; para que quienes no leen inglés puedan entender que como pasó con el DVD, el HD-DVD está en "período de prueba", hay muchos lanzamientos, pero resulta dificil separar la paja del trigo. Como pasó con todos los DVDs editados en 1997 (eran todos una gran cagada para el 2002 aprox.) con el HD-DVD es muy probable que suceda "casi" lo mismo, al menos con una cantidad de títulos y hay que ir manteniéndose informado para no tener que gastar 2 ó 3 veces en la misma película OTRA vez como pasa todo el tiempo con el DVD y sus re-re-ediciones, no ?
Wolf Creek: Unrated
HD-DVD Specs
Region: -
Release Date: 19th December 2006
Country: United States of America
Running Time: 104 minutes
Screen Format: 1080P 1.78:1
Codec: AVC/H.264/MPEG4 (OJO CON ESTO)
Number of Discs: 1
Disc Type: HD30 (O SEA UN "DOBLE CAPA")
Soundtracks: - English DD-Plus 5.1 / - French DD-Plus 5.1
Subtitles: English SDH / Spanish
Special Features:
- Audio commentary by writer/producer/director Greg McLean, executive producer Matt Hearn, and actors Cassandra Magrath and Kestie Morassi
- The making of Wolf Creek
- Inside the Mind of a Villain: a conversation with John Jarratt
- Deleted scene
- Theatrical trailer
DVD Distributor: The Weinstein Company/Dimension Home Entertainment/Genius Products
HD DVD Presentation
Note: the image quality section of this review was written by DVD Times hardware reviewer David Mackenzie.
Wolf Creek is a rarity amongst Western HD DVD releases. Although almost all titles released so far in North America and Europe have used Microsoft's excellent VC-1 video codec solution, the Weinstein Company have chosen MPEG-4 AVC for their releases, also used on most Japanese HD DVDs and a number of Blu-ray titles.
Este lanzamiento es una rareza porque utiliza el codec MPEG-4 AVC que se utiliza en Japón y no el excelente VC-1 de Microsoft.
First, I must say how wonderful it is to see an HD DVD that has no edge enhancement whatsoever. The picture, at times, has a wonderfully natural look with no ugly halos surrounding high contrast objects. This is possibly attributable to the fact that this film was shot in 1080p HD (any film grain you see has been added for effect) - meaning that minimal video tomfoolery was performed to get it onto HD DVD. It's pretty neat to think that on an optical disc, you have a copy of this film that has as much resolution as possible!
Es maravilloso ver que no hay contornos realzados (Edge Enhancement, ver http://www.dvd-reviews.net/clasicos/terminologia.htm). No hay halos rodeando los objetos con alto contraste. La película fue filmada en 1080p HD y el grano que se ve fue agregado como efecto en post-producción.
Of course, that's not the bottom line, because this disc isn't without its problems. The HD DVD has a picture that is still obviously high definition, but at the same time has some flaws poking through the cracks. The first shot of the film shows rippling waves against a shore, and has visible compression problems, even when viewing on a 720p 32" screen. Stranger still is that parts of the transfer have an "eroded" look to them - points where it's clear that some details are lacking. It's visible on the very first shot and comes and goes throughout the film. From what I gather, this is a method used by the MPEG-4 encoder on complex scenes to try and avoid showing compression artefacts. Yet, there are also some close-up shots that look brilliant, as good as anything I've seen from the format. There are some scenes where the added film grain is represented very nicely with almost no artefacting at all, too. Yes, the keyword here is "variable".
Watching Wolf Creek reminded me very much of the Blu-ray Disc demonstrations I've seen - it has bits that are genuinely impressive, whereas others have a slightly displaced look and lack the "wow" factor and potentially almost-flawless presentation that VC-1 codec titles are sometimes capable of.
El disco igualmente tiene sus problemas. Las olas al inicio de la película tienen problemas visibles de compresión, aún mirándolo en una pantalla de 32 pulgadas en 720p (es decir que pasándose a una pantalla más chica todavía ves los defectos que obviamente se verían en un proyector). La compresión MPEG-4 para evitar mostrar defectos de compresión, elimina muchos pequeños detalles en toda la película. Si, los primeros planos se ven geniales (obvio). El grano a veces está muy bien representado. Tiene partes que son genuinamente impresionantes, mientras que en otras "le falta" lo que los titulos codificados con VC-1 son capaces en cuanto a presentación sin fallas.
English and Spanish subtitles are also provided. English subtitles are also provided for all of the extras except the commentary.
Los subtítulos en ingles se extienden a todos los extras, excepto el audio comentario. Español solo en la película.
HD-DVD Extras
Wolf Creek was released in the UK on DVD as a 2-disc special edition set, including several bonus features. For the US DVD release, The Weinstein Company retained the majority of the extras, although they did omit a 22-minute interview with John Jarratt, in addition to two of the three deleted scenes, since they had been re-integrated into the film. The good news is that, barring these deleted scenes, which are, naturally, still missing, the HD DVD includes everything that was on the UK DVD.
En Zona 2 UK el DVD era una edición especial de 2 discos. En Zona 1, el DVD no incluía una entrevista de 22 minutos ni 2 de las 3 escenas borradas (ya que habían sido reintegradas a la película de ahí que le hayan puesto unrated a dicha edición).
El HD-DVD tiene TODO lo que incluye el DVD de Zona 2 UK (que era mejor que el Zona 1, oh sorpresa
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Unfortunately, whoever was in charge of transferring these extras did a very poor job. Being an Australian film, the extras were all quite understandably shot in PAL, and as such a standards conversion was required for the US market (no different from the NTSC to PAL conversion process that happens for every UK release of an American film). Unfortunately, instead of rescaling the image to fit the 720x480 NTSC resolution (as compared to PAL's 720x576), the technicians seem to have simply thrown away the extra 96 lines at the top and bottom of the frame, resulting in the image being vertically stretched and noticeably cropped. The end result is, of course, extremely unprofessional. Not having seen the American standard definition release, I have no idea if it is similarly affected, but my hunch would be that it is.
Desafortunadamente, el salame que transfirió los extras hizo un mal trabajo. Al ser una película Australiana, los extras fueron filmados en 720x576 PAL. Desafortunadamente, en vez de re-escalar la imagen a 720x480 NTSC, los técnicos sinplemente eliminaron las 96 líneas (48 arriba y 48 abajo) que les "sobraban", lo que resulta en una imagen estirada verticalmente y notablemente cortada. El resultado final es, por supuesto, extremadamente poco profesional.
FUENTE: http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=63483
