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"ROCKY 2" Blu-Ray Test

rocky2-1 S YNOPSIS

After shaking the champion Apollo Creed, Rocky Balboa gets the right to confront him again. Apollo Creed does not support indeed not have been so upset, although he has won their last fight on points. Rocky marries Adrian, buys a house and witness the birth of his son, Rocky Jr. He decided to quit boxing and get a job but Apollo Creed uses his connections in the press to force Rocky to fight again against him. After the agreement of Adrian, Rocky trains. In battle, leading the fight Apollo Creed, but the last round, the two boxers fall to the mat and Rocky is the first to recover and become world champion.

This edition Blu-Ray Film Stallone is part of a package comprising the entire album, and a Blu-Ray supplements that addresses the full range of ways, and that we will detail later.

VIDEO CODEC: AVC
1080p
FORMAT: 1.78:1
BITRATE: n / a
Fox, France, availability: November 4, 2009

rocky2-2 For its transition to high definition, the film seems Sylvetster Stallone did he not receive a full dusting, or a luxurious remastering as was the ca for other titles of publisher's catalog . As proof, the film's opening shows a too large number of film defects: tasks, white dots, the grain structure are not optimized and it is in very poor circumstances that begins projection. However, this situation is improving greatly moments later, and the film gets a very nice place, with a superb silver grain structure, which restores the full impact of the images. Chronic urban half-shade in his first (and long) the first part, the film enjoys a pleasant exposure, but depicts urban landscapes grisaillants, soft lighting and bleak. Night scenes or underexposed also saw very quickly to mashed peas as the granularity abounds, no unceremoniously, offering images disappointing. The definition of external day still remains very appreciable, and displays a finesse in the rendering of different plans. The backgrounds are detailed and show the depth of focus at times surprising. Held in check for nearly half past one, the image expression takes off during the fina, where the magnificent work of steadicam Garrett Brown, inventor of the nascent film process (used by Kubrick Shining on the following year , 1980) is represented so bombastic and brilliant at the final battle, a real showpiece. On this occasion, the color palette, so nuanced and discreet until then flies away too, offering bright primary colors of vitality (the uniforms of boxers, theater lights, the ring ...), which would eventually by almost dazzling. The camera work on the shoulder or carried to a head, and everything is seen depicted with an impeccable fluidity, the AVC codec restores smooth. The last twenty minutes are indeed alone forget the visual and narrative torpor of the rest of the film. The dive shows himself more sharp, and the divine depth of field, as the impact of images. The grain remains intact, and defines an image of the film, which displays a lovely strong loyalty and a substantial fine.

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DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1: English
French DTS 5.1 mi flow, Spanish and Italian & English Dolby Surround 2.0 (192 Kbps)
16 Bit, 48 Khz (Unaudited)
OFFSET: n / a
BITRATE: n / a

rocky2-3 The bulk of the film will be operated on the front, with a central channel rather clear and defined, which prevents the maximum impact cavernous or "weak." Some impact is preserved in the restoration of the boxer often unintelligible dialogue which, contrary to what was possible to fear, does not sound hollow or flat, but instead, are awarded a certain dynamic and good spatial integration . The scene remains flat and inexpressive multichannel, except for a few snippets of sound investments more ambitious, but very minor and barely noticeable. Again, this is the incredible music of Tom Conti who will benefit from the energy expended by the codec DTS-HD Master Audio. Completely open and energized, carefully spread on the front stereo, it also aims to spread on the scene back in order, however tenuous, but real enough. Thus, the generic, or the many musical passages to allow the soundtrack really take off, and to provide a three dimensional space very valuable, especially as the musicality is intact and shows diabolically open to rediscover this partition completely subtle and dynamic. The top end is carefully covered, but the bottom (mid and low) are far less meaningful. Nevertheless, we found that the 5.1 mix of music enjoyed the film was less convincing than another remix that we had recently chronicled in the person of Friday 13. The rest of the film suffers from anemia and expressive a severe lack of depth and range of audibility. The acoustics of the film leaves them feathers, laboring thereby to its existence on the sound. Hard to beat because of the source material (the film dates from 1979 anyway) and its mixing sieved realize at the time by the process analog Dolby Stereo SR.

This foray into digital audio lossless leaves no good memories, and the disappointing lack of ambition. Throughout the episodes, the series mixes are gaining scale, but this album does not retain its virtues sound. However, compared to previous publish SD DVD, the soundtrack earns an impact here at the spatial sharpness and definition of sound as a whole. A 'swelling' welcome, but not sufficiently exploited in the state.

Totally absent, it is transferred to the Blu-Ray extras attached to the cabinet.
Menu not wired for sound, really basic options (his choice, and chapter subtitles)