Worst looking CD/LP artwork

[ShineyMcShineShine]

The blurring is not the problem. The blurred images are easier to visually process than anything else.

Who's the guy on the right? Young Schubert?

[Madiel]

Who's the guy on the right? Young Schubert?

What's your point? I was talking about the blurring. I can see that there's a young man on the right perfectly well, even if I don't recognise him. Just as I can see a picture of Schubert that I do recognise on the left.

There could be a razor sharp image of someone I've never seen before and I still wouldn't recognise them. To suggest otherwise is the same line of thinking that leads American tourists to think that people will suddenly understand English if voices are raised.

[JBS]

The blurring is not the problem. The blurred images are easier to visually process than anything else.

Not for me. The text all over the place and in different directions is a problem, but easier for me than the images.

The image of the young man is supposedly Schubert at age 16, but both the identity of the sitter and the artist are both questionable, IIRC. The original image is online
https://www.liechtensteincollections.at/en/collections-online/portrait-of-franz-schubert-aged-sixteen#

[Madiel]

Not for me. The text all over the place and in different directions is a problem, but easier for me than the images.

The image of the young man is supposedly Schubert at age 16, but both the identity of the sitter and the artist are both questionable, IIRC. The original image is online
https://www.liechtensteincollections.at/en/collections-online/portrait-of-franz-schubert-aged-sixteen#

Not a surprise regarding the second image. Which apparently you could recognise. Did you not immediately recognise the left hand image?

[JBS]

Not a surprise regarding the second image. Which apparently you could recognise. Did you not immediately recognise the left hand image?

Yes. But like Shiney, focusing on it gave me a headache.

[Madiel]

Yes. But like Shiney, focusing on it gave me a headache.

So don't focus on it. It's blurry. Of course trying to make it sharp is going to give you a headache, it's an impossible task.

[ShineyMcShineShine]

What's your point? I was talking about the blurring. I can see that there's a young man on the right perfectly well, even if I don't recognise him. Just as I can see a picture of Schubert that I do recognise on the left.

There could be a razor sharp image of someone I've never seen before and I still wouldn't recognise them. To suggest otherwise is the same line of thinking that leads American tourists to think that people will suddenly understand English if voices are raised.

I wasn't making a point, I was merely asking a question. Don't get your knickers in a twist. I agree that the blurring is not a problem.

Yes. But like Shiney, focusing on it gave me a headache.

The jumbled text gives me the headache, not the background images. If they were sharp the text would be much harder to read and thus more headache-inducing.

[Madiel]

Apologies, other things are twisting my knickers this morning.

[steve ridgway]

For Heaven's sake, what a mess, what an absolute mess.

Never heard of Franz Schuber .

[Peter Power Pop]

Never heard of Franz Schuber .

There was so much going on with that cover that I didn't even notice the "Schuber". Well spotted!

[ShineyMcShineShine]

There was so much going on with that cover that I didn't even notice the "Schuber". Well spotted!

The Unfinished Symphony by the Unfinished Schubert.

In fact, the 't' is there: it's shared with "Unvollendete". At least I assume that was the "designer's" intention. Just one of his very, very bad choices.

[Peter Power Pop]

The Unfinished Symphony by the Unfinished Schubert.

In fact, the 't' is there: it's shared with "Unvollendete". At least I assume that was the "designer's" intention. Just one of his very, very bad choices.

Not to mention "The Little" – whatever that might be (for anyone unfamiliar with Schubert).

[71 dB]

The blurring is not the problem. The blurred images are easier to visually process than anything else.

Then why are people upgrading their DVDs to Blu-ray or 4K?

The blurring makes it easier* to visually process the sharp texts over it because there is visual contrast.

* Except the way the texts are done make it quite difficult to read them!

[DaveF]

Yes. But like Shiney, focusing on it gave me a headache.

Apologies for all the distress and headaches caused.  The recording was actually one that Qobuz gave away a few years ago, when they used to do occasional summer freebies, so perhaps it was ungrateful of me to make an example of it.  The performances are quite good - quick and Classical, rather than slow and Romantic.  In the same free batch was the same performers in Beehoven 4 & 7 - perfectly unexceptional album cover there, although with a fuzzy Ludwig glowering from the background, so perhaps there was a bit of a theme going on.

[Jo498]

Not to mention "The Little" – whatever that might be (for anyone unfamiliar with Schubert).

A not very common nickname for #6 to distinguish it from "the Great C major" in the same key. It's should have been the "little C major" (or "die kleine C-Dur") to make sense. But as they already put "Unvollendete" on a cover otherwise in English for the "t" joke, this would have been too much, I guess. Just bad in every way!

[Madiel]

Then why are people upgrading their DVDs to Blu-ray or 4K?

Eh? Your question is a complete non sequitur. Anything else on this cover. I'm talking about a specific album cover with a lot of badly scrambled text on it. Not making a general claim about blurry images in television and film.  In fact, you go on to make the exact same point that I was making:

The blurring makes it easier* to visually process the sharp texts over it because there is visual contrast.

* Except the way the texts are done make it quite difficult to read them!

[Iota]

The Unfinished Symphony by the Unfinished Schubert.

[DavidW]

For Heaven's sake, what a mess, what an absolute mess.

It illustrates one thing: Schubert's health went in the opposite direction as his musical talent exponentially increased. Oof.

[DavidW]

Then why are people upgrading their DVDs to Blu-ray or 4K?

No one is doing that. Physical media is dead.

[Madiel]

No one is doing that. Physical media is dead.

Please don't channel Todd.

Edit: See what you did? Though I do like how his chart illustrates that the media companies now get so much more out of people than they used to.