This Month's Haul: December

[Korly]

So NO ONE got Dark Knight? Didn't it come out 2 days ago?

[YellerDog]

Only to it's parents. It's friends had known for YEARS.

[kingoffighters]

it comes out next week

[Korly]

That explains it. I've been seeing non stop commercials for it for the last 2 weeks, so I got confused.

[Korly]

For those of you with experience in these matters, does it make sense for me to just order it from Amazon? Will it come on the release day, or will I get it faster by going to Best Buy?

[YellerDog]

Best Buy is going to be the WTG on this. It'll equal the online price, plus you might get a snowglobe or rubik's cube?

[Shin Johnpv]

it comes out next week

Plus it would appear that the transfer was lame as hell, with EE and DNR all over the fucking place, plus it looks like some scenes had digital noise added to them. I was pretty dead set on buying it but now there's a good chance I just might not.

[Korly]

Plus it would appear that the transfer was lame as hell, with EE and DNR all over the fucking place, plus it looks like some scenes had digital noise added to them.

huh?

[Razor Ramon]

Wow ... If I was B-Ri I would crawl under a rock now.

You love following animegirl around. I find it disturbing.

[Shin Johnpv]

EE is edge enhancement, it usually ends up creating an almost halo or glow effect around edges, which the 35mm shots on TDK are now riddled with. DNR is digital noise reduction, which tries to take the grain out of films but usually ends up just taking out the detail that makes HD films looks so good, thus killing the sharpness and softening the film. Digital Noise is adding in random pixels of different colors to try and simulate the effects of grain. Add in some of this stuff to Nolan's typical soft focus style and you end up with a somewhat mushy image.

If you want to see some of this for yourself then head over to AVS forums to this thread.
He's come some good examples of the EE, and DNR going on. It would seem all the Imax scenes look much better than the 35mm scenes, which seem to have EE and DNR out the ass, plus to me the 35mm scenes look like they suffer from a much lower bit rate than the Imax ones.

It sucks, I'm still torn over if I'm going to buy it or not. While I really like TDK, and I want to see the bonus features, the transfer and handling of the image of such a High profile flick is pretty shitty, and there's ways of watching the movie with out having to buy it and support WB's actions with this.