yukichigai
Mar 2005
Video Tech Geek
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Just a short little review with my impressions:
Video - 9.9: Seriously, when you have to wonder if this is really a TC rather than a DVD rip then you're looking at a damn good TC. Video is crisp, colors are vibrant. No light/dark areas, no weird edges. The only reason I wouldn't vote this a 10 is because there's a "hair" at the very top of the screen, towards the middle, for a while. It's almost unnoticable, yet it's still there. But that's it. Seriously. That is the only problem with this video. I wouldn't be surprised if the DVD doesn't look any better than this.
Audio - 6: It's not that there's anything majorly wrong with the audio that you can identify, it's just that it sounds... off. Maybe a little wavery here and there, certainly a bit tinny at times. Mostly it sounds like the audio you'd get on a really old VHS tape. However, what kills it -- and yes, I will beat this into everyone's brains if I have to go door to door -- is the fact that the audio has been sped up. Yes, I understand that most of the world uses 25fps for their DVD video. Yes, I understand the best way to convert the video is to simply speed up a movie. However, speeding up a movie to match 25fps on a DivX release is completely unnecessary. The entire point of DivX/XviD releases is that they are to be played primarily on a computer, not a TV. The framerate they are at is irrelevant. Therefore, speeding up the audio in the process of converting the framerate is both unnecessary and destructive.
Movie - 6: Eh, it wasn't really what the sequel to Underworld should have been. It wasn't exactly bad in itself, but it failed where the first suceeded. Hopefully the next movie will be much better; y'know, get a kind of Blade - Blade II - Blade Trinity thing going here with the Underworld series.
Bottom Line: This is the release to get right now, unless Asteroids finds a better audio source or until a DVD screener hits.
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