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In Reply to: RE: You must be a perfect customer for them $2.99 "As Seen on TV" Contrast Enhancing glasses posted by Victor Khomenko on May 07, 2011 at 16:40:51

go to theaters, anymore? Trust me, HD & B-R D are very, very close wherein the "regular" isn't even close. First off, we'd have to agree that the goal is to imitate as closely as possible the film experience.

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I don't have a problem with good transfer, I was concerned with the word contrasty. - Victor Khomenko 18:20:54 05/07/11 (0)
Given the tools we have today, any originally gray-scale B&W film can be "enhanced", pulling its dynamic range wider. I think I saw one film like that, with the degree of contrast that struck me as outside the typical film realm.

One might say the films used in the forties and fifties were deficient in their ability to preset the real scale... hence we should try to "improve" them. Here we have the ghost of colorization raising its head.

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