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Author Topic: BD of Gulliver's Travels is Terrible Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 03-17-2010 05:33 PM                     Gulliver's Travels is in Public Domain, so anyone can dup it and release it. Unfortunately, the Blu-Ray release of this 1939 classic from KOCH Vison sucks. First, they zoomed the picture in to fill the 16:9 aspect ratio, cutting off the top and bottom of the picture. Then, the transfer sucked. It looked like a SD dvd, but since the disk in BD format, you can't upconvert it. The "extras" looked VHS quality.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 03-17-2010 05:52 PM                        Mitchell, Before I got my HDTV and Blu-Ray, I thought watching regular DVDs on them was going to suck but due to the fact the Bd player can upconvert DVDs, I have been very pleased with the almost HD picture quality. -Claudre  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 03-17-2010 06:11 PM                     Claude, that is not the problem. The problem is that the BD disc was poorly mastered, and at SD resolution. Since the disc is a BD disc, there is nothing to upconvert. If the disc was an actual DVD, it would probably have looked better, since the player would have upconverted it.  |  IP: Logged

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