Showing posts with label La notte (1961). Show all posts
Showing posts with label La notte (1961). Show all posts

Tuesday, 29 December 2020

La notte (1961)

The Fox Lorber DVD sounds MUCH clearer than any later edition. It has the occasional tick and pop but is very clean overall. It's sourced from a PAL master and has PAL speedup, which as usual I've removed from the images and comparison clip below.

The audio track on the Masters of Cinema DVD is horrible due to extreme noise reduction. The same track was used for the MoC blu-ray with some minor EQ changes, where it's still pitched 0.7 semitones too high (which I haven't corrected for the images below).

The Criterion blu-ray, although better than the MoC, is still appallingly muffled:




Friday, 9 September 2016

La notte (1961)

Eureka/Masters of Cinema usually refrain from making any adjustments to the video on masters they receive (as they seem to have done in this case, as the film retains a green tint), but this can't be said about the audio: a very strong dose of noise reduction has been applied. The Criterion track is much better.