Criterion is upgrading its old release of
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putrescent_stench — 9 years ago(April 20, 2016 10:44 PM)
Any idea whether the audio quality will be any better on the Criterion edition? The first time I tried to watch this I gave up, mainly because I could barely hear the audio and the visual quality wasn't great. It would be nice to have a clearer version.
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hobnob53 — 9 years ago(April 21, 2016 09:52 AM)
Th Criterion link seems to indicate the soundtrack will be improved on the BD at least.
Sound has always been an issue with this film down the years, given that it wasn't made by a major studio but by a low-budget industrial outfit where quality and equipment were normally a little dodgy. Most of the soundtrack was either looped in post-production or recorded live in natural settings, where sound is necessarily less controlled. -
putrescent_stench — 9 years ago(April 21, 2016 02:34 PM)
Interesting. I wonder why it will be improved on the Blu Ray and not on the DVD? I'm not too familiar with the Blu Ray format. Is there any compatibility with a DVD drive or do you need a specific Blu Ray drive to play? If so, I'll probably have to skip as I am not going to buy a whole system just to play this.
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hobnob53 — 9 years ago(April 21, 2016 11:48 PM)
Putting more effort into a Blu-ray disc, especially on the sound, is quite common. Why, I have no idea. Quite frankly, I'm generally satisfied with standard DVDs and have no intention of jettisoning my entire library of DVDs just for a slightly sharper picture and slightly improved sound. In fact, many feel that the more a picture is "improved" the more flaws show up too much detail allows problems that were largely masked in the original film to become glaringly apparentthe only remedy for which is yet more digital remastering to remove once-invisible flaws.
I do own some Blu-rays, mainly either very favorite titles or films not available in any other format. But mostly I get only DVDs. I don't object to the Blu-ray medium but ultimately it's generally not worth the trouble or greater expense, in my opinion. Many feel differently.
As to compatibility, you can play standard DVDs on a Blu-ray player, but you can't play Blu's on a DVD player: you do need a Blu-a player to do that.
The best purchase one could make is a mult-region (or Region-free or Region 0) Blu-ray player. This allows you to play almost any DVD or Blu-ray disc from anywhere in the world. The cost is little more than that of a standard Blu-ray player (i.e., one designed to play only discs coded to your part of the world in North America, Region A Blu-ray and Region 1 DVD). It just gives you more versatility in titles and formats. I own a lot of Region 2 (western Europe) DVDs that can't play in a Region 1 DVD player but will in a multi-region one. A multi-region Blu-ray adds that format to your range of choices. -
Trax-3 — 9 years ago(August 04, 2016 09:12 PM)
In fact, many feel that the more a picture is "improved" the more flaws show up too much detail allows problems that were largely masked in the original film to become glaringly apparentthe only remedy for which is yet more digital remastering to remove once-invisible flaws.
This really makes no sense. Even a print from internegative still resolves comfortably more than a DVD. A print from o-neg (as was common back in the day) resolves as much as a blu-ray and probably more.
For example - the o-neg print of Casablanca that played at the Eastman House's Nitrate Picture Show last year had essentially same detail as the bluray according to someone who had the good fortune to see it.
Applying that to the print of Casablanca that I viewed, I can say at first I was struck how similar the level of image detail in the print was compared to the 70th anniversary blu ray release of the film.
http://pandoramsbox.tumblr.com/post/119225953549/does-a-nitrate-print-make-that-much-of-a -
kem71 — 9 years ago(April 21, 2016 07:52 AM)
One bad thing about this new Criterion version is that it will only have the theatrical cut,and not the director's cut. The extra 5+ minutes from the director's cut WILL be included as deleted/extended scenes in the new Blu-ray/dvd. It still would have nice if BOTH versions were included via seamless branching though.
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Satan2016 — 9 years ago(July 18, 2016 08:01 PM)
Review and screenshots:
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Carnival-of-Souls-Blu-ray/53725/#Review
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benGsboat — 9 years ago(September 24, 2016 07:34 PM)
Just watched it tonight (my library recently got it) and can't get over how fantastic it looks in HD. It's not even a "This looks great for a low budget 60s movie" thingit looks as good as a restored studio film. Sounds pretty awesome too.
This being one of my favorites, I'm definitely gonna send an email to Criterion about the great job they did with it.
Now on to the bonus features