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[Livingskeletons]

Heat is supposedly a bad Blu Ray transfer, I've never seen it on the format myself.


What are some poor or mediocre Blu Ray Transfers?

 

[Perfect Blue]

The Killer and Hard Boiled come to mind.

 

[epmode]

Disney's The Sword in the Stone is abysmal. I blind-bought it because their animation transfers are usually excellent.

 

[HUELEN10]

Disney's The Sword in the Stone is abysmal. I blind-bought it because their animation transfers are usually excellent.

How bad are we talking about?

 

[Lys Skygge]

Predator

 

[Jarrod38]

The Killer and Hard Boiled come to mind.

Heard anything from that studio has a poor transfer.

 

[NDP_Mulcair]

Disney's The Sword in the Stone is abysmal. I blind-bought it because their animation transfers are usually excellent.

And Robin Hood.

Left is the DVD, right is the Blu-Ray.

DNR completely ruined that transfer.

 

[davidwhangchoi]

Predator

the first 2008 release of predator blu ray w grain was much better

 

[Lys Skygge]

the first 2008 release of predator blu ray w grain was much better

Yeah, the DNR in the 2010 version is hilariously bad.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

And Robin Hood.

Left is the DVD, right is the Blu-Ray.

DNR completely ruined that transfer.

What the hell! They cropped it, ruined the color balance and DNR'd it. Did they let WB Animation do this transfer or something? Jeeez

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

I remember that hearing that Fifth Element had such a poor BR release, that they had to rerelease it a year later.

 

[Anth0ny]

Predator is the ultimate worst.

Star Wars is pretty terrible, too.

 

[vatstep]

I remember that hearing that Fifth Element had such a poor BR release, that they had to rerelease it a year later.

The same thing happened with Gladiator. There was a HUGE uproar about it.

 

[bobawesome]

Master Keaton looks absolutely terrible.

 

[davidwhangchoi]

Yeah, the DNR in the 2010 version is hilariously bad.

everyone face looks like plastic. lol

another is Macross: Do you Remember Love? terrible anime transfer

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

And Robin Hood.

Left is the DVD, right is the Blu-Ray.

DNR completely ruined that transfer.

It's like a ReShade preset

 

[Soapbox Killer]

The Killer and Hard Boiled come to mind.

I haven't seen either of these on anything other than VHS...and The Killer is a top 5 movie all time for me. I'm sleepin'

 

[epmode]

How bad are we talking about?

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Sword-in-the-Stone-Blu-ray/44743/

However, having carefully analyzed the film three times on three different displays, then poring over dozens of screenshots, it's become clearer and clearer that the choices made over the course of remastering the film for high definition have only made things worse. Much, much worse. This is, without a doubt, the bottom of the barrel when it comes to the animated presentations Disney has released on Blu-ray.

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

Almost everything pre-Rush Hour from Jackie Chan has a bad transfer.

 

[Enter the Dragon Punch]

The original US BR for Gulliver's Travels is the worst of all time. It's not even a competition.

Even SITS is better.

 

[Transistor]

The first release of The Fifth Element was so bad that they replaced your disk for free with a new remaster.

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/s...emaster_and_Replacement_Exchange_Program_/705

 

[TheXbox]

Predator is the ultimate worst.

Star Wars is pretty terrible, too.

Star Wars is not even close to Predator. It looks a little pink, yeah. At least the humans don't look like they're made out of clay.

 

[zeshakag]

The LOTR EE is green as fuck, at least the one I own. Everything is darker and has a weird saturation.

Here's a screenshot from another discussion I was not a part of that is detailing my problem.
http://www.imgur.com/JmRe39h

 

[Transistor]

The LOTR EE is green as fuck, at least the one I own. Everything is darker and has a weird saturation.

Here's a screenshot from another discussion I was not a part of that is detailing my problem.
http://www.imgur.com/JmRe39h

I thought they fixed it in the EE, but fucked it up in the non-EE.....

 

[TAJ]

I thought they fixed it in the EE, but fucked it up in the non-EE.....

No, the non-EE has the original timing but it's a really dated transfer. EE would have looked great but they tried to make it look more "modern". There's no good Blu of FotR.

How bad are we talking about?

http://postimage.org/

 

[Currygan]

the first Fugitive one is some seriously horrible shit

 

[omnislayer]

I remember hearing Interstella 5555 was pretty bad.

 

[Persona7]

And Robin Hood.

Left is the DVD, right is the Blu-Ray.

DNR completely ruined that transfer.

ew that is awful

 

[LosDaddie]

Predator

What are you saying here? The Ultimate version is worse? I have the 2008 version, and it's not anything special, PQ-wise.

 

[MMarston]

Predator

 

[Drensch]

Butch Cassidy is real bad, I'd love to own it, but there isn't a good release.

I think Predator isn't too, bad. I went in expecting horrific, wasn't as bad as I'd been led to believe.

 

[unholyrevenger72]

Superman Returns

 

[geomon]

Someone please rescue this movie.

 

[Thebeardofknowledge]

Aladdin sequels

 

[Princess Viola]

And Robin Hood.

Left is the DVD, right is the Blu-Ray.

DNR completely ruined that transfer.

god it looks like the shitty smoothing filters you find in like emulators

 

[SchrodingerC]

Someone please rescue this movie.

They ruined Tremors as well? Now that is a tragedy.

 

[Persona7]

Master Keaton looks absolutely terrible.

Is this a bad transfer or bad source quality?

 

[Aaron Strife]

Aladdin sequels

Yup Disney crops all of their animated films that were animated in 4:3 it seems, except for the platinum edition ones that people actually give a shit about.

The unfortunate thing about Sword in the Stone is there was actually a really good HD master of that available on iTunes, but when the blu came out they replaced it. Hooray.

 

[kitschykitty]

Canada got screwed over by Alliance for blu-ray transfers, its been a while but if I remember correctly they only had the rights to distribute TV versions of the films so the aspect ratios were off, they were usually only 1080i, generally looked bad and had poor audio. The worst part? There were good transfers of the films being made for the US but they just didn't sell those ones in Canada, I'd assume it was some licencing deal but I do remember them releasing the good US versions later.

The films I remember off the top of my head were Sin City and The Butterfly Effect (which only had the alternate ending on the disc)

 

[Mighty Chin]

Star Wars! Blues jacked up.

 

[Lys Skygge]

What are you saying here? The Ultimate version is worse? I have the 2008 version, and it's not anything special, PQ-wise.

While the '08 version isn't very good, the 2010 version is much worse. I don't think a good transfer exists.

 

[TAJ]

Heaven & Earth looks terrible.
House of Flying Daggers, too.

A lot of Paramount catalog titles (like Top Gun and The Untouchables) have a DNR that looks kinda bad in screenshots but godawful in motion. It's like they took the grain from one frame of each shot and then had the characters move through it. The grain pattern just ripples and warps around anything that's moving.

And almost every Universal movie from the '90s looks pretty gross, even big titles like the Jurassic Park movies.

 

[Red]

Why do major studios implement DNR? Why not just keep the grain? It gives me a headache to think about all the people who must be watching DNR'd movies on TVs with DNR post processing enabled.

Those Disney transfers are an absolute travesty.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Are people looking at the caps being posted in this thread before they say Star Wars?

There's a magenta push on the Star Wars blus (and a green tint to Fellowship of the Ring) but they're nowhere near as fucked as Tremors, Sword in the Stone, Robin Hood, Predator, etc. etc.

Also, this thread is fucking heartbreaking. Upscaled DVD looks better than some of this shit. Hell, projected LASERDISC would be preferable to whatever they did to Robin Hood.

 

[Extra Sauce]

While the '08 version isn't very good, the 2010 version is much worse. I don't think a good transfer exists.

There is a 30 year anniversary and Shane Black movie incoming, I could see a new Predator remaster being released to coincide with those.

 

[Red]

What's up with that Tremors screen cap? Am I seeing DNR and sharpening both pumped to absurdly high levels?

 

[Ridley327]

Shit, I had heard about what happened with Robin Hood, but I didn't realize it was that bad. I know Disney films from that era was a little rougher in terms of the drawings, but they went way the fuck overboard with trying to "fix" that film.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Wait, wasn't there a new transfer of Predator done for a recent 3D blu-ray? The 2D version of that's gotta exist somewhere, right?

 

[Pagusas]

Why do major studios implement DNR? Why not just keep the grain? It gives me a headache to think about all the people who must be watching DNR'd movies on TVs with DNR post processing enabled.

Those Disney transfers are an absolute travesty.

Focus testing. The majority of people associate film grain with bad quality/ugly. Doesn't make them right, just makes them the biggest pile of money.

 

[Red]

Focus testing. The majority of people associate film grain with bad quality/ugly. Doesn't make them right, just makes them the biggest pile of money.

Is this the official reason? There is a lot about the home video market that is a complete mystery to me.