DVDs you have avoided upgrading to Blu Ray...

[bradavon]

The Terminator - Another MGM mono drop. WTF? When's that loooong awaied SE coming out? R1 SE DVD stays put.

There's plenty else wrong with it to. It's a very old US only disc. Where is that bloody SE already?

Re. Casino Royale: I'd like to get the 2-disc deluxe BD but it went OOP.

It's the same master remember. All they did was replace the same lossless pcm mix with a truehd one (not sure why they bothered, most extras were on disc 2) and bung on some extras. I didn't upgrade because the extras didn't interest me.

[Shingster]

Is the film meant to have no black in it?

Just assumed there was some IRE step-up issue with the master maybe, that and the film is getting on now so I wouldn't exactly expect inky blacks (I really ought to revisit the DVD sometime).

[gasteropod]

I do wonder if some Japanese masters are calibrated for NTSC-J which has some different values to NTSC and PAL, and then Western companies forget to adjust the brightness. Just a theory, as I have noticed several Japanese films being too bright.

[grim_tales]

I had no idea Japanese NTSC was different to US NTSC Gas, I thought they were both the same

[gasteropod]

They have to do everything differently, bless 'em

[bradavon]

NTSC and PAL can differ per country/region.

[gasteropod]

Kuroneko - I'm unsure whether to upgrade to the Criterion BD because my DVD is a lovely MoC release.

Scratch that, watched it last night and the brightness is far too high, I'm assuming the Criterion will sort that out so will wait for the DVD Beaver comparison.

And voila: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReview ... Review.htm