Video Asylum

Posted by Cosmic Closet (A) on January 17, 2009 at 12:13:11

In Reply to: RE: not all BDs are the same? posted by tvnoob on January 15, 2009 at 21:16:35

Yes, good points,

I think with the BD production ramping up, and us now getting a bit more 'hindsight' to work with in the format, we can start seeing a layering of quality levels within the format.

The one big one mentioned is definitely the grain removal software.
Why is it that in no time grain has become 'a defect' instead of 'the nature of film'? On regular DVDs from just a few years ago, there is grain, and no one has died looking at them.
Part of it, I think, is precisely that digital video is making headway in theatres (both as internegative and for projection) right at the time that BD is coming up, so I guess people subconsciously suddenly see film grain and go "What's wrong?" But the BD reviewers aren't helping by mentioning film grain as if it is a defect.

The weirdly 'empty'(well,'video' really) look of a film with no grain is something I really hope gets kept in check.
As I understand, both 'Patton' and 'Gangs of New York' suffer from this to excess.

I just viewed "The Shining" BD again; just can't get enough of the images. There is a disc done right, from a superb source.