Worst DVD Transfer
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Re: Worst DVD Transfer
The World Video Ashes of Time probably has this in the bag: a 1.85:1 image cropped both sides to 4:3 and then cropped again on the bottom to, uh, 1.85:1. About half of the original image was thereby eliminated -- worse than even a pan-and-scan job on a 2.39:1 film, and here the picture was cropped on three sides instead of just two (with no attempt to reframe the image accordingly). The picture quality was roughly at VHS level if not worse, since it was clearly sourced from a (terrible) non-anamorphic 1.85:1 master and half the resolution was thrown out via cropping. Awful, artifact-riddled encoding was the icing on the cake. Most of the stuff mentioned in this thread is reference quality by comparison.
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Re: Worst DVD Transfer
DVDBeaver gives it a 4.5 of 5 stars and DigitallyObessed rates it an "A" on video quality, so I'm not sure what he is talking about.
From DigitallyObessed:
"Criterion's transfer is in a word, breathtaking. The colors are almost preternaturally vivid and gorgeous, without being oversaturated...A very beautiful transfer."
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