Texas Chain Saw Massacre: R1 Pioneer vs R1 Dark Sky Films
Posted: 29 Sep 2006, 01:39
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Top: R1 Pioneer special edition
Bottom: R1 Dark Sky Films ultimate edition
Dark Sky Films' transfer is clearly the winner. What a great job they did restoring this. Don May Jr. started the
restoration a few years ago for Monsters HD and did further work for this release. The captures clearly show the
wonderful results. It truly is a night-and-day difference in quality. The HD scanner allowed for more information
to be presented in the frame. Mastering at 1080P allowed for a lot more detail to come through. A lot of hard
work also went in to cleaning the dirt and scratches as well. The encoders did a very good job at giving the film
better compression through high bit-rates.
Top: R1 Pioneer special edition
Bottom: R1 Dark Sky Films ultimate edition
Dark Sky Films' transfer is clearly the winner. What a great job they did restoring this. Don May Jr. started the
restoration a few years ago for Monsters HD and did further work for this release. The captures clearly show the
wonderful results. It truly is a night-and-day difference in quality. The HD scanner allowed for more information
to be presented in the frame. Mastering at 1080P allowed for a lot more detail to come through. A lot of hard
work also went in to cleaning the dirt and scratches as well. The encoders did a very good job at giving the film
better compression through high bit-rates.
