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Topic: film vs blu-ray Dances with Wolves
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Graham Ritchie
Film God
Posts: 4001
From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted February 09, 2015 03:51 PM
A while ago I bought the Blu-ray not the "directors cut" thank goodness, 181 min is long enough for me. Anyway its a movie I have been looking forward to watching in the Blu-ray format projected on the Panasonic video projector.
Well, as I was watching I thought mmmm... picture and sound 5:1 all ok but nothing great, then came the sub-titles....where are they?...noooooo they are of the bottom of the screen, in the black masking...drat.. one line in the frame, the rest in the black. I adjusted the video projector, but it really looked terrible.....switch off.
Anyway I had the thought, lets watch the old 35mm print instead, as I had made it up a year or so ago, and with a bit of help slid this very heavy film onto the platter. At around 3 hours and something it was going to be a long non-stop run for the Ernemann 2 projector, now hitting the 90 year old mark...as it went into service in 1926.
The results of projecting "Dances with Wolves" on film looked and sounded great, even though the print was in Dolby Stereo, everything ran perfect....so if you are thinking of getting the Blu-ray, remember the sub titles are more suited to the TV black bars and not video projection.
....now I can read them......
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Larry Arpin
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 953
From: Sunland, CA, USA
Registered: Dec 2006
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posted February 13, 2015 11:43 PM
I remember seeing a film on Billy Joel singing Piano Man. It was great.
I am actually disappointed in blu-ray in general. I originally got a blu-ray to test a trailer of my film for a film festival a few years ago but only had a regular TV. My son actually has that blu-ray. I wanted to get a step up for 3D since there where some old 3D films I wanted to see, such as Creature From the Black Lagoon, Man in the Dark, etc. So I got a 3D blu-ray and a 3D projector. 3D looks great. I picked up some cheap BRs The Birds & Terminator. So I popped in the disc for The Birds. It was clean, sharp, convenient, and very, very grainy. When Tippi Hedren looks up in the sky at the beginning she sees birds and lots of grain. It's as if there were a swarm of bees in the sky along with the birds. Which really bothers me. In Terminator all the process plates when Reese flashbacks had lots of black dirt which I had never noticed before. So I popped in my super 8mm film and it wasn't noticeable at all. And I thought the image was more pleasant than the blu-ray. Maybe the blu-ray is too sharp or picks up things, such as the grain of the film, too well. I still enjoy the 3D films but I certainly wouldn't invest much in the way of blu-rays if it is like this. Besides I enjoy my super 8mm & 16mm films a lot. Wish I could get some 35mm films but don't have the room.
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