I'm dipping into each disc... about 6 in now (of 14). The first one that shows sign of some heavy handedness is
THE BIRDS, unfortunately.
The grain structure seems to be moving more slowly than it should (because software's trying to control it) and when the camera pans, the grain structure looks like gauze that takes time to react. Particularly noticeable on patterned fabrics.
Beginning of Chapter 17, 01:33:55. Look in the sky at the black dots?
Most people will probably think it all looks great. For the most part, it does. I just know it could have been better.
FRENZY also falls into this category of "havingbeenmuckedwith". This time there's no grain at all. You can see the software fighting to suppress the grain, which occasionally fights to be seen in light areas but is completely absent most of the time. When Hitch holds that shot on the door for 20 seconds, I thought I'd sat on the pause button. No movement in the picture whatsoever.
I've discovered that the opening credits of FRENZY have been completely redone. They looked too clean and digital to me. They've obviously found some better clean underlying footage of the fly in to London Bridge and entirely reconfigured all the white text from scratch over it, but I noticed all apostrophes and quote marks were "unintelligent". Checked the DVD and they're all "intelligent" there. Then I started spotting typos in the re-typed text. What a bloody mess. Poor "Angela Martelli" and "Peter Handford" suffer multiple typos to become "Angelea Mertelli" and "Peter Hanford". I wonder when this was done
FAMILY PLOT is the most uneven and problematic Blu-ray transfer so far. I don't know where to start...
First impressions of
SHADOW OF A DOUBT BD were "wow". Reminded me very much of the quality of MoC TOUCH OF EVIL
BD. Ropey transitions that then pop, and everything looks super nice.
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First impressions of
REAR WINDOW BD very good. Light speckle like VERTIGO that could have very easily been removed (for two such major league titles). Still looked great though.
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First impressions of
ROPE - colours look off, faded, browny.
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