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Yes, as far as the parameters of your question go. Geneon's encode is specific to that disc, but the source master is still the same as the Lionsgate and Studio Canal discs. If the question is, did Geneon apply any sharpening to their master prior to encoding, the answer is, I don't know...

Carl, first and foremost, I can look at the Studio Canal HD DVD and see the effect of electronic sharpening (EE, if you prefer that term), particularly when directly compared to the Skynet version. Van Ling ststed that no sharpening was added to the Skynet master, so I can use that as the...

Ask Van Ling. He has stated no post processing beyond dirt and scratch removal.

The transfer, as in, film-to-tape transfer, is actually relatively old. It was done originally for one of the DVD special editions. The mastering that was done for this latest Blu-ray has not be artificially sharpened. Previous versions have been. What has been done is quite a lot of dirt and...

Cynicism doesn't have much use in a discussion like this, other than an excuse to denigrate others. I happen to have a little bit of knowledge of what may have precipitated Bill's taking a second, closer look at this disc. It absolutely was not Lionsgate, at least, it wasn't Lionsgate that...

But, the screenshots clearly show.... Nevermind. ;)

The second disc of that release is what was released under the Optimum label in the UK (Optimum is a division of Studio Canal). I spent a couple of hours comparing the Studio Canal HD DVD to the original Lionsgate Blu-ray back in the day. The Studio Canal transfer/encode is somewhat better...