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The mysterious "I love you" and other nearly indiscernible moments
jpwagoneer1964:
Just watched today. One my DVD copy I could clearly hear and see "I love you"
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: jpwagoneer1964 on August 06, 2006, 09:54:07 pm ---Just watched today. One my DVD copy I could clearly hear and see "I love you"
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:-*
Welcome to the club, JP!
Aussie Chris:
--- Quote from: [email protected] on August 06, 2006, 09:50:24 pm ---To Chris...in several of your postings you have used "R1" and "R4" versions of this movie. What do they mean? At first, I thought it might be a censorship code. Please explain. Thnks. Doug
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Hi Doug (nice to use your name btw), R1 & R4 stand for REGION 1 & 4 and is type of "security" encoding that the manufacturors put on DVD's to restrict the distribution of the disks. If you look on the back of one of your disks you should see a small picture of a globe with a number (1) in it to signify that the disk has been encoded for the U.S. and Canada. The reason for this encoding is to protect the distribution companies complex international distribution agreements, so you can't just buy a disk from anywhere in the world and play it on your home player (because that would be just awful ::)). Anyway, this is in addition to the picture encoding that your televisions use (called NTSC), which is different to the one ours use (called PAL). To save this reply from becoming too technical, if you'd like to read more on this (including a list of all the regions and which countries use them) have a look at http://hometheater.about.com/cs/dvdlaserdisc/a/aaregioncodesa.htm.
However, an interesting side effect to all this licensing and formatting is that a DVD title in the U.S. can be *very* different than ones from other countries. The movie itself can be taken from different film stock and converted using different technology (called a telecine) by different people with varying skill sets and preferences for brightness, edge enhancement, colour correction and even framing. The sound tracks can also be altered and adjusted with different compression or formatting (e.g. DTS versus Dolby Digital). And of course, subtitles are typically written by different people. The point is that you and I could buy the same title and see a very different movie.
Ok after all that, it would seem that the only difference that I am aware of between the Australian (region 4) disk and the U.S. (region 1) version of Brokeback Mountain is that the R4 version has been formatted for PAL televisions. This means that our picture quality is a little better because PAL uses more scan lines and therefore the picture is a little sharper. Again, to keep this from getting too technical, I'll let you read up on that yourself: http://hometheater.about.com/cs/consumerresources/a/aawhosyourpala.htm.
The bottom line is that although I think our picture quality is slightly better, the disks are basically the same.
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: [email protected] on August 04, 2006, 10:30:21 pm ---As for the posting of Ennis and Jack holding hands in TS1, it isn't handing-holding; Ennis reaches forward and grabs Jack's wrist, and continues to hold onto it until the climatic moment, with Ennis dropping his head to Jack's back.
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This is how I see it too. Even though I periodically try again to see what others see.
jpwagoneer1964:
The "I love you" is right here. Ennis (Heath) is actually saying it in this still. The second he gets the words out scene exits to Mrs Twist with coffee cup in kitchen.
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