Bullets 'n' Babes

tom2681 wrote:Note: I always include 5 different types of shots in my comparisons.

I noticed . I like clear human shots best so find the last one the most useful.

Some wide shots (although I can see why you use them) are too vague to get a good idea IMO, unless the colours for example are wildly different of course.

tom2681 wrote:A dark cap, a bright one, a wide shot, a close-up and a random frame.

Do you always use the first frame from a new scene? Eva and I do as it makes it significantly easier for other to match captures, it also makes it much easier to match captures yourself. I'm guessing you don't as doing this reduces the amount of captures you can use.

tom2681 wrote:It's a low-bitrate Mpeg-2 encode after all.

Grrr. Sony and their bloody old MPEG2 BDs. They used it way too much back in the day. All reviews say Terminator 1 and House of Fallen Daggers (it's cut too) look like a DVD.

Brad wrote:House of Fallen Daggers

Now that's a brilliant typo. :pirate:

Brad wrote:Do you always use the first frame from a new scene

Not always.
The first frame often looks crap in low-bitrate transfers.
That's why I often use the third or fourth frame instead.

tom2681 wrote:Now that's a brilliant typo. :pirate:

He he, oops.

tom2681 wrote:Not always.
The first frame often looks crap in low-bitrate transfers.
That's why I often use the third or fourth frame instead.

I thought so. That makes it much harder for others to match captures. Personally I think it should be a rule we always use the first frame of a scene and if that looks rubbish we find another scene.

You have to remember Brad I am looking at these caps full 1080 size on a 40 inch screen I use for watching the HD films, so mine is calibrated to how I will be watching them and I sit the same distance.

I would guess you are looking at these on a smaller screen, or your laptop?

and yes I would give it 1 or 2 out of 10, go find me worse images on comparisons on this very site, it wont be that easy (but I am sure theres a few shitty ones)
5 out of 10 is insane for the second capture, the others are barley 5 out of 10.

If I was judging the entire film on them caps alone I would stay away in fear of compression hell but hey I know many times some of these nasty problems you do not notice too much when its in motion in front of your eyes.

Imagine of you had a 150 inch screen, they would blind you with its nasty lego blocking

I don't think 1080p is intended for 150 inch screens...

romerojpg wrote:You have to remember Brad I am looking at these caps full 1080 size on a 40 inch screen I use for watching the HD films, so mine is calibrated to how I will be watching them and I sit the same distance.

It's still a "JPEG" + "Capture". Both have an effect on how different they look compared to the Blu-ray Disc.

romerojpg wrote:I would guess you are looking at these on a smaller screen, or your laptop?

I use a cinema screen .

romerojpg wrote:5 out of 10 is insane for the second capture, the others are barley 5 out of 10.

I'm talking about the BD as a whole. I'm not interesting in discussing "one capture", it's dumb IMO.

romerojpg wrote:but hey I know many times some of these nasty problems you do not notice too much when its in motion in front of your eyes.

Exactly. Too many decisions are made on "still captures".

Thats why I buy every DVD and Blu Ray ever made and see for myself hence the lack of room for mountains of discs.

I do the same, although not to the same extent as you. I'm determined to keep my collection (DVD + HD) no larger than around 475. It was around 625 but is now at 466.

I'm determined to buy one, sell one. I just don't have the room. I had a box full of DVDs in a cupboard when I moved in and I hated doing that.

I was joking I am selling tonnes at the mo, trying to sell the standard dvd before I get the HD version at the least.

Kung Fu hustle I will buy on HD, but it would have to be damn cheap.

bradavon wrote:I'm determined to keep my collection (DVD + HD) no larger than around 475.

Haha, how specific, why not 500? . Lately I've been trying to be more ruthless with my collection too, hence my selling parts of my Jackie Chan collection (Wheels on Meals for instance), and Cars Blu-ray . I find it really difficult to choose what to sell, I always convince myself of certain reasons to keep everything haha.

gasteropod wrote:Haha, how specific, why not 500? .

I did say "around" 475 . 500 is too many, simply because I'm not prepared to buy any more storage (it would be OTT and I have no room), it gets silly and I have only a handful of slots left. It's actually about 470 .

gasteropod wrote:I find it really difficult to choose what to sell, I always convince myself of certain reasons to keep everything haha.

I know exactly what you mean. It's particularly hard for films you "quite like". I quite like Tom Yum Goong and particularly certain scenes but overall I decided it had to go.

It's also tricky for films you cannot remember 100%. It's hard to know if I should keep it or sell it. I've been re-watching a fair few but that takes time and I always think I should be watching something new. I have sold a few I've not seen, simply because I want to see other films more and I won't miss not seeing them.

I have kept, House of the Dead so my quality filterings crapo.

and I review ever single thing I watch, so at least I have a way to filter, but hell some crap films as you say you may like

romerojpg wrote:I was joking I am selling tonnes at the mo, trying to sell the standard dvd before I get the HD version at the least.

Kung Fu hustle I will buy on HD, but it would have to be damn cheap.

Same here and MPEG2 for HD disc? I'd rather have AVC or VC-1 encode and on a BD-50.

No reason not to buy the UK Blu of KFH?