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Hows your picture quality?

posted 17 years ago by Trevor_Distance
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I just got the EC entertainment version and the picture quality is not great.
I wondered if there were better quality versions.

*It is not a good day if you are not looking good*

[–] KimberlyShaw 17 years ago

I've got the Blue Underground 2007 edition. There is a haziness to the image and a tinny quality to the sound. The BU discs in my collection are pretty good overall so I'm guessing the problem lies with the original source material.

"There's my buttercup!"

[–] orchidclub 17 years ago

The Blue Underground edition is actually the same DVD as the Anchor Bay edition from 2000. The picture quality was good for its time, but a new transfer is badly needed. It's grainy, pixelated, washed out, and sometimes blurry. I doubt this was part of the atmosphere that Fulci intended, though it does give the film a certain charm. However, I have seen much worse looking DVDs.

[–] polysicsarebest 17 years ago

You do realie the film is supposed to look like that, right?

[–] Trevor_Distance 17 years ago

No its a bad transfer.
I'm looking for a better version if there is one.

*It is not a good day if you are not looking good*

[–] ravenous_freak 16 years ago

The Anchor Bay or Blue Underground is probably the best transfer you're ever gonna find unless someone wants to pay all that money for a better transfer of a movie that has a minor cult following.

This is my fav Fulci flick and as much as i would love a new transfer i doubt we will ever get one.

I believe the DVD transfers are taken from the laserdisc transfers. A lot of those Anchor Bay discs were that way.

Damn, I spilled my Big Gulp!

[–] richwicz 16 years ago

All prints of the film that I've seen have had heavy grain.The Anchor Bay DVD actually had quite a nice transfer imo,especially in the crypt scenes towards the end of the film.

[–] gax001 16 years ago

the no shame dvd has a perfect transfer no grain at all its the best 1 so far i have the EC,Vipco(only dvd with a english audio commentary by Catriona MacColl )and No Shame dvds
"The R2 Italian -release has the best transfer (based on the reports), and a few interesting extra-features (with no English subtitles"

http://www.dvdcompare.net/comparisons/film.php?fid=2144