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Sadly I still remember the ending even 25+ years after I watched it, but I am still looking forward to rediscover it on a much bigger screen and on Blu-ray.

It is remarkable that Warner is getting so much criticism when most other studios seem to be doing less not more. I know that this would be a monumental task but it would be interesting to see the percentage of back catalog titles released per studio and per decade.

Which is exactly how I understood it and I agree that a limited budget will go further with smaller, less costly titles. I still think that with their enormous library the total budget for old films should be higher although Warner is probably doing more than most of the other studios.

As Robin says it looks like Warner generally tries to avoid its last remaining large format titles, same with Raintree County. I take it that this is mainly due to extremely high costs associated with doing them right. But Warner seems to be a creative studio at times and I hope they can think...

It would be great to see a release of the two widescreen ancient time epics Helen of Troy and Land of the Pharaohs, directed no less by Robert Wise and Howard Hawks. Greed would be fantastic and while we're at it how about seeing Ben-Hur from 1925 on Blu-ray.

I would really love for Warner to have a Blu-ray successor for DVD Decision™: http://www.warnerbros.com/studio/news/2004-dvd-decision%E2%84%A2-winners-debut-january-11 I also like the possibility that we would get 5 movies out of 20 and I still remember being able to watch Ice Station Zebra...

Beat me to it :)

You mean the one about Love Me or Leave Me? I am sure musical lovers will be very happy about it, same as fans of extrawide early Cinemascope.

I am the last person to complain if Warner handles this, just saying that with the proper master available there are other vendors ready to take over just in case.

And if they do not want to release in 4k let another company like Criterion do it :)

I am with you on this - bring out some titles with visual splendor - I also think that The Music Man is a rather colorful movie, a bit more so than Battle of the Bulge that has a more muted color palette. Of course one could ask what does it matter but as of late one gets the impression that...

Yes it leans a bit to the reddish side, and I think we agree that redoing it will be very low on Warner's priority list. True about the deleted opening and closing sequences, it is an annoyance. I am using scalers for a long time now that can take care of these things but I am sure most others...

You may have a point there: http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/screenshot.php?movieid=26357&position=5 http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/screenshot.php?movieid=26357&position=11 As you can see these look a bit fuzzy so there is plenty of room for improvement with an upcoming UHD version :)

It has been shot on less problematic film stock, the Ben-Hur negative already got very thin in the shadows. So Mutiny can look more even plus i would say that the scenes in the tropics provide more eye candy than Ben-Hur, especially with an extended color space.

How about Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) - it could look fantastic on a 4k UHD disc and as a proper Blu-ray, better than the Charlton Heston Ben-Hur.

I will admit that some parts of what I saw of Around the World looked pretty good given the fact that I saw a lower bitrate version, but there a scenes where the side of the frame is faded and the middle isn't and other aging and fading related irregularities that imo make this OK but not great...

Did you see the uncompressed masters?

You can always rent physical discs when on a budget - you can still have the best possible quality that way for a very reasonable price.

Yes that's true. Still we should push for better streaming quality as we already live in a day and age where many movies are not made available on physical discs anymore while they are available in digital form.

Your last sentence gave me a good laugh :) I HATE to pay the same or more for a digital version of a movie than I would most probably pay for a proper disc - and this is not just because of me looking stupid holding a download ;) I guess that apart from the feeling that I do not really own it...

Technically speaking you can buy and download a bunch of Warner titles on vudu - you would have to download them to a PS3 for example. I would think that Warner is doing the math on a number of these titles and things probably do not add up to a Blu-ray release making much if any money for...

Geisha Boy is sharpened quite crudely and textures in for example clothing are rather subdued.That it is still looking rather good is a testament to its photography but not really to the transfer that Olive has put onto Blu-ray.After trying Geisha Boy and The Grass is always Greener I gave up on...

This works to a degree. Not suited imo for movies that come from large format elements - Olive has released a few movies shot in 8 perf horizontal and they all look substandard and fail to convey the superior visual qualities that these movies should have, a good example for that would be The...

For a while I have been rather critical of Warner but I have to say that currently the quantity of their output may have decreased but the good thing about this is that Warner now usally hits a homerun with every release that is new to Blu-ray. The only other studio that does release similar...