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Is that why Vertigo mostly seems sharper than NxNW (it seemed reasonable to attribute this to WB's blu authoring)?

I suspect it's pretty close to that, yes. RAH can say if it's otherwise.

I appreciate the response. I was actually thinking along the lines of "if you didn't trust the dye stability." Do we even know for sure that freezing the stock would have preserved the yellow layer? I think you've said that London processed negatives survived much better. I presume that there is...

Well, that depends on what you mean by "responsible." Presumably someone would have noticed something was wrong if they had bothered to check sooner. That actually leads me to a related question: suppose you had been placed in the lab at Paramount in about 1958, just as Hitch was departing...

I like these movies a lot and think they deserve better, but this strikes me as a bit overwrought. After all, it was the master himself who allowed the films to deteriorate as they did in the first place (though it does not seem that anyone else who made a color film during the period was able...

Maybe it's because of improvements in mastering, but I think that Vertigo looks better than NxNW (the blu-ray of which seems low rez/filtered and dark--though that may just be in comparison to the Lowry DVD).

Is Comcast hurting for funds these days? They can afford it, they just haven't decided to do it, apparently.

First I watched half of Vertigo, which was gorgeous. Then I put in MWKTM. It does not improve after the blue-haoled credits. The bus scene--which was all I could bear to watch--gave the appearance of having been attacked by an incontinent animal. :( The sticker on the package says "digitally...

Thanks. It's along the lines of what Warner and Lowry did with NxNW over ten years ago for the DVD. I recall that it looked pretty good, but who knows? Didn't you say that there is no yellow layer left on the negative?

Are they still using the reduction elements from the early 80s for this one? IIRC, the "tell" is the old Universal logo in place of Paramount's.