Goldeneye R1 (SE) vs UK R2 (SE) vs UK R2 (UE)

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 17 Jul 2006, 23:39

Mark: Could you update the comparison please. I can if you wish but you know you want to

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 17 Jul 2006, 23:50

The skintones of Brosnan's face in UE Cap 3 looks more natural, but otherwise, oh dear! The cropping is terrible, even compared to Tomorrow Never Dies. Why?? On the plus side for the UE, it's sharpness is less artificial, see Cap 4, resulting in a smoother picture. But it's missing too much info and is too dark as well, again see Cap 3. R1 Cap 2 shows the missing captions, deliberatley designed to be golden. In fact, I've always thought the movie had a golden tint to it, which has been deemphasied in the UE. UE Cap 5 looks surprisingly soft, bordering on the blurry. UE Cap 6 is smoother again, but plain dull. What went wrong...?

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 18 Jul 2006, 00:03

The UE looks God-awful.

slasher13 · Post by **slasher13** » 20 Jul 2006, 15:50

Oh good, then I won't need to upgrade my R1 SE version

Player Generated Titles ---- Yuck!!!

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 20 Jul 2006, 17:09

My R2 NL SE has the player captions I think.. oh well.

captainjoe · Post by **captainjoe** » 01 Sep 2006, 00:40

The colour in the face of Bond looks better but again the cropping is disappointing and the whole thing seems a little too dark.

Other than those two problems I think the UE is better. I know that the encoding on the R1 SE is terrible with blocking and pixelation in many of the action scenes. It's annyoing though knowing they had a good chance to really make a great transfer but they really dropped the ball on Goldeneye. This really is the only movie I think has a bad transfer out of all the other 19.