Koch Media has really Koch'd up this time. They've released the public domain Dave Fleischer cartoon "Gulliver's Travels" on Blu-ray, and not only have they cropped the original 1.33:1 image to 16:9, it looks like they've lifted a standard-def master...and not a very good one either... for use as source material.
That's not all though, because in an apparent attempt to disguise the limitations of the source material, the image has been subjected to such a high degree of noise reduction that it's practically become abstract art. It's probably physically impossible to make a true high-def source look THIS bad. Take a gander at the screen grabs courtesy of DVDBeaver.
In fact, if you look at the bottom of the rope in the thirdmost image from the bottom of the page, you can see what looks like Composite video dot crawl. Oh dear...
Quite frankly, the BDA should clamp down on garbage like this being put out. At best, it's a shit disc sullying the ultimate AV format, and at worst, it's confusing consumers who actually expect High Definition when they buy Blu. My other fear is that unknowledgeable reviewers and buyers think the film looks like shit because it's old (if I had a penny for every time I'd heard that one). Cut it out, guys.
Wow, this looks as if it was upscaled with 2xSai, or some other emulator shit. Even my sister would probably this is hideous, and she can't really tell the difference between VHS and DVD.
I get the issue, and the need to make the point, but your chat sounds far too similar to your brother. Trying to copy each other? Either way, not good.
^ Don't look at me, look at the posting dates...
Wow some of those screen grabs were pretty horrendous. It's definitely not the best looking bluray I've seen but the biggest flaw for me is the 16:9 cropping, there's just no excuse.
fair dos :) - far too incapacitated to see that last night ;)
Oh my god, that's appalling.