National Film Archive
Reviewed by dvdfreak
Last modified on Friday 20th March 2020, 12:20:39 AM
| | Label: National Film Archive (Czech Republic)
| Region: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 | RCE protection: No | Copyright protection system: None
| Disc type: DVD5 (the data occupy 3.92 GB)
| Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 1:20:53.06
| Video: PAL | Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 non-anamorphic |
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Bitrate (min / avg / max): 0.24 / 6.30 / 9.92 Mbps
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Audio: | Czech Dolby Digital 2.0 mono* / 224 kbps
| Subtitles: | English
| Menus available in: | Czech
| | Special features: |
- "Digital Restoration: 'Old Czech Legends'" (1:37)
- "Before and After Restoration" photogallery (10 pages)
- "Thank You Note" (2:00)
- 8-page booklet (in Czech)
| Notes: | Where to start... A title card preceding the feature claims that what we're about to see is what the moviegoers saw back in the day:
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But I find that statement problematic, because the severe instability / jitter that frequently plagues the picture makes the film very unpleasant to watch (the following is a JavaScript animation):
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And I don't believe ↓ these ↓ are an integral part of the movie that had to be preserved for future generations :-P, especially the splices between black frames:
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Overall, a very disappointing release, and there's not much hope for anything better, as nobody is going to restore the film again anytime soon... *difference between channels is -84.85 dB (0.01 %) |
Artus Films / Blu-ray
Reviewed by dvdfreak
Last modified on Friday 20th March 2020, 12:20:39 AM
| | Label: Artus Films (France)
| Region: A, B & C (?) | RCE protection: n/a | Copyright protection system: AACS
| Disc type: BD25 & DVD9 (the data occupy 21.54 & 4.81 GB)
| Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 1:24:09.02
| Video: MPEG-4 AVC, 1080p24 | Aspect ratio: 1.37:1 |
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Bitrate (min / avg / max): 0.00 / 23.32 / 40.90 Mbps
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Audio: | Czech LPCM 2.0 mono* / 1,536 kbps French** LPCM 2.0 mono* / 1,536 kbps
| Subtitles: | French
| Menus available in: | French
| | Special features: | Disc 1 (Blu-ray)- Short film "Loutky Jiřího Trnky" ("The Puppets of Jiří Trnka," 22:45, in Czech with French subtitles)
- Photogallery (2:18, 23 movie stills, silent)
(Unless noted otherwise, all extras are MPEG-4 AVC, 1080i50, LPCM 2.0 / 1,536 kbps.)
Disc 2 (DVD)
- 96-page booklet (in French)
| Notes: | Firstly, special thanks to LeoH, a regular @ the Zóna discussion board, for making this comparison possible! (c:And nooooow, to paraphrase a handy film title: " What Have You Done to Old Czech Legends?" :-O As if the botched restoration alone wasn't enough, to add insult to injury, Artus scrubbed the picture clean of every last bit*** of grain, the horrible banding that now sticks out like a sore thumb being the icing on this cake fart... I never thought I would be recommending a mediocre 2016 DVD over a 2019 Blu-ray, but there you have it - avoid the latter like the proverbial plague! Oh, I almost forgot about the difference in aspect ratio - is the Czech DVD squeezed, or is the Blu-ray stretched? Your guess is as good as mine, but given that the other NFA restorations are all 1.37:1, I'd say the AR is the only aspect (pun intended ;-)) of this release that Artus Films got right... |
To see the screenshots in glorious , click here. |
| | *difference between channels is -Inf. dB (0.00 %), resp. -88.82 dB (0.00 %)
**the original French dub being incomplete, some scenes are presented in Czech with French subtitles ***literally, bit as in 1/8 of a byte |
Artus Films
Reviewed by dvdfreak
Last modified on Friday 20th March 2020, 12:20:39 AM
| | Label: Artus Films (France)
| Region: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 | RCE protection: No | Copyright protection system: None
| Disc type: DVD9 (the data occupy 4.81 GB)
| Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 1:20:47.03
| Video: PAL | Aspect ratio: 1.37:1 anamorphic* |
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Bitrate (min / avg / max): 0.24 / 6.01 / 8.55 Mbps
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Audio: | Czech Dolby Digital 2.0 mono** / 192 kbps French*** Dolby Digital 2.0 mono** / 192 kbps
| Subtitles: | French
| Menus available in: | French
| | Special features: |
- Short film "Loutky Jiřího Trnky" ("The Puppets of Jiří Trnka," 22:45, in Czech with French subtitles)
- Photogallery (2:18, 23 movie stills)
*which means a loss of approx. 20 % of the already limited SD resolution! **difference between channels is -73.74 dB (0.02 %), resp. -74.43 dB (0.02 %) ***the original French dub being incomplete, some scenes are presented in Czech with French subtitles |
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