Michael Brooke | 15th November 2015 09:36 AM | Quote:
Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs
(Post 468147)
I noticed the noise in Arrow's first Tenebrae release straight away as it was very distracting, however aside from that I can't recall noticing any excessive (and by excessive I mean to the extent where it takes me out of the film due to being so distracting) noise in any other Blu release I've seen so far - I have quite a backlog of titles to get through though. | I hadn't seen that when it came out and caught up with it when QCing their new version (so I had to do an A-B comparison) and was really startled by how horrendous it looked. And even more startled to come across online posts defending it on the grounds that it was "natural film grain" - on which planet?
Ironically, if the original version had been scheduled only a few months later, that master would have been rejected under the James White technical regime, just as the existing masters for Milano Calibro 9 and Nightmare City were turned down. (The other long-delayed release, The Honeymoon Killers, was in better shape, but when we heard that Criterion was doing a 4K original-neg restoration we decided that it would make sense to wait.) |