picture quality

  1. Celine2020

    Chalkboard writing vanishing on a pan is the DNR tell you cannot unsee

    Reading a report on the Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol disc and one detail jumped out more than the usual grain-scrubbing complaints. During the All Alone In The World sequence, the words and images written on the chalkboard reportedly disappear entirely while the camera pans across it. I do not...
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    Chalkboard text vanishing in a pan is the tell that DNR went too far

    The complaint doing the rounds about the new Magoo Christmas Carol disc comes with a very specific example, and it's the detail that makes me believe it. During the All Alone In The World sequence, the words and images on the chalkboard reportedly disappear as the camera pans across them...
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    Discs win on bitrate, but the master is what actually decides the picture

    The disc versus stream argument gets made badly nearly every time, and the reason is that people argue about the delivery format when the thing doing most of the work is upstream of it. Yes, a 4K disc carries far more data than any stream you can buy, and yes, that shows up first in the places...
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    Netflix put Stranger Things season one out in VHS quality, pan and scan

    For the show's tenth anniversary Netflix has posted season one of Stranger Things in a deliberately VHS-grade version - softer, blurrier and cropped to 4:3 with pan and scan, so you get black bars down the sides on a widescreen set. The Duffers framed it as how the show would have looked sitting...
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