Also, there is a website called DVD Beaver where there are screencaps of new discs and sometimes comparisons between two DVD releases or a DVD vs. Blu-Ray release. The caps have never really been that good or accurate, but lately, over the last three weeks, they've all looked awful - murky, milky, and hazy. I just couldn't believe that some of the new films he was "reviewing" looked like that. Then he put caps up of Billy Jack, where the DVD caps looked 100% better. Now, I'd just seen that Blu-Ray a couple of weeks ago and the transfer is superb with great color and contrast. So, I finally wrote the Beaver and told him what a disservice he was doing putting up caps that didn't resemble the film transfer at all.
He wrote back and was very argumentative, doing the usual thing - it must be MY computer monitor, or my Blu-Ray set up, or my TV. I wrote back and said no, it wasn't any of those things, that everything looks great on my computer monitor including the caps from the DVD of Billy Jack. And that my TV and Blu-Ray set up were more than fine. This morning I had another response from him telling me I was right. He looked at his caps on a different monitor and saw exactly what I was seeing - turns out that on the computer he was using to do the caps the gamma was off which caused the lousy contrast and milkiness. He's fixed them now, and while they're not perfect, they're at least in the ballpark.
