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I haven't seen anything suspicious on the old Jaws and Ben-Hur transfers, but it's really annoying on the old "Strikes Again" disc - those blobs are visible on nearly every cut. I'm so glad MGM managed to get a better print.

Here are the last two Pink Panther Comparisons... apologies for the delay, had too much other things to do. But now: The Pink Panther Strikes Again Revenge of the Pink Panther A huge difference on "strikes again", the contrast on the old disc was abnormally low. And there was something...

I included the shot with the prison gate because it's about the only one where the different framing doesn't look so good, but it's really not that dramatic. What happened on the old version is probably that MGM transfered the entire left side of the negative including the area where the...

The comparison for "A Shot in the Dark": http://www.bibra-online.de/movie-compare-pp2.htm I've also added one full-size example at the bottom of the first comparison and did the same with the "Shot" comparison. The difference between the two transfers on "Shot in the Dark" is really...

Yes, I know - it's either more captures in smaller sizes or only a few large ones. When I'm doing the other movies, I'll make 10 or 15 at 600 pixel width and one special example in the native resolution. Universal really did a great Job with "Return", can't praise that disc enough :-).

Okay, so here's the first one: http://www.bibra-online.de/movie-compare-pp1.htm And just for fun and demonstration purposes, a comparison between the widescreen and pan&scan-version: http://www.bibra-online.de/movie-compare-pp1ps.htm The difference between the two widescreen versions are...

I've added some more captures to the "Return..." comparison, same link as above. Not for the faint of heart, I might add! In some scenes on the new Universal disc the framing seems to be zoomed up a bit, but then again the Artisan looks strangely horizontally squished in these scenes. If...

Maybe a bit back to the topic... finally got the new Universal disc of "Return", and it looks very good, almost like a Lowry restoration - a little grain, but excellent sharpness and a very clean picture. Sound is mono, but sounds equally good. The old DVD looks like a bad VHS tape in...

The Trailer is on the Artisan disc, but it doesn't look like they used outtakes for it. Nothing very exciting in there, and not a particularly good trailer, just a little clip show with a boring voiceover.

I'm still waiting for my disc to arrive here in Germany, but I've still got the horrible old Artisan release and I'm going to do a graphical comparison as soon as the new disc gets here. I think the differences will show up even on low-resolution captures... As for the MGM boxset, the R2...