In this thread, we will be taking a look at the large catalogue of Wild East releases and seeing how they compare to previous DVDs released outside the US.
In the first round, we have And The Crows Will Dig Your Grave / I corvi ti scaveranno la fossa
Titanus Italian DVD
released August 27, 2010
vs
Wild East
released October 9, 2012
(Italian disc top, WE disc bottom):
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You will notice a bit more picture on the top/bottom in the Italian release, as well as a better/clearer picture with some visible grain and more detail (open two shots in separate tabs, flip back and forth for easy spotting). Other than this, looks like a pretty similar print, no?
To me, the Italian disc looks substantially better… the WE disc looks like the same transfer, slightly cropped, converted/filtered in a way resulting in the loss of detail that kind of looks like a brightness/color change. It is also stretched a bit horizontally for the resize to 1.85 AR and the picture is interlaced which is just silly.
These differences are not immediately noticeable until flipping back and forth between full sized images, then its pretty obvious
I was looking some more at the Italian DVD - I took the original Italian disc screenshots from the demuxed (extracted) video stream which confused me about the aspect ratio, as the video is stored at a different resolution than the resolution displayed at playback. The film is in fact displayed at the correct original AR of 1.66:1. This applies only to the actual film image of course, as the entire DVD resolution includes the black bars.
So the Italian DVD would appear to be presented with the full original print and displayed at the intended original AR (1.66:1), whereas the Wild East DVD is cropped and then stretched to the incorrect 1.85:1 AR (as well as changing frame-rate from 25fps to 29.97fps with interlacing - yuck).
Ok, I am done with this comparison now. I’m sure I’ve posted more than anyone cares already
As you can see, just like with And The Crows screenshots above, the prints look basically identical except for the added interlacing and altered resolution. And again just like the Crows screenshots, you will notice the exact same print damage spots in all screens. Conveniently for Wild East, this release already included the English dub
(German disc top, Wild East bottom)
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