Welcome to the Invelos forums. Please read the forum rules before posting.

Read access to our public forums is open to everyone. To post messages, a free registration is required.

If you have an Invelos account, sign in to post.

    Invelos Forums->General: General Home Theater Discussion Page: 1  Previous   Next
HD: Armageddon would need to be re-mastered!
Author Message
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar ContributorNewEnglander
Registered: 11/13/2003
Registered: March 13, 2007
Reputation: High Rating
United States Posts: 1,911
Posted:
PM this userEmail this userView this user's DVD collectionDirect link to this postReply with quote
Quote:
Should Armageddon make it to Blu-ray, there may be even more work in store. Original materials were destroyed.

"Believe it or not, we have to remaster Armageddon,” he said. “The Armageddon [master] was burned in a fire apparently, so we’ve got to re-master the whole movie.”



Full Article
Signature banned: Reason out of date...
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorNexus the Sixth
Contributor since 2002
Registered: March 13, 2007
Reputation: High Rating
Sweden Posts: 3,197
Posted:
PM this userView this user's DVD collectionDirect link to this postReply with quote
Too bad the original print wasn't burned in the fire as well. 
First registered: February 15, 2002
 Last edited: by Nexus the Sixth
DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantfalcon2099
Member Since: Dec 4, 2002
Registered: May 29, 2007
Canada Posts: 189
Posted:
PM this userEmail this userView this user's DVD collectionDirect link to this postReply with quote
Be nice...  It wasn't all that bad.  It was kinda funny to see how different movies depicting very similar events usually get released pretty close together.


Armageddon (1/5/1999)
Deep Impact (2/1/2000)


Both have somewhat similar plots: rogue comet on collision course with the earth and will probably set of an ELE (Extinction Level Event) and destroy mankind.
Peter

Contribution Rules
Credit Lookup Tool
DVD Profiler Wiki
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorErik
It's a strange world.
Registered: March 13, 2007
Reputation: Great Rating
Norway Posts: 422
Posted:
PM this userVisit this user's homepageView this user's DVD collectionDirect link to this postReply with quote
Quoting pplchamp:
Quote:
Quote:
Should Armageddon make it to Blu-ray, there may be even more work in store. Original materials were destroyed.

"Believe it or not, we have to remaster Armageddon,” he said. “The Armageddon [master] was burned in a fire apparently, so we’ve got to re-master the whole movie.”

Why not just "borrow" the Criterion master like you did with The Rock?

Someone's got a thing for Michael Bay here today.

Make that two votes for burning the original print, what an epilepsy-inducing mess of a film...
Erik

"Has it ever occurred to you, man, that given the nature of all this new stuff, that, uh, instead of running around blaming me, that this whole thing might just be, not, you know, not just such a simple, but uh - you know?" -- The Dude, The Big Lebowski

DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributorsynnerman
Take me with you. Please.
Registered: March 13, 2007
United States Posts: 736
Posted:
PM this userDirect link to this postReply with quote
Criterion's master wasn't high-def, as the disc was non-anamorphic (one of their early DVD releases [Spine 40] and the last release of their laserdiscs).
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorErik
It's a strange world.
Registered: March 13, 2007
Reputation: Great Rating
Norway Posts: 422
Posted:
PM this userVisit this user's homepageView this user's DVD collectionDirect link to this postReply with quote
Quoting synner_man:
Quote:
Criterion's master wasn't high-def, as the disc was non-anamorphic (one of their early DVD releases [Spine 40] and the last release of their laserdiscs).

True, wasn't sure whether or not the DVD being non-anamorphic really mattered for a potential HD disc or not (haven't gotten "instructed" too much on this part of the process by some film-guru friends ).

Well, re-master it is then.  Perhaps Bay can re-cut the film while he's at it.  Even he admits the cutting is over-the-top insane on the commentary track...
Erik

"Has it ever occurred to you, man, that given the nature of all this new stuff, that, uh, instead of running around blaming me, that this whole thing might just be, not, you know, not just such a simple, but uh - you know?" -- The Dude, The Big Lebowski

DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorAce_of_Sevens
Registered: December 10, 2007
Reputation: High Rating
Posts: 3,004
Posted:
PM this userView this user's DVD collectionDirect link to this postReply with quote
Many DVD masters in recent years are done in high-def, then scaled down for DVD.  Hi-def in 1920x1080.  A non-anamoprhic transfer is 720x480 and a quarter of the vertical resolution is wasted on black bars.  A high-def transfer would have eight times the resolution.
    Invelos Forums->General: General Home Theater Discussion Page: 1  Previous   Next