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 From:  Manthorp   16 Mar 2020 10:12 
 To:  william (WILLIAMA)       21 of 29 
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Get another and you'll have Il Divo.
"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)    16 Mar 2020 10:50 
 To:  Manthorp      22 of 29 
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Oh, Har de har!

Yes, I could buy the blu ray (no English subs) and improve my terrible French so that I don't need subtitles. That would give me something to do while I self-isolate here in leafy Sussex. The world's my oyster.
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 From:  Manthorp   16 Mar 2020 11:02 
 To:  william (WILLIAMA)       23 of 29 
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There's probably some Diva-fanboy site that would appreciate a frame-by-frame analysis of the difference between versions.  Make yourself useful while you're spared...
"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   16 Mar 2020 14:51 
 To:  Manthorp      24 of 29 
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I probably would not read that. Just sayin'
“Everyone else knows there are no dumb ideas…”
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 From:  Manthorp   16 Mar 2020 16:29 
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      25 of 29 
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(don't say that too loud. We just want to keep him busy while he's self-isolating. He's got four months to kill)
"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)    21 Mar 2020 20:35 
 To:  Manthorp      26 of 29 
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Yeah right. Not going to do a scene by scene, or frame by frame breakdown, but here's a surprise: the Anchor Bay release that is offered at a sensible bit-rate and hasn't been digitally enhanced, is the winner. Some dark scenes look REALLY grainy. They're still better than the Meridian version with its smoothed over dark scenes. 

Still to see the blu ray version.

Jim has this in a couple of places but they're those odd multi-piece downloads where you're invited to download 30 one gig files at a painful rate and then remux them all. Almost worth investing....
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 From:  Manthorp   22 Mar 2020 11:59 
 To:  william (WILLIAMA)       27 of 29 
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I will have to borrow a copy from Jim - .rar hatchet jobs or not - just to see what you & Smiffy have been banging on about.
"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)    22 Mar 2020 22:07 
 To:  Manthorp      28 of 29 
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Plenty of copies with Jim.
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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)    28 Mar 2020 13:56 
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Hah!

Acquired a 720P rip of the blu ray from usenet. I mean, Blimey! I'd forgotten all about usenet. I may try to get a 1080P rip but that means a bit more messing around with files.

Yes, the blu ray release is FAR better than any of the DVD versions, even downscaled to 720P. No English subtitles though, so that's my next project.
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