Senna Blu Ray
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raptor600

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1,356 posts

177 months

Tuesday 15th May 2012
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Quick heads up guys as I just spotted this...

At 5pm this will be Amazons deal of the day...should be well under a tenner so I will certainly be picking up a copy following the reviews I have read by you guys on here!

Here is the link!

Eric Mc

125,919 posts

296 months

Tuesday 15th May 2012
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raptor600 said:
Quick heads up guys as I just spotted this...

At 5pm this will be Amazons deal of the day...should be well under a tenner so I will certainly be picking up a copy following the reviews I have read by you guys on here!

Here is the link!
Not mine obviously smile

rhinochopig

17,932 posts

229 months

Tuesday 15th May 2012
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Eric Mc said:
Not mine obviously smile
You not enjoy it Eric?

raptor600

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1,356 posts

177 months

Tuesday 15th May 2012
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rhinochopig said:
Eric Mc said:
Not mine obviously smile
You not enjoy it Eric?
All I have seen is glowing reviews...plus 92% on Rotten Tomatoes and 8.6 on IMDB...can't be bad!

rhinochopig

17,932 posts

229 months

Tuesday 15th May 2012
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raptor600 said:
rhinochopig said:
Eric Mc said:
Not mine obviously smile
You not enjoy it Eric?
All I have seen is glowing reviews...plus 92% on Rotten Tomatoes and 8.6 on IMDB...can't be bad!
Me, I enjoyed it a lot. If nothing else I found out I'd been pronouncing his name wrong all these years, but then so had most of the UK. i-erton as opposed to what the UK think - erton.

ajprice

33,591 posts

227 months

Tuesday 15th May 2012
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Interesting, I might give it a go. As the footage is going to be a lot of pre HD 80's and 90's TV, is there much to gain in quality with a Blu-ray version?

raptor600

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1,356 posts

177 months

Tuesday 15th May 2012
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ajprice said:
Interesting, I might give it a go. As the footage is going to be a lot of pre HD 80's and 90's TV, is there much to gain in quality with a Blu-ray version?
Apparently the Blu Ray version is far superior to the DVD - remember, even thought they did not have HD TV's back then - the footage would have been filmed with HD definition on film.

Eric Mc

125,919 posts

296 months

Tuesday 15th May 2012
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raptor600 said:
ajprice said:
Interesting, I might give it a go. As the footage is going to be a lot of pre HD 80's and 90's TV, is there much to gain in quality with a Blu-ray version?
Apparently the Blu Ray version is far superior to the DVD - remember, even thought they did not have HD TV's back then - the footage would have been filmed with HD definition on film.
Only that footage that was shot on large format cinema standard film cameras, which, in this case, wasn't that much. A lot of the footage is direct from TV sources which, when converted to film and then enlarged to cinema screen proportions, does show its graininess a lot. This is especially so of TV footage shot in countries using the US NTSC colour TV standard in use during Senna's era - and that includes Brazil and Japan.

I'm not going to go into why I thought the film fell short in so many areas. I actually am glad I saw it - and there was genuinely new and interesting footage I'd never seen before. But it was incomplete in my eyes.

Have a look at this for a more balanced and honest account of his life.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula...

raptor600

Original Poster:

1,356 posts

177 months

Tuesday 15th May 2012
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raptor600 said:
Quick heads up guys as I just spotted this...

At 5pm this will be Amazons deal of the day...should be well under a tenner so I will certainly be picking up a copy following the reviews I have read by you guys on here!

Here is the link!
£7.97 biggrin

Just picked up a copy! smile

ajprice

33,591 posts

227 months

Tuesday 15th May 2012
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Me too smile