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HD Comparisons – Legend. This is an HD comparison between the theatrical and directors cut editions of Legend. Let the images load in your browser and then hover your mouse on and off the image to see the differences between each version of the film, the directors cut edition loads first, you must hover your mouse onto the image to see the theatrical edition and off again to see the directors cut.

The French edition of Silent Hill has inky black levels, much better disc compression with no visible artifacts ruining the presentation and skintones are less saturated, gone is the over the top orangey look that faces used to have, to me this is a huge improvement, i feel the inky black levels help improve detail, no more squinting at the screen trying to make things out, i believe this is how the film should look, others may consider this revisionism. I’m inclined to think this edition fixes many issues the older original releases had.

BD impressions of True Romance, i have also included some additional blu ray screencaps. True Romance features a star studded cast, Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette are the leads but you will no doubt recognize the likes of Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Brad Pitt, Gary Oldman and Samuel L. Jackson, others in the cast are Michael Rapaport, Val Kilmer, Chris Penn, Tom Sizemore, James Gandolfini, Bronson Pinchot, Anna Levine and Saul Rubinek, the film is directed by Tony Scott and features a memorable music score by Hans Zimmer.

Wild At Heart stars Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern and was directed by David Lynch, this is the UK edition of the film.

While listening to the movie whenever someone talks we get sound through all three front speakers instead of just the center channel, this happens on both the MGM dvd and blu ray editions, i have been informed that the USA dvd edition had a mild echo effect with dialogue at a much lower volume from the left and right speakers.

Tthis version still sounds very good to my ears.

Click the picture to see a detailed blu ray/dvd comparison.

HD Comparisons – Beauty And The Beast. If Walt Disney was alive in 1991 he would have been very proud of this film, the only animated film to date to receive a best picture Oscar nomination, it’s a fantastic film with some truly memorable songs.

HD Comparisons – Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life. I felt the image quality was good without ever being outstanding, i feel if they had made a brand new 4K scan from a pristine film negative and used a BD-50 disc then this would have been a superb release.

HD Comparisons – King Kong. (1933) The dvd edition of King Kong was zoomed in and the blu ray shows more of the image, some pops and speckles and hairs on the print have been fixed and i imagine Warner had someone doing scratch removal by hand.

An HD comparison between the standard dvd edition of Avatar and the blu ray edition, just hover your mouse over the images to see the difference between both versions. This Avatar movie comparison is intended to highlight the additional detail of blu ray.