A few words about...™ Casablanca -- in Blu-ray

The original negative of Casablanca, one of the greatest and most beloved films ever created, was not always treated with respect.

Rather, it was treated harshly. How harshly? More harshly than I hope you can imagine.

With wear and tear, and pieces missing, WB gathered the surviving elements and created a digital representation of the film, and initially released it on SD and HD.

It was glorious.

Now, finally making its way to Blu-ray, Casablanca arrives in that same quality master, with the earlier extras still intact, and with a new documentary on Jack Warner, the most recognized of the Brothers, on a separate disc.

Casablanca is back, looking as it should, and while I give it and its beautiful packaging an Extremely Highly Recommended, I do so with a single caveat.

I'm aware that there are many collectors who love receiving postcard sized reproductions of stills, small books, and in this case, a small wallet suitable of holding one's Letters of Transit, and this is all well.

What I do not like is that once the aforementioned packaging is opened, and the contents dealt with, that I have no easy way of shelving the discs themselves in a protected environment. I have the same problem with the Dirty Harry Collection.

A small cardboard folder, open at the sides does not do it for me. Dust is the enemy. To that end, I would request that within whatever packaging is created in the future, that the actual discs reside in a normal, sealable plastic Blu-ray holder.

RAH

Re: A few words about...™ Casablanca -- in Blu-ray

Casablanca is 102 minutes in length - a relatively short film by modern standards. If data throughput was upped by 50% in the switch from HD to BD, I doubt that there would be any definable gain in image quality.