Got and watched Finding Nemo last night and, as usual with a Pixar
product, everything is beautiful except there are times - especially
in closeups - that Dory (the blue Ellen DeGeneres fish) has a distinct
blue glow. It's like the color is just pouring right out of her.
This does not happen with any of the other characters - not that I
noticed in one viewing anyway. I have read a few DVD reviews and none
that I have read make any mention of this. They all just rave about
the perfect digital transfer.

Has anyone else noticed this, or is this a problem with my system
(Toshiba DVD payer and 43" rear projection TV)?

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 17:55:43 GMT, Dale Sahr wrote:

I noticed it too. Onkyo player and Sony Wega 27" with 16:9 mode.

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On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 00:54:27 GMT, Doonie
<doonie666REMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote:

perhaps it's her contractually obligated "soft focus" effect; ellen is
gettin up there in age ya know . . .

ej

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 17:55:43 GMT, Dale Sahr <dale@mcadamsbuilders.com>
wrote:

No. It's look perfect on my set.
(Pioneer Elite Pro-610HD & DV-47A)

- Rutgar

Stop!! Dale Sahr time...

i noticed on the clown fish..
not all the time.. but certainly occasionally..

Marlin, too. I believe it's a compression artifact akin to "banding".

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 17:55:43 GMT, Dale Sahr wrote:

Bruce looks fuzzy in a couple shots, too.

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"Jay Pennington" <datalore@fdn.com> wrote...
During the visual commentary, the filmmakers comment on how
they made the fish out of "gummy" to make them translucent. So
light does seep through them. The only time I saw one of them
"glow" though, ie generate their own light, was right after Jacques
cleans Nemo.

-Jay

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 21:45:17 -0600, Jay G wrote:

I think that's just supposed to be crud coming off of him.
A "glow" would be the wrong word to describe Dory's phenomenon.
It's as if some of her blue has come off and is diffusing into the
water around her. Bruce does it, too. Look at 18:46 to 18:49 the
whole time he's saying, "It's alright, I understand - Why trust a
shark. RIGHT?" Dory is doing it really bad when she asks Marlin just
a few seconds before, "Can I help you"? She does it a few other times
in the movie, too. Pretty annoying.

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On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 07:40:33 GMT, Doonie
<doonie666REMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote:


That's the scene whrere it was really obvious to me too. It was to
the point that I thought that maybe she was some kind of light
emitting fish. When Dory and Marlin go into the deep, black trench
and she doesn't glow I knew there was something wrong. I wonder why
none of the reviews I've read make any mention of this.

BTW -thanks to all who have responded, I feel better knowing that its
not my equipment.

Besides the diffusive "glow", I noticed a more distracting anomoly in FINDING
NEMO, and you can see it in the very first scene: Marlin and Coral are both
surrounded by what I can only describe as the digital equivalent of a "garbage
matte" -- a mostly translucent layer of fog enveloping the characters. Wassup
with THIS?

cheerios,
steven


"The Han Solo I grew up with would never have let Greedo get the jump on him."

"SDamien3" <sdamien3@aol.comspamfart> wrote in message
news:20031110114745.07617.00000329@mb-m25.aol.com...
What are you using for a DVD player. There is nothing even remotely
resembling anything like that on my copy of the disc.

I'm using a 2nd generation Pioneer DVL-700, which is rather archiac, I grant
you... but I can also detect this anomoly when played on my cheap-o Apex as
well as on my PC.

It's not a steady nuisance, but I can offer a specific time reference for an
example of the anomoly I'm referring to ... go to clock 1:30 (wide shot of
Marlin and Coral by the drop-off) and look for the traveling garbage matte
surrounding the fish.

cheerios,
steven

"SDamien3" <sdamien3@aol.comspamfart> wrote in message
news:20031110225706.16519.00000289@mb-m27.aol.com...
The DVL-700 was a decent laserdisc player but is a notoriously poor
first-gen DVD player. Apex's price-point speaks well enough towards its
quality, and DVD-Rom drives tend not to be all that great unless you've
sunk a lot of money into your video card.

Hmmmm.... I just tried it with both my good DVD player (Denon 1600) and
then on my lesser DVD-Rom drive. I don't see anything on the TV.
However, if I press my face close to the computer screen I can see what
appears to be mosquito noise compression artifacts. The disc is
overloaded with features, so I suppose it could be a problem with the
transfer that some MPEG decoders will handle better than others.

So, now I don't think you're completely unjustified in pointing this
out, but I do think that with better playback equipment it could be
reduced or eliminated. I do wish that Disney had better distributed the
disc content by dropping the full-frame transfer and moving all of the
supplements to Disc 2, but I've got to say that when I watched this on
my 6-foot wide DLP screen it still looked as close to reference quality
as I've seen in a long time.