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Michel Hafner (10 May 2000):
This DVD edition of _Thirteenth Floor, The (1999)_ by Columbia-Tristar is a solid effort that delivers despite minor problems.
The film master used is clean. From time to time there are some speckles and even a bit of vertical scratching, but never distracting. Image steadiness is good as well.
Color and contrast rendition are first rate. Especially some night shots of the city look fabulous. Blacks are deep, shadow detail is very good and colors deeply saturated where needed, more often desaturated, though, since that's what the simulated world within the world is supposed to look like.
Imagery on this 16:9 enhanced DVD is mostly very sharp. The noise and grain level is low. What's not quite as good as we like it is the amount of video artifacts. Overenhanced edges are unfortunately hard to overlook in a couple of scenes. There is ringing around high contrast edges and white outlines as well. Fortunately only some scenes suffer in this regard while the rest looks fine. There is also some moiré in one shot (Venetian blinds, as usual) and there are sometimes slight digital noise suppression artifacts.
Finally, compression is good despite a low average bit of ~4,5 MBit/s. I have seen no distracting artifacts.
This DVD offers for the most part film-like images and will hardly disappoint on any kind of display. There is also a commentary track present that provides behind the scenes information from the director and production designer. A nice package overall.