House On The Edge Of The Park - The Code Red VS Nocturno Italy Blu-ray Battle!

[Keeth Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Keeth]

Damn, now I'm going to have to go through all of my blu-rays to see if I can find wrinkles & individual hairs...

[enandalusiskhund An Andalusian Dog Find all posts View Profile Close enandalusiskhund]

Not exactly my point. These were merely examples. You can take any texture or surface really, and still see the abomination of excessive DNR. One of the big advantages HD has over SD is increased detail, that it's truer to the source material, but if all detail is lost due to excessive filtering, what's the point in even going with BD over DVD? You can get almost the same result by upscaling an SD image to HD if that's the look you enjoy, except you'll lose some clarity and get worse color reproduction. To me detail and faithful film like appearance are important details in HD releases, especially as I already own many of these films on DVD since before. If you don't care, that's okay too, but then I would say DVD is probably a good enough substitute.

[enandalusiskhund An Andalusian Dog Find all posts View Profile Close enandalusiskhund]

And just to be clear: Both of these releases look equally like steaming piles of shit. One just has the advantages of having good distribution, more realistic price point and the Italian dub.

[bgart13 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close bgart13]

There's other advantages to HD than just detail, such as improved color reproduction and sound quality.

[Sundance Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Sundance]

shitty Italian scanner noise crap vs French(?) no scanner noise goodness (it could look even better though)
http://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a...=67786&i=4&l=0

[Matt H. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Matt H.]

And just to be clear: Both of these releases look equally like steaming piles of shit. One just has the advantages of having good distribution, more realistic price point and the Italian dub.

Have you watched the CR version or are you judging by the screengrabs?

[Matt H. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Matt H.]

On the bright side, if anyone is in search of a flawless quality MP3 of "Do It to Me", look no more...

https://www.amazon.com/Fantasma-dAmo.../dp/B009IG1614

Oh, no! Just seeing the song title has forced that song back into my head!

[Alex K. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Alex K.]

Do it to me!
Do it to me!
I look for you!

[enandalusiskhund An Andalusian Dog Find all posts View Profile Close enandalusiskhund]

Have you watched the CR version or are you judging by the screengrabs?

Judging from these screens. It's clearly from the same transfer, so the source material CR had to work with was crap from the get go.

[Mark C. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mark C.]

I'm watching the film now and about halfway through it and the scanner noise is not that bad, The Blue Underground discs were waaaaayyy worse. The overall PQ in my book is not stellar but it ain't too bad either. It's the best I've ever seen this film look. As a caveat I would say the CR disc is overpriced for such a transfer though and if your on the fence and don't care about this film too much then spend your money elsewhere.

[AngelGuts Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close AngelGuts]

Yeah, it looks better to me too. The scanner noise and some DNR is still evident. Not perfect, but better.

Even if the transfers were identical CR would win for including the English audio (you need to HEAR Hess as well as SEE Hess!) and for including English friendly extras.

Do I wish the transfer was a new master? Yes. Am I happy with this disc? Yes.

I'm with you, Ian. The transfer looks great -- certainly the best it's looked so far.

[fatboyslim142 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close fatboyslim142]

On the bright side, if anyone is in search of a flawless quality MP3 of "Do It to Me", look no more...

https://www.amazon.com/Fantasma-dAmo.../dp/B009IG1614

Here it is on youtube https://youtu.be/0g6DZbfHGKQ

[fatboyslim142 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close fatboyslim142]

And just to be clear: Both of these releases look equally like steaming piles of shit. One just has the advantages of having good distribution, more realistic price point and the Italian dub.

This film was shot in English like Cannibal Holocaust so any other language is just a poor dub.

[enandalusiskhund An Andalusian Dog Find all posts View Profile Close enandalusiskhund]

Both the English and the Italian soundtracks are dubs and produced simultaineously. I just happen to prefer the Italian one. :thomason:

[Damin J. Toell Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Damin J. Toell]

This film was shot in English like Cannibal Holocaust so any other language is just a poor dub.

Every soundtrack of the film is necessarily a dub. That sure isn't Giovanni Lombardo Radice's voice on the English track, regardless of whether he spoke English on the set.