Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: BD of Gulliver's Travels is Terrible

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Posted by Mitchell Dvoskin (Member # 751) on 03-17-2010, 05:33 PM:

Gulliver's Travels is in Public Domain, so anyone can dup it and release it. Unfortunately, the Blu-Ray release of this 1939 classic from KOCH Vison sucks. First, they zoomed the picture in to fill the 16:9 aspect ratio, cutting off the top and bottom of the picture. Then, the transfer sucked. It looked like a SD dvd, but since the disk in BD format, you can't upconvert it. The "extras" looked VHS quality.

Posted by Claude S. Ayakawa (Member # 1401) on 03-17-2010, 05:52 PM:

Mitchell,

Before I got my HDTV and Blu-Ray, I thought watching regular DVDs on them was going to suck but due to the fact the Bd player can upconvert DVDs, I have been very pleased with the almost HD picture quality.

-Claudre

Posted by Mitchell Dvoskin (Member # 751) on 03-17-2010, 06:11 PM:

Claude, that is not the problem. The problem is that the BD disc was poorly mastered, and at SD resolution. Since the disc is a BD disc, there is nothing to upconvert. If the disc was an actual DVD, it would probably have looked better, since the player would have upconverted it.