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Originally Posted by JAMIOUSE  I think it was Camera Obscura who said the other year when they first started releasing titles on blu that a lot of Italian films look better in SD than they ever will in HD. For a HD master to look amazing there are a lot of things that need to be right, the negative has to be in decent order to begin with, but if the actual film was shot with bad lighting and on grainy stock it's never going to look fantastic. Unless of course people prefer a DNR'd look and boosting. |
Yeah, some of the earlier stuff was never properly archived and you end up with things like Arrows nightmare city where the Negs are pretty damaged. I remember reading about the job Camera obscura had to do on short night of the glass dolls and it sounded really painstaking.