Poor image quality of 1993 The Pelican Brief (film, Warner, Bluray)
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The movie is about 2 hours and 20 minutes. It is a John Grisham thriller and a monument to Julia Roberts. In fact the last statement is something about her "being too good to be true".
Was surprised at the poor image quality of the DVD. They even used both sides of the DVD. It still looked a lot like VHS quality.
Does anybody know what could cause a double sided DVD to have such poor image quality? It is almost like a VHS tape got re-mastered. It is by Warner Brothers.
I have seen higher image quality on movies that were compressed down to 1 or 2 GB. Using both sides of a DVD availed them to about 9 GB of data.
Perhaps I should ask on the video forum. That gets a couple visitors/day or so...
That was an early DVD when they were in a hurry to introduce new titles.
Rather than go through the effort of digitizing the actual film, in the beginning, they often just digitized the LaserDisc, which was a little bit better than VHS, if it was available. Criterion even did it.
I would more suspect that you got what is actually a forged copy, and from a poor quality source.
I own this movie and my copy's quality is every bit as good as my other DVDs.
BTW: I was a bit confused about your saying "they used both sides". The only DVDs I've seen that used both sides, put different content on each side. IE: Each side had the same movie, but in different aspect ratio, one was wide-screen letterboxed, the other pan-n-scan narrow picture.
You can spot these, as they have no labels. (The laser has to shine into the disk for the content to be read, so double-sided disks must have clear plastic on each side. All ID information was stamped in the center just outside the hub-hole).
A long time ago, I saw some CDs sold with the first half of a movie on one side, and the second on the other, and you had to flip the disk in your player, but I've never seen a DVD or Bluray like that.
Thanks....that explains everything. I was unable to figure out what would cause image quality to be slightly better than VHS...but well below DVD.
I'm not if I will ever need more than DVD quality. Unless 80" TVs someday become affordable.
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Originally Posted by karlsch
That was an early DVD when they were in a hurry to introduce new titles.
Rather than go through the effort of digitizing the actual film, in the beginning, they often just digitized the LaserDisc, which was a little bit better than VHS, if it was available. Criterion even did it.
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