The House By The Cemetery (Blu-ray)

[Mojo]

My replacement disc arrived today. Super-fast service from Arrow

[digitalnasties]

Originally Posted by robertzombie

Wow, you can really tell the difference in the first cap! It's very slight, but it does make you wonder what exactly Arrow are doing differently to result in a slightly inferior reproduction.

Less dnr and edge enhancement if that's a bad thing.

[fuzzymctiger]

Originally Posted by LoBo

Yes, people have said it appears to use the same master Blue Underground used. You can compare 2 screenshots here if you like:

BU
Blu-ray.com - Screenshot

Arrow
Blu-ray.com - Screenshot

BU
Blu-ray.com - Screenshot

Arrow
Blu-ray.com - Screenshot

My observations are that the Arrow has more grain, and is brighter.
The Arrow frame is also slight wider.

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by robertzombie

Wow, you can really tell the difference in the first cap! It's very slight, but it does make you wonder what exactly Arrow are doing differently to result in a slightly inferior reproduction.

Obviously shows what my eyesight is like....I really don't see a difference at all in the first screenshot. granted, I'm looking at them on my iphone and zooming in on them.

[robertzombie]

The BU cap seems ever so slightly sharper, whereas on the Arrow cap you can see the wall looks a bit smudgier.

[Vampix]

They're both hundreds of times better than a bootleg, that's all I'm concerned with.

[LoBo]

Originally Posted by fuzzymctiger

My observations are that the Arrow has more grain, and is brighter.

I also thought it had more grain at first glance, but looking more closely it's actually compression artifacts. Yes, it does resemble film grain.

[Pete]

Saw the limited edition in HMV today for £15 which I thought was quite reasonable.

[Steel76]

Arrow really should have a talk with the encoders and tell them to bring up the filesize and bitrates, so these damn artifacts won´t pop up again.
Most of you might not care, but for us with bigger screens/projectors, having artifacts dancing around on the screen IS very distracting.
It shouldn´t need to look like a MKV rip.

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Steel76

It shouldn´t need to look like a MKV rip.

Eh, it doesn't. Bit of an exaggeration there.