Mandible
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Hey all.
I picked up the blu rays yesterday and finally had a chance to look over them today.
I consider Raiders to be a "perfect" movie, so as you can imagine I was pretty excited about the blu ray release and especially the extensive remastering that has been done on Raiders.
FIRST IMPRESSION:
OMG...WTF???
I put Raiders into my high-end THX Integra player, switched on the calibrated Pioneer plasma, and within 10 seconds of it starting, thought I had a problem with my system; the color was washed out with an ugly yellow/orange wash through the whole thing and the contrast level was pumped so high I had extensively blown-out whites.
Quickly, and before my head exploded, I placed the Avatar blu ray into the player and low and behold, it was perfect...
Back in went Raiders, followed by the other three, in sheer hope and desperation that it may have only been Raiders that had this problem. Unfortunately, it's on all four films.
My first thought was that it must be a faulty disc, but before charging off to my retailer, I decided to do some investigation on the net. To my surprise, that is how all the currently available (Europe, UK, Australia, New Zealand) versions look - and man is it bad.
So in conclusion, I would warn anyone living in those areas to run a mile and hold hope that the US mastering has nailed it. My copy is the Australian version and, further to my previous comments, the skin tones are so repugnantly orange I had to flick my calibrated plasma over to the crappy "Cinema" preset so that it was watchable.
Now the wait begins to see if the reviews of the US version sing a similar tune; God, I hope not, for it will be a grim day for any Indy fan if this has been a conscious decision by Spielberg.
Fingers crossed people.
I picked up the blu rays yesterday and finally had a chance to look over them today.
I consider Raiders to be a "perfect" movie, so as you can imagine I was pretty excited about the blu ray release and especially the extensive remastering that has been done on Raiders.
FIRST IMPRESSION:
OMG...WTF???
I put Raiders into my high-end THX Integra player, switched on the calibrated Pioneer plasma, and within 10 seconds of it starting, thought I had a problem with my system; the color was washed out with an ugly yellow/orange wash through the whole thing and the contrast level was pumped so high I had extensively blown-out whites.
Quickly, and before my head exploded, I placed the Avatar blu ray into the player and low and behold, it was perfect...
Back in went Raiders, followed by the other three, in sheer hope and desperation that it may have only been Raiders that had this problem. Unfortunately, it's on all four films.
My first thought was that it must be a faulty disc, but before charging off to my retailer, I decided to do some investigation on the net. To my surprise, that is how all the currently available (Europe, UK, Australia, New Zealand) versions look - and man is it bad.
So in conclusion, I would warn anyone living in those areas to run a mile and hold hope that the US mastering has nailed it. My copy is the Australian version and, further to my previous comments, the skin tones are so repugnantly orange I had to flick my calibrated plasma over to the crappy "Cinema" preset so that it was watchable.
Now the wait begins to see if the reviews of the US version sing a similar tune; God, I hope not, for it will be a grim day for any Indy fan if this has been a conscious decision by Spielberg.
Fingers crossed people.
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