Video Asylum

Posted by jbmcb (A) on April 17, 2005 at 12:19:14

In Reply to: Those reasons are exactly why I don't use digital animation for comparisons... posted by Harmonia on April 16, 2005 at 20:29:01:

> They look great on almost any digital display through most DVD players.

They do look very good, but if you pause a scene and look carefully any color bleed or imbalance, or contrast problems, or aliasing will leap out at you. The etch-a-sketch in Toy Story is a perfect example, if you look closely at a scene when it's moving you'll see if any decoder in your video chain has the chroma bug pretty quick.

> my special black levels/shadow detail torture test...Dark City.

Great movie, great transfer. I'm hoping for a really nice cleanup of Blade Runner sometime soon for the same purposes.

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