The 2.40:1 anamorphic
widescreen transfer lacks sharpness throughout, looking a tad soft, dark, and splotchy.
The 2.40:1 anamorphic
widescreen transfer lacks detail and sharpness, while the Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack almost never commands notice.
Not exact matches
THE DVD The Trimark DVD release of Urbania is presented in a very nice if unspectacular non-anamorphic
widescreen transfer that
lacks a certain clarity born of its super-16 source rather than any sloppiness in the authoring.
The video
transfer is in crisp 1.85:1 anamorphic
widescreen while audio is provided in an excellent and immersive Dolby 5.1 English dub (and here my qualification of a «general»
lack of a western bias comes into play) that is, nonetheless, inferior to the Japanese - language 2.0 surround track, which features the original vocal talent who have, not including this film, logged over twenty - six hours of finished time voicing these characters.
Nonetheless, I did not spot compression issues on the
widescreen transfer and as for the pan-and-scan version, well it was
lacking, not purely from the packed disc but it probably suffered next to the previous release.
In this 1.85:1 anamorphic
widescreen transfer, the element stays clean, but sharpness, detail, and colors are a bit
lacking, even for standard definition.
The Sense of an Ending obviously
lacks the sharpness and detail you get from Blu - ray, but by DVD standards, the 2.40:1 anamorphic
widescreen transfer seems pretty okay.
First things first, the 2.35:1 anamorphic
widescreen transfer is soft and
lacking in deep blacks, giving off the impression of a LaserDisc image rather than a DVD circa 2003.