Yeti4623

I notice it a little on 70's low budget dvd transfers, but especially 80's low budget transfers: The picture has this kind of bland, peach or gray colored look. Not all low budget movies, but a lot of them.

Does anyone know what I'm talk about? If so, I wonder if you know why they look like that?

Ash Ketchum

Can you please give us examples of specific films and DVD transfers? That way if we actually have those DVDs, we can check them to see if what you're describing is evident to us or not.

Kurt D

Peach and gray were very popular colors in the '80s. Problem solved.

Yeti4623

Airplane, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Chud, Alligator, Commando. To name a few.

wm lopez

I know THIEF has had about 3 different looking transfers.
It's not like the movies of this century where they are mostly teal colored.
Looks like the blue ray od SCARFACE doesn't look ;ole it did in 1983.
Depends on the dope who is doing the color correcting.

Ash Ketchum

I saw one of those in a theater, one on cable, one on broadcast, one on VHS, and the other (CHUD) not at all, and absolutely none on DVD, so I'm afraid I can't help you out on this one. Sorry.

SterlingBen

Quality of the film stock used for digitization purposes.

obscurelabel

A number of things happened to make a lot (not all) of the films from the late 1970s and early 1980s look bad:

Much of the Eastman Kodak film stock from this period was poor, meaning the films never looked that great to start with, and were more susceptible to fading over time.

Movies started opening much wider (many more screens than before) so more wear and tear on the film elements to make more prints.

Cheaper lab processing was available for 35mm film (and became more popular because of having larger print runs), with resulting lowering of quality. Technicolor, for one, discontinued their top-of-the-line imbibition process in the late 1970s, which had always been expensive and had been being used by fewer and fewer films, but now it was gone completely.

Probably other reasons as well but these are a few I thought of. It isn't necessarily the transfers, the films themselves probably looked this way to start with, especially low budget ones.

CertifiedTHX

Much like teal and orange are now. Was somewhat take aback recently as I watched bits of Fast and Furious and the Nightmare on Elm Street remake. Those colors were so ubiquitous, they were actually distracting, especially in Nightmare.

--THX

wm lopez

I never heard of anyone in DVDTALK say they like teal & orange in their movies. Since DVDTALK members are mostly movie geeks one can assume that movie goers don't like it. So why does Hollywood continue for 11 years putting this out?
Only reason I can think of is that they have the guy on the desktop who does the color on the movie print with little time to work on the film.
So in order to finish the print quick he just leaves scenes in the 2 color shade.