All the IVL shaws are crummy conversions. Image's are NTSC speed but I'm not sure how good the visual conversion is. Will get Have Sword, Will Travel next week to decide
bradavon wrote:
but I guess you're more intelligence than me.
The Image releases are PAL conversions as all of the Shaw masters were created in PAL for TV -- but Image have converted them back to NTSC speed hence the longer than IVL run time. The IVL's have the same standards conversion flaws as their DVDs are NTSC also -- although they haven't been time corrected. Some of the German DVD releases were native PAL.
Edited, so that my post hopefully makes more sense. 8)
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I know Image are PAL conversions, I just wondered if it was the same as IVL (improper with ghosting, fake anamorphic and combing) . But you've confirmed it's proper NTSC, so that's fine, what's not so fine is the lack of Cantonese and the combing (is it interlaced or progressive) - some other issues too.
IVLs have combing due to interlacing and ghosting on any display due to standards conversion flaws. They don't look very good. I think with Image we may loose the ghosting but I don't want to confuse anyone - or myself! - until I've seen one for myself
bradavon wrote:
but I guess you're more intelligence than me.
You lot been wearing Bradavon's glasses or something? Ignoring Interlacing issues, Image's release is fractionally darker and that is the only difference in those grabs. The percieved "colour difference" is down to the difference in brightness.
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Aye LCD screens are a bast for DVD comparisons. Best thing to do is keep both grabs in the same space onscreen by copying the url of the images and pasting them into a new window, then use your backwards and forwards button to flip back and forth between each image.
Just to clarify, it seems the Image releases are the PAL-NTSC versions stretched in NTSC speed, with the blurred frames now even more painfully evident
bradavon wrote:
but I guess you're more intelligence than me.
I've ignored the Image releases as they've all been disappointing and will continue to do so until I hear otherwise. I hope Dragon Dynasty do much better.
The thing is, there's no reason why they can't take a progressive PAL master, such as what we saw on the Australian DVDs, and convert that to an NTSC speed master. Only a moron - or the guys at Celetial - would make an NTSC speed master out of an existing PAL-NTSC conversion!
bradavon wrote:
but I guess you're more intelligence than me.