Tenebrae – Technically Speaking

[broonage]

Originally Posted by vinncent

I guess you don´t have Avatar then?

Nope, I thought the film sucked. Ha, beautiful but the story...

[platostotal]

Never knew 'Prince' was a Transylvanian police chief with a wooden arm, dodgy tache and thick accent, heh heh and got sir.

[Prince_Vajda]

Originally Posted by platostotal

Never knew 'Prince' was a Transylvanian police chief with a wooden arm, dodgy tache and thick accent, heh heh and got sir.

Und now let us all go to my house for a little sponge cake und a little wine...und... Shit!



Greetings!

[James Morton]

I have the longest version of TENEBRE at the moment on the Dutch A-Film label
The Dutch subs come on automatically when film plays but I can turn them
them off with the subs button on my remote
The French TF1 dvd has fixed French subs but can be turned off (I read in an issue of Is It Uncut? mag)
If only the French blu ray......

[Prince_Vajda]

Originally Posted by James Morton

I have the longest version of TENEBRE at the moment on the Dutch A-Film label
The Dutch subs come on automatically when film plays but I can turn them
them off with the subs button on my remote
The French TF1 dvd has fixed French subs but can be turned off (I read in an issue of Is It Uncut? mag)
If only the French blu ray......

I am terribly sorry - but for me that's only cloudy gibberish.

Greetings!

[James Morton]

Remmber it can depend on the dvd player!
I only told you what I read and from personal experience with my Dutch dvd

[Prince_Vajda]

Originally Posted by James Morton

Remmber it can depend on the dvd player!
I only told you what I read and from personal experience with my Dutch dvd

Sorry, I understand now. But I checked the different editions - the NL release is as long as the Arrow release. No cuts have been made in the Arrow Blu / DVD and no extended scenes exist - at least that's what I'd say after checking several sources on the net.
Greetings!

PS: Your info on the subs is helpful, though.

[L'enfant Errant]

Originally Posted by Mojo

Like others, I set my tv to 'Cinema' which reduced the brightness and grain and looked fine...

Not to single anyone out, but has anyone here calibrated their TV before they watch movies - much less before they discuss wither it looks good or bad? I mean, you want to see as close to what the pro's at Arrow and elsewhere saw on their professional monitors... right?

I don't even mean pay some stranger half the price of the set to fuss with the service menus, but even just eyeballing the brightness/contrast with Digital Video Essentials, or even those THX patterns that came on seemingly every old Anchor Bay DVD. It only takes about 5 minutes to fix brightness/contrast/sharpness, and it'll make everything you watch look that much more natural. Might even make the set last longer, depending on what sort of technology you've invested in.


Anyway, the forced subs on the French BD are a pain, but if you're clever and have a BD-ROM drive on your PC, you can still disable them. If there's some way to turn the Arrow transfer into the French one with a keystroke, please let me know.

[Prince_Vajda]

Originally Posted by L'enfant Errant

I don't even mean pay some stranger half the price of the set to fuss with the service menus, but even just eyeballing the brightness/contrast with Digital Video Essentials, or even those THX patterns that came on seemingly every old Anchor Bay DVD. It only takes about 5 minutes to fix brightness/contrast/sharpness, and it'll make everything you watch look that much more natural. Might even make the set last longer, depending on what sort of technology you've invested in.

You're right. Arrow's Blu-ray of A Bay Of Blood looks a little bit cold in terms of colours - at least for my taste. I simply change a few settings of my TV and - voilÃ*, there you are. You'll still find people who are not clever enough to do such things, though - just look at some of the reviews on Amazon.

Greetings!

[Andydn]

I've set my tv up so it's just how I want it and 99% of DVDs and blu rays look superb, so why the **** should I change all the settings just to make arrows piece of shit look better, it should look right in the first place, plus my tv doesn't have a 'reduce arrows exageratted grain' setting.