Why are so many Blu-rays all GRAINY???

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The long-awaited return of the HD Rants!

This time around...GRAIN. Good? Bad? Depends what you mean by grain. Let's rant about it...

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• hd
• rants
• blu-ray
• bluray
• br
• bd
• brd
• hdtv
• film
• grain
• grainy
• graininess
• artifacting
• dnr
• transfer
• quality

[IsaacBTTF]

Some say that films shot on 16mm do not benfit from blu-ray? I guess they are wrong right?

[Zaranyzerak]

@IsaacBTTF Well, they don't benefit as dramatically as something that was filmed on 35 or 70mm, but there is a noticeable bump up in quality. I have the Robin of Sherwood TV show set on Blu-ray, for example, which was entirely filmed on 16mm and it looks much better than the DVD version (which I also used to have).

[Amirichi]

ok i forgive old films, but my biggest rant is to the ******* producers that add film grain to make it look 'filmy'.... why the heck resort to old-school imitation when you can have a clean crisp non-film digital image.. "The look they wanted"........was the movie 300 shot with film? coz it looks like fucking shit.

[Zaranyzerak]

@Amirichi 300 was shot digitally, and had grain added in post production. It was completely intentional on the part of the director and cinematographer, as they wanted the film to have a grittier look. The way it looks on Blu-ray is 100% accurate to how it was made to look from the start, It's not just about having a crisp, clean digital image. It's about the look, feel and "texture" of the imagery that the director wants.

[MiniJanetOnTap]

I was reffering to Digital Grain that flashes/flickers, this is NOT film grain!

[Zaranyzerak]

@MiniJanetOnTap Artificial grain is bad, yes. I have not seen Vamp on Blu-ray, so I can't comment on it. But natural film grain is wild and untamed, the behavior you describe sounds more like film grain than digital grain. Digital grain tends to be perfectly uniform. not random like that. I can't comment more on Vamp until I've actually seen it.

[Zaranyzerak]

@mrreviews1995 Oh, your grammar is the least of the reasons you're clearly an idiot.

[Zaranyzerak]

@wetpixels When I'm addressing the willfully ignorant, there's no reason to be polite.

[IsaacBTTF]

@Zaranyzerak Thanks. Probably film will always look better on blu-ray than on DVD.

[smack9923]

Do you know when 4k movies get released for older movies is there going to be even more grain visible or can we get more detail without adding more grain?

[DamageIncM]

@Zaranyzerak

Really... I thought '300' was really spankin' clean... I kind of don't like that they did that then. But I guess I got the wrong impression.

Not that I won't watch it because of that, but I thought it actually would be very clean and clear, seeing the style they used.

You know what's terrible? That "teal&orange"-trend. Make a video on that, please rant it out of this world, because it actually ruins good films.

[IsaacBTTF]

@sgtpepper1138 yeah I bought it. Well it looked great(especially the colours in Part 1) but after sometime I realised that it seems that in Part 2 and 3 there were a lot of instances were there DNR was used. And EE was surely used in Part 1. I saw a review that had screenshots from the blu-ray I some were bad. doblu.com/2010/10/29/back-to-t­he-future-review/

[sgtpepper1138]

@IsaacBTTF Did you ever pick it up? What did you think?

[Videoho3000]

I hated film grain up until i saw this video. I have been schooled. Lol, thank you for this educational video.