A few words about...™ How the West Was Won -- in Blu-ray - Page 4

This movie is a lot of fun!

What a lot of talent involved in this film--in front of and behind the camera. I'm listening now to the commentary track on disc 1 and it's informative and entertaining. They've got a whole crew of people chatting together, including one of the stunt men who was along for the whole 10 month (!) shoot.

This film, among so many stars, has both the Bad (van Cleef) and the Ugly (Eli Wallach)...

Apparently Jimmy Stewart was a lot of fun on the set--telling stories and jokes to amuse people between takes.

While I don't think HtWWW is an example of an SD transfer that could reasonably be considered "dumbed down", I think the reason that rumor is out there is that people are having trouble conceiving of any other possible explanation as to why such a large percentage of Warner's theatrical new release titles on SD DVD  look so artifact-ridden in the "HD era", especially when their catalog releases do not seem to suffer from any of the same problems.   I personally don't think the explanation holds up, as the same reasoning would dictate that their catalog releases on SD would be "dumbed down" compared to their BD counterparts, and that has not been the case.

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