stockslivevan wrote:Nope. Speaking of TSWLM, it has never looked better. I guess the diffusion look is why the previous DVD releases used excessive edge enhancement.
And on GE, from what I understand they didn't use the Lowry transfer for blu but instead went back to an older video master which is probably why the DNR was used because of grain you wouldn't have seen on the old DVD. I don't think it's unacceptable, but it is too bad they didn't rescan it for a newer better master.
The story I heard is MGM found an original print of TSWLM which looked better than Lowry's master so used it in stead. The GE master was cropped and butchered by Lowry, I don't know why it was never corrected by them, gives them a bad mark well another bad mark.
The GE master to me is indicative of the industries attitude about selling home video and Blu-ray/HD DVD - although there were a hand full of occasions where a few studios were forced/shamed into correcting bad prints with a recall. WB's Fellowship of the Ring tinting issue was all but ignored by them. Studios figure the public will buy it and accept whatever issue the studios were too cheap to correct, usually they are right. Of course Sony is launching "Superbits" 4k Blu-ray which in theory would force better masters as a standard but...it's all Sony advertising nonsense.
The poster book that came with the set was a sampler basically, the complete book which I had before the set arrived is a monster.