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Launched during the winter and subsequently eluded during lockdown; Lothian Buses 417 - BN64CRX has been rebranded for this years (cancelled!) Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. It carries this outstanding livery for the Tatoo's 70th anniversary which will now take place in August 2021.
Seen in Wester Hailes showing off its livery to good effect.
Launched during the winter and subsequently eluded during lockdown; Lothian Buses 417 - BN64CRX has been rebranded for this years (cancelled!) Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. It carries this outstanding livery for the Tatoo's 70th anniversary which will now take place in August 2021.
Seen in Wester Hailes showing off its livery to good effect.
This is definitely a showpiece! There is an acetate cover, and when I removed it, it has a new car smell!!! 😆
The skirt feels like velvet. It’s the model muse body. Softer version of the Karl face sculpt I think I read in the Collector site.
HB-KGC Cirrus SR22T Turbo GTS Platinum edition RIAT Fairford 13 July 2022. RIAT legend Bruno Stocker.
A brand new Expedition, redesigned for 2019. This is a Platinum edition, the most high end model you can get.
N347DC Cirrus SR22T Turbo GTS Platinum edition Cock Aviation Trustee AeroExpo Wycombe Air Park 15 June 2019
A brand new Expedition, redesigned for 2019. This is a Platinum edition, the most high end model you can get.
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Platinum Edition: "Planet of Junk Clash" Scrapheap,
Generations Junkheap with Lucky Rogers JK-01 Warrior
upgrade kit,
Reveal the Shield Wreck-Gar,
e-Hobby Exclusive: "Autobot Set" United Scrapheap &
Generations Junkheap
Here's a comparison of the new Diamond Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack of Disney's Beauty and the Beast versus the previous Platinum Edition DVD release.
I used my Canon 5D Mark II and EF 50mm f/1.4 USM lens to take old-fashioned screenshots of my Samsung LN52A550 LCD HDTV paused at the same frame on each disc.
The top row is the Diamond Edition Blu-ray, the second row is the Diamond Edition DVD, and the third and fourth rows are the Platinum Edition DVD (more on why two rows later).
The left column is with the Samsung's "xvYCC" setting "on" and the right column is with "xvYCC" off — that is, the left column is with the video's color space stretched across the wide-gamut native color space of the TV, while the right column is some vague approximation of displaying the video in the intended NTSC color space.
I used f/18 to lessen the moiré somewhat. Processed with Faithful Picture Style, 5500K color balance, full lens aberration correction, and all other settings at zero. Output in Adobe RGB color space to best represent the TV's wide gamut. Finally, I shrunk everything down to halfscale to fit on Flickr better.
There are two rows for the Platinum Edition DVD because I noticed for the first time while doing this comparison that that DVD does not fill the frame on a digital display — it assumes your TV overscans, i.e., that it is a CRT. That highlights the transitional role of DVDs: the first all-digital movie medium was a step up from Laserdisc but still intended for viewing on analog displays. The third row, like the first and second rows, is with the TV in its normal "Just Scan" mode — where one pixel in the input is mapped to one output pixel. The fourth row, which spills out of the TV frame, is "16:9" mode, which is an approximation of CRT-type overscan.
Despite the over/underscan, you may notice that Belle is still larger in the Platinum Edition than the Diamond Edition. Look even closer and you'll see the Diamond Edition framing is looser overall — the Diamond Edition actually gives you more picture than ever before. Nice.
More obvious is that the Diamond Edition is more saturated than the Platinum edition. Not only more saturated, but with a higher gamma - again, presumably because the new discs are intended for digital rather than analog displays.
View the original size and now you really start to see the advantages of Blu-ray. It's not just the higher resolution; the compression artifacts disappear as well. But don't just compare the top two (Diamond Edition) rows, compare the second (Diamond DVD) and third (Platinum DVD) rows: the authoring of the new Diamond DVD is superior to that of the older DVD, despite both holding three versions of the film plus extras.
(This brings up a lesson I've learned about buying Blu-rays: the best bang-for-buck is when the existing DVD versions were poorly mastered, so that the full potential of even DVD was not realized. Then when you buy the almost-always-remastered Blu-ray, you are getting not only more resolution but, hopefully, a sparkling new master as well. People ooh and aah about the Casablanca Blu-ray, but the Two-Disc Special Edition DVD was awesome too, so that, in spite of me ranking it the greatest movie of all time, it's a low-priority upgrade for me. Actually, the Platinum Edition BatB was also very good for its time; if you want to see something begging for a new master, watch WB's National Velvet DVD.)
The soundtrack receives a just-as-noticeable bump in resolution and definition as well. Perhaps I just need to get used to it, or fine-tune my sound system s'more, but I think it might be too crisp now — it sounds like it was recorded in a studio, with occasional sibilance, breaths taken between lines, and sound effects that evoke a foley guy banging two coconuts together.
There is one definite Blu-ray downside for me, though. You can see it in the above screenshots: the sluggish, nanny-state UI. Disney would like me to believe the timeline displayed when paused is a helpful new feature of Blu-rays, but I never felt any need for a timeline during the last decade of watching DVDs, or the preceding two decades of watching VHS. To me the real purpose is obvious: to keep me from easily making screenshots. Which has never stopped any of the Blu-ray review sites, so chalk it up as yet another failed attempt at copy protection that harms paying customers while providing no serious obstacle to pirates. With every new format the copy protection becomes more intrusive until eventually, like music and PC game studios before them, movie studios will copy protect themselves right into oblivion.
But enough rant. If you don't have a Blu-ray player yet, and want to see what all the fuss is about (and I grant it is nowhere near as big a jump as going from VHS to DVD), be sure to check out a Disney Blu-ray. In my opinion, nothing shows off Blu-ray like computer-generated graphics, and while Beauty and the Beast was largely hand-drawn, it was inked and composited digitally (only the second feature so processed). All-analog Little Mermaid will never look this good unless they literally go back to the drawing board. And Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, while looking remarkably good for senior citizens, simply can't hold a candle to Belle.
N774MW Cirrus SR22T Turbo GTS Platinum edition of Cirrus SR22T 2288 Inc Trustee Private Flyer Show Wycombe Air Park 14 May 2022
HB-KGC Cirrus SR22T Turbo GTS Platinum edition RIAT Fairford 21 July 2024. RIAT legend Bruno Stocker.
Recorded during "iCarly" on Nickelodeon in October 2008. This is the first and only Veteran's Day photo.
Images of the 2014 Toyota Tundra Platinum Edition from the August 2014 Toyota Tundra press event at Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tennessee.
The back of the 2010 Platinum Edition Ford F-150 belonging to Peter from Massachusetts, complete with a black DiamondBack HD cover with back lid open.
The back of the 2010 Platinum Edition Ford F-150 belonging to Peter from Massachusetts, complete with a black DiamondBack HD cover with both doors open.
Images of the 2014 Toyota Tundra Platinum Edition from the August 2014 Toyota Tundra press event at Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tennessee.
Images of the 2014 Toyota Tundra Platinum Edition from the August 2014 Toyota Tundra press event at Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tennessee.
But does it still need the big bow, like in the commercials? Just in time for the holidays, the team at Germain Lexus of Naples equipped this sexy Lexus LC500 Platinum Edition with 21x9/21x10 Forgeline one piece forged monoblock DR1 wheels in the Brushed & Clear Coated finish! See more at: www.forgeline.com/customer_gallery_view.php?cvk=2022
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Images of the 2014 Toyota Tundra Platinum Edition from the August 2014 Toyota Tundra press event at Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tennessee.
Images of the 2014 Toyota Tundra Platinum Edition from the August 2014 Toyota Tundra press event at Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tennessee.