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Finally! Screen of a good movie!

Why do your screens look so much better than the majority of supposedly direct-from-disc screen captures I see over at AVS?

Heck, your caps are the probably the best I've ever seen, instead of the oddly blurry ones from gooki and sarah at AVS.

I'm surprised that you say that, because Gooki and Sarah's captures are exactly the same as mine, pulled straight off the disc with no additional tampering. The difference, maybe, is that I've generally only taken captures of the best-looking titles so far, whereas Gooki especially posts captures from discs of wildly varying quality. Maybe later I'll start posting captures of poorer-looking discs, but at the moment I'm mainly interested in showing people what the formats are capable of by selecting the best transfers, instead of scaring potential customers away by showing them, say, American Psycho or La Haine.

There's also something to be said for grabbing with an eye toward solid, representative frames. 'Off-frames' (non-resting compositions, figures in motion) have a tendency to look a bit ephemeral.

Yeah, that's true, Jeff. I always try to take captures of relatively static moments, because I don't think there's a whole lot to be achieved by capturing a blurry out of focus shot where the camera and actors are flailing about. In these cases, it is, after all, the movement that gives a semblance of detail, with the individual frames themselves not looking particularly stunning.