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2021-12-06 03:11:21 UTC
The last episode of Mystery Science T3K I watched was Eegah (1962)
as it happened to be added as an extra to the Blu-ray of Eegah.
I think the Blu-ray picture by the Film Detective studio has been messed up
in a couple ways. It's supposed to be in the 1.66 format but it looks
like it's also been slightly stretched. Arch Hall's face is extra wide,
as all the other faces and the black bars on the side of the screen
don't look as wide as they should. The included MST3K episode in
standard definition also looks like it's been slightly narrowed,
meaning both pictures have been messed up. There's damage from
noise reduction, examples are when Eegah later in the movie passes
through a tree packed lot and when he's in the house, there is breaking up
of solid details into contrasting objects moving independently that
I've read is one of the results of "noise reduction". I did a casual
comparison of both the movie and the episode with the old Rhino DVD
that has the movie and the episode (something that Rhino did right
in providing both on some MST3K DVDs that Shout Factory never does).
I can see the picture details much better on the movie Blu-ray than the
Rhino DVD uncut movie, but that doesn't excuse the basic technology
violation of stretching the screen, or altering the movie with
video processing. Film Detective has a reputation of pummeling
their videos with noise reduction.
So I disagree with the positive reviews I've seen of the video quality
in Film Detective's Eegah (1962).
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Eegah-Blu-ray/255212/#Review
The episode brought some laughs. MST3K does cut all but the beginning
of a song I like called Valerie, at 24:59 into the movie:
as it happened to be added as an extra to the Blu-ray of Eegah.
I think the Blu-ray picture by the Film Detective studio has been messed up
in a couple ways. It's supposed to be in the 1.66 format but it looks
like it's also been slightly stretched. Arch Hall's face is extra wide,
as all the other faces and the black bars on the side of the screen
don't look as wide as they should. The included MST3K episode in
standard definition also looks like it's been slightly narrowed,
meaning both pictures have been messed up. There's damage from
noise reduction, examples are when Eegah later in the movie passes
through a tree packed lot and when he's in the house, there is breaking up
of solid details into contrasting objects moving independently that
I've read is one of the results of "noise reduction". I did a casual
comparison of both the movie and the episode with the old Rhino DVD
that has the movie and the episode (something that Rhino did right
in providing both on some MST3K DVDs that Shout Factory never does).
I can see the picture details much better on the movie Blu-ray than the
Rhino DVD uncut movie, but that doesn't excuse the basic technology
violation of stretching the screen, or altering the movie with
video processing. Film Detective has a reputation of pummeling
their videos with noise reduction.
So I disagree with the positive reviews I've seen of the video quality
in Film Detective's Eegah (1962).
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Eegah-Blu-ray/255212/#Review
The episode brought some laughs. MST3K does cut all but the beginning
of a song I like called Valerie, at 24:59 into the movie: