yukichigai
Mar 2005
Video Tech Geek
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Going to be nuked for no IVTC, and probably for cramming 2+ hours onto one CD as well. Video is encoded at 29.97 fps, and it contains duplicate frames. No excuse for that in an XviD release.
Video - 4: Everything is blue. Really blue. Within that the color is at least bright; however, the flicker is off the charts on this one, reminescent of the old-school macrovision protection you find on retail VHS movies. Now with just those issues it wouldn't be too bad even then since you can still see what's going on, except for the massive crop on the top of the screen. It looks all fine and good during the title sequence, but during most of the opening scene everybody's head is cut off. When Dudley is harassing Harry, for example, you can only see to the middle of his nose during the first few shots. Basically, they traded one horrid crop for another. Add in the jerkiness from the dupe frames and this is barely better than the release it's supposedly propering. (Though you can at least mostly tell what's going on)
Audio - 7: Your basic mono audio. Lacks the hum that the previous release had, but it's basically exchanged it for some annoying reverb. It does have more bass, but this sometimes is too much, distorting the audio when things get too loud. You can understand what everyone's saying and hear all the music though, so it does the job.
Movie - ?: I didn't feel like sitting through 2 hours of student wizards missing the top halves of their heads.
Bottom Line: A step in the right direction, but the video source is just too crappy to be watchable, at least for a movie like this. Wait for another release; there is a better video source floating around out there, so it shouldn't be TOO long before someone syncs some audio to it.
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