunately some of my favorite titles are early 97-98 issues , as well as some recent MGM titles (curse them!) and they don't always look so hot, but i hardly think i can blame the projector...or even the dvd player.
i noticed another slighter drop off in quality when i stepped up from a 32" to a 53" digital, so i'm not toally surprised, and i know this will come as no big news to everyone here,
but i just thought it bears repeating that there are several links in the chain to getting a good image on your screen.
unfortunately i now realize one of the weakest links is my movie collection ?!
BTW: i've burned about 36 hours on the projector so far and all but about 1 of them have been without having any sound hooked up.
i think the fact that i've sat there, utterley entranced, for 35 hours just looking at the picture(s) speaks volumes about the quality of this pj.
at least for this newbie.
[This message has been edited by ckolchak (edited 08-29-2001).]