Collector's Cove (Post Pictures of Your Loot)

[PhantomSentry]

I don't see how it's possible. I figured the whole "You can't polish a turd" thing applied here. Unless a lot is secretly being redone, I don't get it.

[Lord of Pirates]

By cleaning it up and scanning at higher resolution. Film can resolve loads of detail, especially if it's shot well.

[banditwolf]

I don't see how it's possible. I figured the whole "You can't polish a turd" thing applied here. Unless a lot is secretly being redone, I don't get it.

Except you can polish most turds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiJ9...qJy_AH0TE6JzSt

[xelement5x]

I don't see how it's possible. I figured the whole "You can't polish a turd" thing applied here. Unless a lot is secretly being redone, I don't get it.

So, there is a lot of different ways to do it but here is that clip I was talking about for Seven Samurai specifically:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7WkwPZCWWM

In my understanding, a lot of it boils down to the fact that since you have analogue film material, you can scan that original at higher and higher resolutions and work with what you have there to clean up the source. The film base is a closer representation of the original shots, and has more to work with.

This is also why remasters of certain older animes (like Macross: Do You Remember Love, or BubbleGum Crisis) look amazing, since the original source material was animation cells shot on film and composited, then released. Later stuff in the 90s where there was shift to digital production can cause problems though, since it was made digitally at a lower SD resolution of like 480 (for TV/DVD), you really have no way to get better details, just upscale the crap out of it and try to manually fix spots where it didn't turn out as well.

[Gypsy]

So, there is a lot of different ways to do it but here is that clip I was talking about for Seven Samurai specifically:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7WkwPZCWWM

In my understanding, a lot of it boils down to the fact that since you have analogue film material, you can scan that original at higher and higher resolutions and work with what you have there to clean up the source. The film base is a closer representation of the original shots, and has more to work with.

This is also why remasters of certain older animes (like Macross: Do You Remember Love, or BubbleGum Crisis) look amazing, since the original source material was animation cells shot on film and composited, then released. Later stuff in the 90s where there was shift to digital production can cause problems though, since it was made digitally at a lower SD resolution of like 480 (for TV/DVD), you really have no way to get better details, just upscale the crap out of it and try to manually fix spots where it didn't turn out as well.

Yeah the Bubblegum Crisis blu is pretty awesome.

[Lord of Pirates]

I feel Bluray is completely unnecessary for those films. Very cool tho, love them.

I think it's been the best format for a lot of releases so far. The transfers seem to be getting better attention and care than DVD.

[zanth1979]

If that's the case, then that's great. I guess I do have a BD of Bridge over the River Kwai, and it looks fantastic.

[Gypsy]

Being able to have uncompressed audio is pretty great, however sometimes the source material is lacking there and there isn't really anything to do about that.

But yeah the transfers have been much better. The original DVD transfer of Blade Runner was an embarrassment.

[banditwolf]

Being able to have uncompressed audio is pretty great, however sometimes the source material is lacking there and there isn't really anything to do about that.

But yeah the transfers have been much better. The original DVD transfer of Blade Runner was an embarrassment.

Needs more digital dewbacks and walkers.

[Gypsy]

Needs more digital dewbacks and walkers.

What?

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