[cassius76]

Chapter 22. Timecode 1:22:29 Roy Scheider says "yes"

The image glitches and breaks up. Tried this on a panny bd35 and playstation 3, same problem. Both machine firmwares are up to date, disc is spotless.

Anyone else seen this or could verify if you have the same problem?

cheers in advance.

PS. I have emailed Warner too.

[mikemag]

Checked my copy, also on a BD35, same problem. The image seems to jump for an instant and then carries on.

[cassius76]

cheers. Will email WB again with findings...

[cassius76]

Just got a response off someone over at Home theater forum!


Originally Posted by Nelson Au


I checked out my blu ray of that sequence to which you refer. All I see is a slight jump in the image at the moment he says, "yes". It sort of looks like either a jump cut and some frames are missing, or the video tape it was sourced from had a slight glitch. I say video tape because the "jump" sort of looks like the image is also slightly tearing like a video image would. Just slightly, you really have to look for it to see it. But I don't see any image break-up.

So I checked the DVD too. The same jump appears at the same point. The jump looks the same as the blu ray.

Then I pulled out the old laserdisc from Image that came out about 1989. Guess what! The same jump appears at the same point on the laserdisc!

This tells me the 2010 blu ray disc was made from the same source as the laserdisc and DVD! Perhaps the original film elements always had that jump. But this little experiment does not explain why you see the image break-up.

What is interesting is, as I said in an earlier post, the Blu ray is a cleaned up image compared to the DVD. It's brighter and dust spots has been removed. So I don't know if the same source was used to master the blu ray release. That just tells me the jump is likely in the film.