For years I have collected Cinefex though the mid 80’s a bit late as well as missing some rarer issues printed years before that stated to fetch money. I stopped collecting around early 2000’s as the price at Boarders was getting too steep.
Anyway I thought I’d point out some of the rotten consumer video transfers to laserdisc, with no real changes to colour balance quality or framing on some films.
The still images in the magazine are so good I’d say its far to say they can be used for comparison. If I had laser scanner I could get far better pictures, so I’ve had to use my digital camera in (Text mode) under room light conditions. The quality is not far off.
One offending laserdisc to son of THX laserdisc to VHS to the son of THX DVD to the son of lousy bluray! T2 the colour balance on that video consumer version is miles off the mark.
THX DVD region 2 note the tone of the clour blue in the still image on the Cinefex^^above against this sickening over coloured video version below
˅ ˅. Its way too high on colour which often leads to horroble cayn green (when hot white lights shine onto the image).
Forget about the framing as Terminator 2 and ID4 were both filmed in Super35 so there not true anamorphic scope.
I’ll be looking for more stills of films with rotten colour because you know I’d sooner have the version that was released in the cinema.
If you watch the trailer to T2 you’ll note the colour balance is bit more correct than the BS version they give us, to milk us to scam us all out of money, no doubt.
Very few decent transfers ever do show up I mean very few! I think sites like bluray.com try to hide the poorer images of the film bluray transfer in some of their screen captures, and some sites seem to show the truth.
If we all had a 35mm/70mm cells we’d all be showing them up and showing how rotten crocked the studios are to make fools out of us. I’m sick and tired of being ripped off!
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