I've just watched "Cum In My Ass, Not In My Mouth!". The movie itself is very good, I'd loved to see these czech chicks getting fucked really hard.
What I complain about is the DVD itself. It's a good thing to put as much bonus footage as possible on the disc, but I have to say this is way too much. The main film in the director's cut is 162 min. long. Then we have 7 min. Behind-The-Scenes, 23 min. Jackie Moore bonus scene and 25 Trailers of 32 min. length. Total ca. 225 min. That is too much for a DVD-9 without losing picture quality.
And it's obvious on the DVD that you lose picture quality. There are a lot of artifacts in every scene, especially in the bonus scene with Jackie Moore. When she gets a hard fucking in doggie position from Erik all you see are artifacts. For me this is disturbing.
So my suggestion is: only a few trailers or no bonus scene. IMHO it's way better to have 20 or 30 min. less of footage, but good picture quality without artifacts. Another possibility is to put the extras on a second disc.
camaban is right. I have also noticed this drop in quality with the Sportfucking dvd, and with other RLD titles. Major artifact and picture quality issues with a lot of their titles as of late. They used to have solid quality discs. Now it's a crap shoot, you never know what you're going to get. I'd take less foootage for better picture quality anyday. Isn't the whole point of making dvd's so that we have better quality picture than vhs? right now that isn't the case with a lot of RLD's titles. There are at least two discs of theirs that I didn't purchase because of bad picture quality.
I first noticed poor picture quality in RLD releases in "Young Ripe Mellons #1", unfortunately when there is lots of movement in the scene, like jiggling breasts, I could distinctly see pixelation. This was a big disapointment as the quality of the girls was quite good and otherwise the lighting, direction, settings, performances, etc., were top-notch.
I have since noticed this in just about every RLD release that I have watched. I know that RLD's strategy is to have a lot of releases on the market at a low cost, but if they have to cut any corners, I wish they would reduce the extras and not compromise the picture quality. I don't know all of the technical details, but I would think that a tradeoff could be made between paying for mastering of less material per DVD and having a better job done with the compression, etc. for the material that is included.
Also, I realize that trailers are important for promotion, advertising, etc., but this really should be the first thing to consider if something has to be left off of the disk. It seems as if there were over 20 on the last RLD that I saw. Try 5-10, or maybe try using shorter trailers?
I'm still a big fan of RLD, but the image quality issue is beginning to take up more of my consideration of whether or not to view their releases.
btw you have gotta remember Interlaced pictures are more likely to have a massive drop in picture quality as the bit rate decreases! Progessive you don't notice it anywhere near as much!
Unfortunately I have also notice some problems with pixelation in some recent RLD movies.
I agree with many here that I would rather not have some many trailers (I will buy the DVD shown in the trailer anyway) and rather have better picture quality and more BTS.
We always want more & more in our DVDs like filling them up to capacity with Behind The Scenes, Bonus Footage, Extended Director's Cut, etc.
Unfortunately when you go over the ideal 2 hour threshold on a DVD-9, something has to give & that something is the overall video/audio quality. I also noticed minor pixelation problems with some of the newer DVDs from Red Light & other studios.
Hopefully the studios can work out these slight technical problems with their discs.
IMO I'd rather fill the disc up on a porn DVD because when watching porn, gonzo the action is so close up that I don't mind if there using EP mode or whatever, if were talking about a basketball game on a DVD then I need the high quality.
It doesn't hurt to have trailers and bonus footage unless you've seen them 20 times.
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Darth-Morpheous Deactivated User
1701 Posts 3/02
Posted - Nov 4 2003 : 5:35PM
I like the extra footage but I think they should loose the trailers. How about RLD going th two disc special edition routes that Evolution has gone? That would be great! The best of both worlds.
I've already mentioned this a couple of times in the forum before so excuse me for beating a dead horse ... but two discs does not necessarily equal superior image quality. A recent two disc release from a company I won't name again (I really am not trying to trash them) had one of the worst mastering jobs I have seen recently, with extreme jagged edges, pixelation, the works.
What is so frustrating for me about RLD's problems in this regard is that otherwise the company's product is generally outstanding, good female and male talent, camera work by people with a clue, professional lighting, makeup, hair, etc.
I agree that consumers have clamored for extras and that we may have gotten what we asked for at the expense of quality. It may be time to make another adjustment; cut down on the extras, but perhaps also on the length of the primary action as well, maybe down to two hours from 140 minutes. Just a suggestion. In this case I would be willing to accept less material for better image quality.
Not true. The ideal threshold for DVD-5 is 2 hours. A properly encoded DVD-9 will hold nearly double that with no problem. I think that the encoders just need to vary the compression ratios between the movie and the extras. There's no reason when there can't be more compression on trailers and less on the movie.
in my experience the video quality is fine in the mayority of Red Light dvds. But lately the problems with the video quality are found mostly in dvds from the ex-Anabolic guys. Sport Fucking, Cum In My Ass Not In My Mouth, all Erik's, all Mike John videos have this problem (If you see the dvds from John Dough released by Devil's Film, you'll find the same crappy video quality) ....everytime the camera makes a fast movement or gets too close to the action the artifacts are noticeable. ...Dion needs to talk with the ex-Anabolic guys to fix what ever they are doing wrong. ..I just saw LUSTY LEGS from Tony Ribas and the video quality is quite good. btw, Toni's dvd has lots of extras so I don't think this is the problem.
The problem has been fixed. I and mike john have changed dvd authorers, the guys we were with were not getting the job done. Sportfucking 2 will be from the new authorer, and should have no problems. I have also taken out all trailers from my dvd's. If it ain't strokable it's not worth putting on a dvd. Erik Everhard
Wally, you're absolutely right. I never saw a greater problem with artifacts on a RLD DVD from Vince, Robbie Fischer or David Lugar, only on Erik's (never saw a Mike John Video since his change to RLD).
But the movie length from Vince, Robbie, ... is 140 min., then you have 20-30 min. extra footage and 30 min. of trailers. This is half an hour less than on the DVDs from the ex-Anabolic guys, so I think it has to do with the movie length in total. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think they must reduce the bitrate to get all on one DVD side, and then you get the pixelation.
Thanks Erik for answering and fixing the problem. I will definitely check out Sport Fucking 2, the cover on the RLD Homepage looks fucking hot.
Also thanks for taken out the trailers. I think the majority didn't need it (the last 5 RLD DVDs I've purchased have the exact same 25 trailers on it, that makes no sense to me).
If there were any problems on any disks its because we "X anabolic guys" make longer movies with full length bonus scenes. we were trying to give you more.The trailers were the problem,they are gone.
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*Mutt* Deactivated User
752 Posts 8/03
Posted - Nov 5 2003 : 9:41PM
if anybody's looking to for a talented editor and a DVD authorer I have a friend who is very good, the DVD authoring is a new skill for him but he picks up things fast and I bet he's better already than 90% of what's out there now.