Boston Legal DVDs

Even season 1 was HD, but the disks play back with a slight green tint
on the two DVDs I've played them on, with composite or component
connections.

Picked up season 3 today (half-price at Target, folks!), and the color
encoding is MUCH better. Some scenes and areas were a bit dark and
not well rendered on my Sony 32S3000, I wonder if the 40S3000 renders
them better, the 40S is supposed to have ten-bit panels, the 32S
apparently not. Maybe should have bought up a model ... isn't that
always the case?

But I was talking about the disk encoding, and that looks great.

Now I wonder if they're any better on a player with HDMI output, but I
really can't tell between the composite and component, and it looks so
great, it's hard to imagine.

My point, such as it is, is that the encoding seems to be getting
better, any comments on that, is it an industry trend?

J.

On 2007-12-28, JXStern wrote:

My point, such as it is, is that the encoding seems to be getting
better, any comments on that, is it an industry trend?

I don't know. I see different amounts of green on various discs. I think it
can come from many sources, but disc authoring is certainly one cause.

HOUSE season 3 looks more green to me than season 2. They went from 4 episodes
on a disc to 5. Increased compression seems correlated to green push.

British programming (especially older material) that was originally PAL often
seems green to me, and I have wondered it there isn't a systematic color
conversion error when translating to NTSC for the American market.

Players vary in their color balance, as of course do displays. Sometimes this
can be adjusted, but sometimes not.

-Bill
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