Obrazy starého sveta [Pictures of the Old World] ◾︎ Dušan Hanák ◾︎ 1972

Slovak Film Institute

Reviewed by dvdfreak

Last modified on Wednesday 22nd April 2020, 08:17:55 PM

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Label: Slovak Film Institute (Slovakia)

Region: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8

RCE protection: No

Copyright protection system: None

Disc type: DVD5 (the data occupy 3.47 GB)

Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 1:04:16.10

Video: PAL

Aspect ratio: 1.29:1 non-anamorphic

Bitrate (min / avg / max): 0.24 / 6.00 / 7.49 Mbps

Audio:

Slovak Dolby Digital 2.0 mono* / 256 kbps

Subtitles:

Slovak, English, German, Russian, Italian, French & Spanish

Menus available in:

Slovak & English

Special features:

Short film "Prišiel k nám Old Shatterhand"
("Old Shatterhand Came to See Us," 12:00, in Slovak with optional English subtitles)
incl. press coverage (2 pages, in Slovak & English)
Dušan Hanák's bio (3 pages) & filmography (17, resp. 16 pages, in Slovak & English)
Filmmakers' profiles (in Slovak & English)
- Alojz Hanúsek, cameraman (4 pages)
- Martin Martinček, photographer (2 pages)
Conversation with the director (4 pages, in Slovak & English)
Press coverage (2, resp. 3 pages, in Slovak & English)
Posters for Dušan Hanák's feature films (7 pages)

Notes:

Comes in a foldout digipak; there's no booklet, but there are some liner notes (awards + Dušan Hanák's profile; 3 pages, in Slovak & English) on the sides of the digipak itself.

*difference between channels is -30.12 dB (3.12 %)

SFI / Reissue

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Last modified on Wednesday 22nd April 2020, 08:17:55 PM

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Label: Slovak Film Institute (Slovakia)

Region: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 8

RCE protection: No

Copyright protection system: None

Disc type: DVD9 (the data occupy 5.61 GB)

Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 1:04:15.06

Video: PAL

Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 non-anamorphic

Bitrate (min / avg / max): 0.16 / 5.50 / 7.06 Mbps

Audio:

Slovak Dolby Digital 2.0 mono* / 256 kbps

Subtitles:

Slovak, English, German, Russian, Italian, French, Spanish & Hebrew

Menus available in:

Slovak & English

Special features:

Short films (with optional English subtitles)
- "Artisti" ("Artists," 13:32, in Czech)
- "Učenie" ("Practice," 14:25, in Slovak)
- "Prišiel k nám Old Shatterhand"
  ("Old Shatterhand Came to See Us," 12:01, in Slovak)
- "Omša" ("The Mass," 11:10, in Slovak)
- "Deň radosti" ("The Day of Joy," 21:48, in Slovak)
Filmmakers' profiles (in Slovak & English)
- Dušan Hanák, director (20 pages)
- Alojz Hanúsek, cameraman (4 pages)
- Martin Martinček, photographer (3 pages)
Conversation with the director (4, resp. 5 pages, in Slovak & English)
Press coverage (2 pages, in Slovak & English)
Posters for Dušan Hanák's feature films (7 pages)

Notes:

Comes in a foldout digipak; there's no booklet, but there are some liner notes (awards + Dušan Hanák's profile; 3 pages, in Slovak & English) on the sides of the digipak itself.

*difference between channels is -56.59 dB (0.15 %)

STV 2 HD DVB

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Last modified on Wednesday 22nd April 2020, 08:17:55 PM

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Label: STV 2 HD DVB (Slovakia)

Region: n/a

RCE protection: n/a

Copyright protection system: n/a

Disc type: n/a

Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 1:04:15.00

Video: MPEG-4 AVC, 1080i50

Aspect ratio: 1.33:1

Bitrate (min / avg / max): 0.00 / 4.56 / 10.43 Mbps

Audio:

Slovak Dolby Digital 2.0 mono* / 192 kbps

Subtitles:

None

Menus available in:

None

Special features:

None

Notes:

This is a recording from STV 2 HD's digital satellite broadcast.
Its purpose here is to provide a kind of reference for the DVD releases reviewed above.

The screenshots should be taken with several pinches of salt - the Slovak Television's so-called HD broadcast with average bitrates no higher (oftentimes much lower!) than what their SD channels used to air at 10+ years ago is really a joke, but I tried to select the least compression-artefact-ridden frames to give you at least some idea of how good this could look on Blu-ray.

To see the screenshots in glorious