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Thread started 04/28/09 5:17pm

sro100

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Purple Rain on Blu-ray?

On Amazon I see this is available for $12.99. I already own the 2-disc DVD. Is the blu-ray a significant leap up in quality in terms of video and audio compared to the DVD? BTW, does the blu-ray audio sound better than the CD also?

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Reply #1 posted 04/28/09 5:23pm

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It looks better than the DVD, but not much. It's not a great transfer :\
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Reply #2 posted 04/28/09 8:51pm

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bleutuna said:

It looks better than the DVD, but not much. It's not a great transfer :\



Well the film is old, and who knows who has a real master to copy from or if that's what either DVD was digitized from. They should clean up the negative, and process it. Lucas did that with the early Star Wars films. They were SO faded, they were almost gone. They quickly put them through the paces, and restored all 3 movies (before he tinkered with them), and it was a spectacular enhancement. Too bad they don't do this for older movies in general before putting them on DVD.
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Reply #3 posted 04/28/09 10:15pm

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It's funny because my brother had that dvd in hand today smile
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Reply #4 posted 04/29/09 7:02pm

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Funny thing is that there's a Purple Rain Blu-Ray that someone is selling new on Amazon for $80, why $80?
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Reply #5 posted 04/29/09 7:05pm

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ernestsewell said:

bleutuna said:

It looks better than the DVD, but not much. It's not a great transfer :\



Well the film is old, and who knows who has a real master to copy from or if that's what either DVD was digitized from. They should clean up the negative, and process it. Lucas did that with the early Star Wars films. They were SO faded, they were almost gone. They quickly put them through the paces, and restored all 3 movies (before he tinkered with them), and it was a spectacular enhancement. Too bad they don't do this for older movies in general before putting them on DVD.



they dopnt do this so they can keep selling more copies that yet are not quite perfection with each reissue and enhancement shrug

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Reply #6 posted 04/29/09 7:32pm

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I have it on BLU-RAY and it really does look amazing.. way better then the 25th 2 DVD set.

That was the 1st blu-ray I bought..just like the 1st dvd I ever bought 8 YEARS AGO!!
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Reply #7 posted 04/29/09 10:27pm

ernestsewell

isthisdadawn said:

That was the 1st blu-ray I bought..just like the 1st dvd I ever bought 8 YEARS AGO!!


Ditto, but I bought mine in about 1998 or 1999 I think.
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