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Comparing the capsaholic screen caps, the Indicator versions look somewhat blurry in comparison to the French BR. The 1.75:1 in particular doesn't look much sharper than a DVD. I don't know know if this difference in sharpness is due to the difference in the prints used for the transfers or...

I agree. While some scenes look just a bit flat and thick - which may have been the intended look, I don't know - others look like bad day-for-night photography. I'm betting there will be a remastered Blu-Ray released at some point. There are unfortunately lots of Blu-Rays that would appear to...

Netflix and YouTube videos are highly compressed and they sometimes skip or hang.

I for one find it hard going back to a DVD after watching a number of films in a row on Blu-Ray. The digital compression is so much more obvious and annoying with a DVD. The haloing, aliasing, and pixelation stick out like a sore thumb.

I have a new high end Oppo player, a region-free Sony player, and a high end, large screen Samsung LCD. Most of the DVDs I own look fairly bad regardless of how I tweak the settings of this equipment. DVDs of 80s films often look particularly bad, but that may be due to the age of the transfers...

My TT Columbia wishlist is..... That's right. My wishlist is empty. This is because I want to update most of my DVD collection to Blu-Ray. and TT 's pricing and limited runs are making that difficult or impossible. Let's face it, most DVDs look like garbage upconverted on a large HDTV...

There must be a lot of faded negatives out there, given the number of Blu-Rays that suffer from "crushed blacks." The JTTCOTE remaster is nowhere near the worst in that regard, and in fact there are any number of Blu-Rays of later films that have it much worse.

Haloing is indicative of digital compression, and so the transfer either has a low bit rate or else it was an upconversion from some lower resolution.

The only TT title I've had a problem with so far is JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH. I'm sure ROLLERBALL won't look that soft.

My problem is the limited availability aspect of the TT model moreso than price. As I mentioned earlier, I've been able to acquire most or all of the Criterion Collection DVDs/Blu-Rays I wanted by spreading my purchases out over the last 15 years. With respect to catalog titles, I feel the...

This latter point is really the source of my complaints and my greatest fear about TT. Some of their latest releases make it look like they're set to start releasing large numbers of catalog titles, and if that happens, a lot of film fans are going to be left out in the cold. There is no way...

I think I have just as much right to complain about TT's pricing and limited availability model as you do to defend the company. For what it's worth, I don't "collect" DVDs and Blu-Rays of films just to own them. I collect these discs because I'm a film fan and the vast majority of the films I...

TT is actually making things impossible for collectors with a limited income, which is why I don't like TT. Many of their releases are important titles in my DVD collection that I would like to upgrade to Blu-Ray, but the output of this company has now accelerated to the point that I've more or...

Whether or a not an older film will benefit from Blu-Ray depends entirely on the print used for the transfer. I have a number of Blu-Rays of older films where the upgrade from the DVD actually isn't all that noticeable. While there might be isolated scenes on these Blu-Rays where the image pops...

Sorry, I just don't buy that argument. On the one hand, the freeloaders who find an illegal copy of your work would almost certainly not otherwise purchase the Blu-Ray, and so their activities will have little or no effect on your actual profits. On the other hand, the vast majority of fans of...

No doubt they own most of the surviving prints and negatives of those libaries, and I think they have every right to keep those film elements and use them to create Blu-Rays, DVDs, or new prints for theatrical release. On the other hand, I don't see why films that were produced many decades ago...

I'm not making justifications, I'm merely stating that a crackdown on "software piracy" isn't really worth the effort. It's obvious that any such attempt is bound to make criminals of people over what amounts to no real damages. I can't, for example, see the justification for prosecuting...

Suppose someone has a long OOP DVD of a film and this DVD is only available on eBay for hundreds of dollars. Would you think it wrong for that person to make a copy of the DVD and give it to an elderly friend who really loved that film? This is all that a lot of these "bootleggers" are doing...

How much chance is there of changing the laws when lawmakers are bought-and-paid-for by wealthy corporations? Bill Clinton signed a bill that extended copyright protections just as works from 1923 onwards were starting to move into the public domain. Now those works won't move into the public...

You're saying that people who post to this forum can use words like "thief" and "film piracy" in their descriptions of grey market activities, but that no one can dissent against such descriptions? Apparently the defense of market fundamentalism is so weak that it must include a ban on freedom...

It's likely most fans of such films will buy the MOD version rather than a bootleg because the quality of the MOD disc will be much better. However, there are still some films that are aren't available as a MOD disc, and in those cases, I don't see the problem if a fan pays some company that...

You're just arguing market fundamentalism here. The fact is that most or all of the filmmakers, technicians, and actors who worked on these old movies are deceased, and even if that weren't the case, it's certain that NONE of them would receive any money from digital downloads or a DVD release...

The DVDBeaver review is right: this Blu-Ray has the dreaded "teal and orange" look. In particular, the nice blue skies from the DVD now have an ugly green-blue cast. Check out this screencap, for example...

The theft analogy is a bit much, since these, uh, distributors, aren't exactly stealing film elements. In many cases, the DVD-Rs being sold come from old, poor quality video sources. It's also unlikely the studios will ever release these films on DVD, let alone Blu-Ray. The situation is akin to...

Hitchcock fans know that Hitchcock films will be released again and again on whatever the latest home video format is. Fans of 80s horror films don't have that assurance, since it's clear that the studios have little or no interest in releasing 80s horror films on home video. It's quite possible...

What you're saying might be true if resolution were the only measure of image quality. The fact is, however, that color and contrast are equally, if not more, important than resolution, and I can name any number of Blu-Rays that have - I would argue - poor color and/or contrast in comparison to...

What annoys me is that reviewers almost never say "stick with the DVD" in cases where it's clear that the Blu-Ray offers little or no improvement over the DVD. The statement this makes is that a Blu-Ray is always superior to a DVD, which is just patently false. There are many Blu-Rays -...

The bottom cap is too blue, like it's been drained of its blood.

Criterion seems to do pretty well, and they don't limit their titles to 3000 copies. In fact, one could argue they're successful precisely because they keep their titles in print. TT is pressuring people to buy now, and this pressure is even greater for the more popular titles, which as we now...

Among the dozens of Blu-Rays I own, the three most common visual annoyances are.... 1) DNR 2) a noticeable color tint [usually blue (NORTH BY NORTHWEST) or green (PINOCCHIO), but occasionally red (SPARTACUS) or yellow(THE SEARCHERS)] 3) the image is too dark and contrasty (JEREMIAH JOHNSON and a...