Anyone else think the Two Towers DVD looks washed out?

[Dputiger]

I have TTT Extended Edition on DVD--and I think it looks washed out. I've tried different TV's, tried fiddling with colors, etc. Does anyone else think so?

There's nothing else wrong with the image. Everything looks good. Colors even look fine for what they are. It simply looks....faded. As if saturation was turned down.

[Rand Dusing]

Maybe its your DVD players settings.

[jmichna]

We've got LOTR: TTT Extended version. The colors look fine on two different DVD players (Toshiba and Magnavox brands).

[Kc2iLq]

I just watched LORT: TTT on my HTPC and all went well. The colors were fine and it wasn't washed out at all.

-Kc2iLq

[VHockey86]

I've only watched it on my xbox so far, but it looked fine

[Dputiger]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. It also looks washed-out to me on my personal system. Maybe I'll try tossing it in the PS/2. I will say this--its not the DVD.

I downloaded several versions of the screener (yes I am a bad person-but I knew I was buying the DVD version @ Christmas regardless) and I thought they all looked the same.

So I'm very not sure what I'm seeing. Everything is crystal-clear, so I don't think its DVD-error. The sound, etc, is perfect. Its just that the saturation looks lower. Reds look more muted, etc. But then I just read in a review that this was a deliberate effect....so now I'm just confused.

[VHockey86]

"its not the DVD."

Ya well theres your problem. You cant expect to get dvd quality from a bootleg.

Sometimes filters and bad encoding are the results of this, but especially recently the MPAA has made a bigger effort to make screening versions of movies to convey the plot and movie without providing a perfect means for people to make copies etc

[Dputiger]

I think you mis-understood me. I have the DVD. I also have bootlegs that I downloaded to check them. The only bootlegs I would ever d/l anyway are actual screeners that're DVD rips, not screen-shot hand-cam versions. And since I'm an utter snob, I only d/l very high quality versions.

I rip my DVD's to AVI or MPEG no matter what (even the ones I legitimately own) and I rip at extremely high encoding rates. My DVD rip of LOTR is 4.4 gig for the whole movie--2.2 gig per disc.

[phenious]

you mean you use tons of compression cause a movie that long should be either 8GB or its highly compressed. If you used a high bitrate it would be near 6~8GB still.

-: phenious :-

[UpYourz]

It looked good on my PS2