A great deal of this happens through the distribution
of screener discs for major films, which are sent to people who belong to major voting bodies (guilds and critics» circles, plus Academy voters) to aid them in being able to watch everything and fill out their ballots.
Not exact matches
For a
screener disc, the audio and video are
of surprisingly good quality, although the final product is sure to be an improvement.
Since a
screener copy (in which all
of the
disc contents are crammed onto a single layer) was used for this review, the picture quality experienced by me, plagued with compression artifacts and noise, is not indicative
of the final product.
For the purposes
of this review, I watched one
of Fox's infamous
screener discs, and it did show some slight problems.
For this review, I had only a watermarked
screener disc, which compresses the content
of the final product to a single layer and is not remotely a good indicator
of the actual quality.
We can only assume the politburo was out to lunch when the
screener disc came round because there's absolutely nothing in this story
of a simple man crushed beneath the heel
of a corrupt state that would make Vladimir Putin even slightly happy.
I only received a
screener disc, which definitely differs from the final product in its presentation
of the film.