Three Colors Blue AKA Trois couleurs Bleu 1993 2160p UHD BluRay R...
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Size...........: 67.1 GiB
Container......: Matroska
Duration.......: 01:38:19.875
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Codec..........: HEVC, Dolby Vision, Version 1.0, Profile 7.6, dvhe.07.06, BL+EL+RPU, Blu-ray compatible / SMPTE ST 2086, Version HDR10, HDR10 compatible, PQ
Resolution.....: 3840x2160
Bit rate.......: 92.7 Mb/s
Frame rate.....: 24.000 fps
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Format.........: FLAC
Channels.......: 2 channels
Sample rate....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate.......: 1 243 kb/s
Language.......: French (Original Stereo Mix)
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Format.........: DTS-HD Master Audio
Channels.......: 6 channels
Sample rate....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate.......: 3 308 kb/s
Language.......: French (Surround Upmix)
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Format.........: FLAC
Channels.......: 2 channels
Sample rate....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate.......: 427 kb/s
Language.......: English (Commentary by film scholar and author Annette Insdorf)
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Language.......: English, PGS
Language.......: French (SDH), PGS
Language.......: German, PGS
SOURCES
(1) Curzon Film GBR UHD Blu-ray (2023) - video, stereo mix, surround audio, English subs (Thanks YoungCloud)
(2) Miramax R1US NTSC DVD (2003) - commentary track
(3) Potemkine FRA UHD Blu-ray (2021) - French subs
(4) Concorde Video GER Blu-ray (2013) - German subs
(5) Criterion USA Blu-ray (2011) - named chapters
NOTES
Used the latest DGDemux with merge DV function for the video, eac3to for the rest. Dropped the 25s Curzon intro. Opted for Curzon GBR UHD for this remux as it gives the best transfer out of all currently available sources and does not suffer from filtering present all over the USA source. It must be said GBR does occasionally show some encoding artifacts and struggles with bright color gradients, but nothing even close to the atrocity seen on the Potemkine FRA 4K box set. Interestingly, this problem plagues the entire Colors Trilogy since as far back as 2003, with the Miramax DVD release already full of heavy macroblocking, so I’d say we might as well consider it an intentional artistic choice. The picture quality on Curzon is otherwise quite phenomenal, so I find the tradeoff rather easy to accept.
Video comparison: Criterion USA UHD BL/BL+FEL vs Curzon GBR UHD
Dolby SR stereo mix from the Miramax DVD sounded quite competitive, but I decided to go with the Stereo track from GBR UHD as it definitely has a significantly more detailed and crisp sound and higher frequency cutoff. Also kept the surround upmix from the GBR UHD.
The commentary track from the Miramax DVD had been pulled up from 23.976 → 24.000 fps. It was drifting out of sync with the GBR video throughout the runtime due to slightly different scene-to-scene cuts, it took x5 edits to achieve perfect waveform to waveform sync.
German subs from Concorde GER Blu-ray, synced to the remux; French SDH subs from Potemkine UHD.
Named chapters sourced from Criterion USA UHD, synced to matching i-frames.


