Transformers: The Movie (Reconstructed) in September
26-07-2005 18:42 | 7290 views | Dave Foster | Show Backlinks
Metrodome have announced the UK DVD release of Transformers: The Movie (Reconstructed) for 5th September 2005 priced at £15.99. Transformers The Movie, the smash-hit film based on the biggest toy and animated TV series phenomenon of the 1980s, is coming to DVD in an eye-dazzling, fully restored version packed with an arsenal of exclusive extra features courtesy of Metrodome. Transformers: The Movie (Reconstructed) arrives boasting a brand new transfer from the original film negative that has exposed, for the first time, the complete picture image drawn by the film's animators. This means more Megatron, more Starscream and more Optimus Prime than has ever been seen before! Add to that an ear-pounding Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound option and you have the ultimate Transformers DVD experience.
To create the remarkable restoration of the original film image for this exclusive DVD release, Metrodome has gone back to the original 35 mm (1.33:1 ratio) full frame negative and placed it within a widescreen format of 16:9 by creating an anamorphic transfer that respects the film's full screen format. The result is a side-curtained 1.33:1 image within a 1.78:1 ratio that fully preserves the entire field of potential viewable negative and presents the complete image with the maximum amount of visual detail possible.
Features include:
For more on the release and to look at comparison clips of before and after the restoration process visit the official DVD website at: www.transformersdvd.com. Register on the message boards and you will obtain access to some great free downloads.
To create the remarkable restoration of the original film image for this exclusive DVD release, Metrodome has gone back to the original 35 mm (1.33:1 ratio) full frame negative and placed it within a widescreen format of 16:9 by creating an anamorphic transfer that respects the film's full screen format. The result is a side-curtained 1.33:1 image within a 1.78:1 ratio that fully preserves the entire field of potential viewable negative and presents the complete image with the maximum amount of visual detail possible.
Features include:
- Alternate US/UK Version footage
- Cinex colour and exposure check test footage
- Final Titles check test footage
- US theatrical trailer and TV spots
- Japanese trailer
- Optional Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
- Autobot and Decepticon Main Menus
- Character Biographies
- "Reconstructed" Collector's Booklet
- Episode One of the Takara Transformers "Headmasters" TV series
- Movie Script (DVD ROM content)
For more on the release and to look at comparison clips of before and after the restoration process visit the official DVD website at: www.transformersdvd.com. Register on the message boards and you will obtain access to some great free downloads.
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FUzzY BeaR
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Also, why have they placed the film within a widescreen format? From what I can see on their site, there is more image on the TOP and BOTTOM of the screen now. So wouldn't it have made more sense to present it in a fullscreen format so that there were less lines of resolution lost at the sides of the image to the side-curtains?:confused:
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I think.
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I will be a little annoyed if this is in the weird boxed format their screen caps are shown in. It is just stupid and horrible to watch for people without widescreen TVs, and even for those with widescreen TVs it just looks like a normal 4:3 picture when zoomed in.
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Having said that the new version is shown as being one second shorter, so I don't know.
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Presumably this is so they can market it as 'For the first time in widescreen!' What a stupid marketing gimmick :rolleyes:
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Transformers: The Movie (Reconstructed) arrives boasting a brand new transfer from the original film negative that has exposed, for the first time, the complete picture image drawn by the film's animators
This is the main reason to use Anamorphic transfer. So that whether you've got a WS or FS television, you'll see the video/picture in the correct aspect ratio (not stretched or zoomed etc). The actual video is encoded to different dimensions, but given a flag so the player knows how it should display the picture on a WS or FS telly.
Given that the original negative is fullscreen, there's not really a lot that can be done about it, but atleast widescreen television owners are able to see everything in correct proportions, as can fullscreen TV owners.
A case where owning a fullscreen telly is an advantage, somewhat -- given the same or similar viewable screen dimensions ;)
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But fear not - this time it's subtitled! I guess they did it as a preview for their upcoming DVD box release.
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