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It would be very interesting to know the film stock used in these and other movies, too bad there is no database where we can look it up. Most western large format movies were shot on 5248, 5250 and 5251 but the succession between the three was in a 3 year timeframe which complicates things...

I am going by what I have read about the restoration of Spartacus by RAH regarding the Spartacus elements. It did not look like a standard job to me but rather some heavy lifting while King of Kings apparently was more of a standard job. With regard to how they looked when released I can only...

Glad you liked it. Beautifully done and an example for large format on Blu-ray done right. I would not mind if Spartacus was to look even better but from what I have seen on 70mm it has such a different look that it is hard to compare the two, plus the Spartacus elements are far more problematic...

Yes there is indeed only a very small amount of additional detail underneath all that noise on the HD-DVD. I still preferred the Criterion disc but for my taste it had too much edge enhancement so I wasn't satisfied with either version even though the Criterion DVD was a decent effort for a DVD...

Indeed it is better, so much that I would rather call it an annihilation...

In my opinion the HD-DVD is the lesser of two evils but one should not have to choose between two unacceptable versions of a movie of this stature, I could watch none of the two. But that doesn't matter anymore as it will be a thing of the past in (hopefully) a few months. By all means treat...

It should be noted that the old HD-DVD had not so much grain but scanner noise in abundance - not the same thing. The Blu-ray tried to erase it all and to many was even more unwatchable than the HD-DVD, especially Kirk Douglas looked like he was made out of artificial leather for the most part...

Yes it is, it is the approximate equivalent of an 8k scan for 65mm 5perf (ca. 8 x 3.6k).

Thanks, I had a feeling you would be involved in this and I am happy that after Lawrence and My Fair Lady you now got to revisit Spartacus. So this is a very good year again for some large format classics and Universal will have at least one catalogue title that is well suited for an upcoming...

I am a bit surprised that so far not much information has been coming forward about the work that was/is being done to bring Spartacus to 4k DCP and / or Blu-ray. This is THE big historical epic from Universal, it is their Ben-Hur or Lawrence of Arabia, so I would have expected that the work...

I guess it may be of some use for somebody who is sitting 25 ft away from a 32" TV ;)