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    Total Recall (Schwarzenegger) HDX Picture Quality

    Does anyone else have this and if so, what did you think of the picture quality? It seemed grainy and washed out with terrible black levels. Could this be a function of not having a good master source, or am I just being too picky?

    PS: I should also note that the HDX versions of both Rest Stop and Inglourious Basterds look GREAT, so I don't think it's my TV (1080p 39'' Vizio Smart TV) or Vudu's algorithms.
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    Re: Total Recall (Schwarzenegger) HDX Picture Quality

    Not sure if the source is borked or it was a bad encode. Someone from Vudu would have to confirm.

    The blu-ray itself is poor as well. I think it's a film that desperately needs a remaster, as the HD transfers have been crap.

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      Re: Total Recall (Schwarzenegger) HDX Picture Quality

      yeah, I am gonna go with the studio not doing a very good job on the HD transfer. There are many older movies that look absolutely breathtaking and there are some that look terrible. Total Recall is one of the films that looked like barf when it was released on Blu Ray and I am willing to bet that the studio simply used the same transfer. If anyone is to blame, it's the movie studio.

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        Re: Total Recall (Schwarzenegger) HDX Picture Quality

        Just an update to anyone that comes across this thread.

        There are two versions of the original TR on Blu. The first, which I was referring to in my post was the initial release in 2006 and had an absolute disaster of a transfer.

        However, over the weekend, I saw the "Mind-Bending Edition" at my local BB, so I decided to pick it up. Apparently, this version was released in 2012 and is a vast improvement over the initial release. I can confirm this. So anyone in the market for the blu, be sure to get the mind bending version.

        I'm guessing that for the UV release, the studio used the same source as the 2006 blu-ray transfer, instead of the much improved 2012 version.

        If Vudu has since received a new encode from the studio that is much improved, let me know.

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          Re: Total Recall (Schwarzenegger) HDX Picture Quality

          Originally posted by BlakkMajik3000 View Post
          Just an update to anyone that comes across this thread.

          There are two versions of the original TR on Blu. The first, which I was referring to in my post was the initial release in 2006 and had an absolute disaster of a transfer.

          However, over the weekend, I saw the "Mind-Bending Edition" at my local BB, so I decided to pick it up. Apparently, this version was released in 2012 and is a vast improvement over the initial release. I can confirm this. So anyone in the market for the blu, be sure to get the mind bending version.

          I'm guessing that for the UV release, the studio used the same source as the 2006 blu-ray transfer, instead of the much improved 2012 version.

          If Vudu has since received a new encode from the studio that is much improved, let me know.
          Just read this thread and was going to comment at that post about the BR quality.. I just took a quick look at the Vudu SD stream (as is one of the BS "SD Only" on the PC titles) vs. the Blu-ray (Mind-Bending Edition). While I can't compare it exactly due the huge resolution difference, I can say in a number of scenes that I sampled, there are notable differences in some around scene and skin tone color and the black levels in some were much higher, more like the comparatively washed out DVDs. Even the aspect ratio is different with the vudu stream having some a bit of each side of the image chopped off. So if the HD stream looks like the SD stream in terms of those aspects, it is unquestionably from a different master.

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