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astroknight  Questionable Moderator  Tastes so good... 4187 Posts 11/99 |  Posted - Jul 24 2005 : 1:14PMI just started checking out Lover's Lane , which is once again shot in widescreen HD. The movie starts, and once again Wicked has gone for a non-anamorphic transfer! From the hype around this one I thought this was to be one of their major releases, a release that makes everybody go "WOW!". Instead, my first reaction is "Gee, if Digital Playground did this they would have cared enough to give it the anamorphic transfer it deserves.". With Brad Armstrong, Jonathan Morgan, Michael Raven, and now David Stanley making some top notch features it's too bad that Wicked doesn't care enough about the movies they make to give them the best possible appearance. "Vegetarianism for me is about saying ‘yes’ to things - even meat." - Coupling  [Link] |
| Kperv The Cuddler *struck (She slipped) 1818 Posts 1/04 | Posted - Jul 24 2005 : 1:46PM Apart from some more bits taken up on the DVD, surely it doesn't cost anything extra to do an anamorphic transfer. I think the only anamorphic Wicked release I've got is Space Nuts, and that's almost completely ruined by extreme colour shifting. I love their movies, but it seems like they just can't get the damn transfers right.  [Link] |
| astroknight Questionable Moderator Tastes so good... 4187 Posts 11/99 | Posted - Jul 24 2005 : 2:25PM "Vegetarianism for me is about saying ‘yes’ to things - even meat." - Coupling [Link] |
| Mr. PB Member 152 Posts 7/05 | Posted - Jul 24 2005 : 3:45PM [Link] |
| MASAMUNE Senior Member 1452 Posts 12/04 | Posted - Jul 24 2005 : 5:35PM [Link] |
| Flash Golden Age Classic 11018 Posts 5/01 | Posted - Jul 24 2005 : 6:09PM Anamorphic means that the black bars you see on a standard (1.33:1) screen for a widescreen film are created by the player. If watched on a widescreen television (1.78:1) set the black bars are reduced in size as the actual picture doesn't include them. Non-anamorphic means that the black bars are part of the picture and never go away. It also means that part of the pixel range given to the picture is allocated by the black bars meaning the picture isn't as good as an anamorphic release. [Link] |
| Mr. PB Member 152 Posts 7/05 | Posted - Jul 24 2005 : 8:35PM http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Articles/16x9Enhancement/16x9Enhancement.asp [Link] |
| MASAMUNE Senior Member 1452 Posts 12/04 | Posted - Jul 24 2005 : 11:05PM [Link] |
| Flash Golden Age Classic 11018 Posts 5/01 | Posted - Jul 24 2005 : 11:15PM [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Jul 24 2005 : 11:22PM On DVD cases, it will usually say something like "enhanced for widrecreen TV's". [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Jul 24 2005 : 11:26PM Most of the companies working on adult DVD's are only working on adult DVD's and have never done an anamorphic DVD. I can understand how a company wouldn't want to be the project that the author uses to learn to do something. I don't necessarily agree with it, but I can understand it. [Link] |
| Flash Golden Age Classic 11018 Posts 5/01 | Posted - Jul 24 2005 : 11:28PM [Link] |
| astroknight Questionable Moderator Tastes so good... 4187 Posts 11/99 | Posted - Jul 25 2005 : 12:11AM Space Nuts and Euphoria were both anamorphic, and I think there was one other but I'm not sure. I could kind of understand it if this one of Wicked's first widescreen projects, but the majority of what I'm seeing from Brad Armstrong and especially Michael Raven seem to be shot in the widescreen format. They also seemed to be taking their time making sure they got everything just as they wanted for Lovers Lane , and the non-anamorphic format cheapened the entire movie for me. If you're going to be an "industry leader", then lead the friggin' industry. "Vegetarianism for me is about saying ‘yes’ to things - even meat." - Coupling [Link] |
| TheLoneGunman Member 400 Posts 10/03 | Posted - Jul 25 2005 : 11:22AM I felt the same way as Astro...why shoot something in HD, if you're not going to anamorphically enhance the disc you release? It's a shame, because this was the best movie to come out from Wicked in a long, long time. Possibly this year's best feature (depending on the quality of those "big" releases that will be coming in the next few months). [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Jul 26 2005 : 1:29PM I'm not disagreeing with your point that they should have done Lover's Lane in anamorphic widescreen. But I don't agree that you can used those two titles as examples where they have done a good job doing widescreen. [Link] |
| Flash Golden Age Classic 11018 Posts 5/01 | Posted - Jul 27 2005 : 1:10AM [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Jul 27 2005 : 7:58PM My point is that they are currently 0 for 2 (qualitywise) when they have released anamorphic widescreen. Failing twice is not a good justification for trying a third time. [Link] |
| TheLoneGunman Member 400 Posts 10/03 | Posted - Jul 27 2005 : 8:22PM |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Jul 28 2005 : 12:55AM My point was that they did a shitty job with both of those anamorphic widescreen titles. So you can't use those first two titles as an example of the fact that they are capable of doing a good anamorphic widescreen title. I agree that, in a perfect world, all widescreen titles should be anamorphic. But if a company proves themselves to be incompetent at making anamorphic discs, as Wicked (or at least the company that Wicked has hired) has done so far, I'd rather see them do non-anamporphic until they get their shit together and hire someone who's competent. As far as I'm concerned, a well done non-anamorphic disc is better than a poorly done anamorphic one. So far all Wicked has put out in anamorphic are two crappy DVD's. [Link] |
| astroknight Questionable Moderator Tastes so good... 4187 Posts 11/99 | Posted - Jul 28 2005 : 8:56AM "Vegetarianism for me is about saying ‘yes’ to things - even meat." - Coupling [Link] |
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