Sailor Ripley
Miembro habitual
Confirmo que la edición inglesa posee audio y subtítulos en castellano, tanto en la película como en los extras.
Y se ve así
Y se ve así
Archibald Alexander Leach dijo:En efecto, el Blu-ray adolece de la aplicación de DNR, presagio de lo que luego ha seguido haciendo Paramount con todos los clásicos. Así que imagen de referencia nada de nada.
seakermdc dijo:Ya, pero 20 años después la película merecería una buena mezcla en 5.1. El Surround no debería ser una de las características en plena era Blu-Ray.
Valek dijo:A mi en un primer visionado me pareció una pasada, la verdad que la disfruté como un gorrino y a lo mejor no me fijé mucho en los pixeles una vez empezada.
aqui la ponen muy bien
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/786/untouchables.html
'The Untouchables' looks wonderfully sharp throughout, but the cost is an artificial cast.
What ultimately keeps this transfer from rating even more highly is that it has clearly been tweaked, and suffers from some edge enhancement as a result.
Image : 9
Clean, dense, noise-free and without distracting blemishes, though perhaps not as excruciatingly detailed as more recent movies, the picture is utterly filmlike - not merely acceptable, but completely convincing as a movie image. We are always confident about what materials are involved: from a silk vest to a felt hat, from a gun barrel to a sheet metal automobile fender, from the inexperienced smoothness of Costner's face to the wisdom of Connery's.
Paramount gives The Untouchables a nice 1080p 2.35 to 1 transfer using the MPEG4 AVC codec. Using a BD50 format disc, the transfer has plenty of room to stretch its legs. The bitrate starts in the low 30Mbps range and stays there for the majority of the feature. Print damage is minimal, with little to no grain. Colors are rich without oversaturation, flesh tones are accurate, though sometimes it seems they lean a bit to the red side. Shadow details are clear without dissolving into noise: the opening raid scene at night is nearly as crisp and clear as anything in the daytime. In the scene where Ness firsts encounters Malone on the bridge you can clearly see the black belt strap layered atop the navy blue of Malone’s uniform against a dark background. The jump to Blu-ray from SD DVD brings out additional details that I’ve never seen or noticed before: the freckles on the young girl in the opening sequence, smoke wafting from cigars in ashtrays, footprints in the luxurious carpets of the Lexington Hotel. In today’s age of CGI and color grading, the natural look of the film is refreshing because you don’t have to guess what the intended look was on video.
The transfer appears to have received processing that may be mistaken by some for edge enhancement. Personally I couldn’t find any edge halos and other artifacts typically associated with that. A typical symptom of the processing is most noticeable in the opening scene where the text appears to shift a bit. It seems to depend on the type of display, those with LCD type displays will probably see nothing distracting where the additional sharpness may be a bit much on CRTs. Other than that, this is still a solid transfer to high definition disc of a 20 year old film.
Robert A. Harris dijo:What I'm seeing is what a friend and co-worker has defined as the "CBS Movie of the Week" look.
What this means is that grain has been heavily reduced to a point at which it really no longer exists, except that it occasionally seems to hang, unmoving, on a background.
High frequency information that would have been carried within the grain has been lost along with the grain, and the resultant image has then been slightly sharpened or tweaked to attempt to bring the missing information back. This is something that is extremely difficult to do well, if one finds the need to do it. Forensics, perhaps?
On Mr. Connery's face, it appears as a virtual loss of definition and detail, and an artificial darkening and sharpening of facial features such as lines, almost taking on the appearance of our old friend, electronic enhancement, but in high definition mode. Viewed close up, it gives the actors an extremely artificial look. Essentially this seems to be an attempt to bring back detail originally captured by Mr. Burum's lens, removed via grain reduction and then artifically added back via resultant sharpening.
Another friend has defined this as the "freshly waxed linoleum" look.
Robert A. Harris dijo:Does it matter?
I believe it does, as it disallows the film to look like film, and turns it into something else -- more like those beautifully scrubbed new editions of the Disney classics, which are fine, as young children should be kept away from both dirt and grain, unless parents are going to have them sent in for occasional dry cleaning.
Will it affect the way that the general public looks at this disc.
Not one bit.
The reality is that they'll be thrilled by both it's cleanliness and "apparent" sharpness. This is a disc that will be well reviewed, and possibly a wonderful test case for understanding how to read both reviews as well as reviewers.
The Untouchables is a terrifically entertaining film, that in HD and BD is just a bit different than it might have looked with all of the photographic detail that would have been enabled by the high definition process left intact.
For everyone except those dozen people who will react negatively to a decidedly non-film look, the disc is Recommended to the general populace.
Valek dijo:Tengo la Uk y tiene una imagen y sonido de referencia, muy recomendable.
Sailor Ripley dijo:Gracias, Archibald, por esos enlaces y esa info.
Yo también estoy a favor de preservar el original de como han sido concebidas las obras. Si tienen grano, que lo conserven.
No obstante sigo pensando que la copia de The Untouchables, en las condiciones que la he visto (pantalla de 32") se ve muy bien (ha sido luego, leyendo en el foro, cuando me he enterado de que tiene DNR), mejor incluso que algunos títulos más recientes. Sería a partir de ese conocimiento que lo buscaría en sus imágenes en un próximo visionado por ver dónde se nota.