porco556
Jan 2003
Senior Member
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I guess one last Christmas present for all of us from Replica. Personally didn't bother with Gospel (eek), but Replica's last bunch of releases have been pretty damn good.
Well, the best thing to do is compare it to Replica's The Brothers Grimm, as this is a spitting image. 1.85 @ 3800kbit/sec (roughly).
Only thing I noticed about Brothers Grimm is that towards the end of the movie, the video started looking like complete crap (red scenes all the way through credits... Anyone else find that?). In this release, it looks pretty good straight from start to end.
But I always wonder, 3800kbit/sec with a 1.85 frame, HOW good could it have been? Relative bitrate ratio (1.85 --> 2.35), this is 2992kbit/sec with a 2.35, and guaranteed everyone would be screaming and complaining. Personally, I would have ditched the 377megs of deleted scenes for some more bits.
At the same time, I saw only a couple of places where I wished for more bitrate.
Image is soft and minimal artifacting (usual Replica job).
Video 8/10 - Usual score. Video didn't blow me away, but at the same time I wasn't disappointed. Typical soft/no artifacting encode is something I'm getting used to from Replica, and I don't mind it as much anymore. I still prefer sharp and untouched video.
DVD-R 8/10 - Usual movie only guy comment. Deleted scenes are 377meg. At least recode them like XPDVD does. Why keep them untouched and the main movie gets dicked.
CRT 27" 10/10 - I did this for fun. Looks stunning on my CRT. I always wonder why movies on TV at 320x200 (w/ cheapy 480i S-Video input) look so good. Colors and everything. And the low resolution far from takes away from the picture (most detail is present).
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