The Sword-Wang Yu Screencaps...

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 15 Mar 2007, 15:46

This much sought after Jimmy Wang Yu wuxia has just been released by Crash Cinema.It's the only dvd available of this movie,thought i'd provide some caps from the dvd

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 15 Mar 2007, 15:48

don't know why the caps are boxed,took them at 720x404

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 15 Mar 2007, 15:55

Isn't the movie itself window-boxed ?
Have you tried playing it on your PC to check ?

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 15 Mar 2007, 15:57

to be honest just got the dvd earlier,haven't even checked it before taking caps

it probably is windowboxed.##edit## yes it is

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 15 Mar 2007, 16:21

hey,

and dvdtalk really slammed both the film and Crash for not presenting the film in super digital remastered glory, like they promise on the box. Thing is, there's a press release promising that they've done what they can considering the rarity of this and other flicks in this format.

smarterray · Post by **smarterray** » 15 Mar 2007, 16:33

Where'd you pick this one up?

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 15 Mar 2007, 16:34

dvdpacific

chenlung · Post by **chenlung** » 15 Mar 2007, 20:17

saltysam wrote:It's the only dvd available of this movie,thought i'd provide some caps from the dvd

Argh

! Was hoping to jump on you for them being out of sync with the 'other version' 8) .

Anyway, why the hell is it windowboxed

?

tigerstyles · Post by **tigerstyles** » 15 Mar 2007, 20:45

surely window boxing it shows the full image in respect to most tv displays overscanning! thus preserving the whole image..

chenlung · Post by **chenlung** » 15 Mar 2007, 23:21

tigerstyles wrote:surely window boxing it shows the full image in respect to most tv displays overscanning! thus preserving the whole image..

For people that don't have overscan, it's a problem - all that wasted resolution.

Shame the back cover was misleading (no trailer) and the menus weren't anamorphic.

Linn · Post by **Linn** » 16 Mar 2007, 03:45

chenlung wrote:Shame the back cover was misleading (no trailer)

Yeah, I think it's a stock back they use. At the time when they were putting it together, they may have thought they had it. I've got the trailer, which is pretty rare, but I was hoping for a better copy. That said, I was happy to have the film.

As for window boxing, I don't think I've ever seen it on DVDs except in the case of full screen presentations.

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 16 Mar 2007, 05:05

hey,

The Japanese dvd of red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou) featured windowboxing. Can't say it bothered me.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 16 Mar 2007, 09:52

Those subs look hard to read. I'd still like to see the film though. I guess we're lucky to have it on DVD, if its a rare film.

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 16 Mar 2007, 10:03

hey,

if you think those subs are unreadable, you ain't seen nothing, grim. It's something you get used to when viewing a particular film. Same will surely be true for The sword.

Linn · Post by **Linn** » 19 Mar 2007, 07:51

I have some films that have subs at least two times smaller than those! You have to set right up on the TV to read them!

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 19 Mar 2007, 11:15

hey,

watch Ronny Yu's The Phantom Lover with the original cinema subs and in its original aspect ratio.

About this size...even smaller

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 19 Mar 2007, 15:52

Bad subs are a curse on HK cinema - even some new DVD subs seem done by a chipmunk with brain desease

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 19 Mar 2007, 15:55

hey,

that's a separate issue, Ivan.

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 19 Mar 2007, 20:44

True. I agree about the font and size issues. It makes some of these films a bit of a pain to follow

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 04 May 2007, 03:48

Having watched the DVD myself, I think it's a good presentation. Curiously, the CRT set I watched it on had trouble with the NTSC pulldown on this one - everything looked a bit slow and jerky whenever the fast action came on - but it looked fine on my PC

Does anyone know what limitation interlaced NTSC can cause with traditional TVs?

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 04 May 2007, 04:52

Ivan Drago wrote:Does anyone know what limitation interlaced NTSC can cause with traditional TVs?

You get jerky playback if your TV is forced into PAL mode. Switch the TV System mode to Auto or NTSC.

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 04 May 2007, 05:06

I think this TV just does Auto. My DVD player converts interlaced material into progressive - so no ghosting compared to my old player. Maybe there's a communication error between the disc, the player and the TV

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 04 May 2007, 08:15

hey,

any thoughts on the FILM, Ivan?

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 04 May 2007, 08:39

I liked it. The subs are a real pain but the film is well made enough to get by on the strenght of its direction and feel. Jimmy is good in it too

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 04 May 2007, 08:55

hey,

for me, was a struggle to read maybe 2-3 sentences in the film, that was it and it's indeed not the subs that tell the whole story.

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