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The Australian DVD of The Barbarian and the Geisha that I have looks great, so I wouldn't be surprised if the Blu-ray looks even better. It would probably be exactly the same transfer, but from the HD master.

Very tempted by The Barbarian & the Geisha. It has some extremely beautiful cinematography by the hopelessly under rated cinematographer Charles G. Clarke (who shot most of Love is a Many Splendored Thing, even though the cinematography credit went to Leon Shamroy).

Are you wowing at the screen captures? There's more here: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-ray_reviews54/the_egyptian_blu-ray.htm

My copy shipped on the 11th, and I received it in Australia on the 20th.

The Egyptian Blu-ray is definitely region free as it works in my Blu-ray player when it is set to Region B or C. Which suggests the disc has been encoded for all regions, or it simply doesn't have region coding at all.

It's probably better because it didn't have to be projected through an early CinemaScope projector lens. In the book Hollywood Cameraman, the cinematographer of The Egyptian Leon Shamroy laments the terrible quality of early CinemaScope lenses. The Egyptian was the first film shot with the Type...

All of the above captures are from the Blu-ray disc, but they have been compressed to JPG. I didn't crop or resize them, you can view larger versions by clicking on the image. Note, this film was preserved by Fox's Schawn Belston, it is his birthday today: http://www.facebook.com/schawn