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Having gone round to many friends houses over the years, all keen to show off their latest and greatest new DVD / BD / HD / 4K / Player / TV / Projector one thing remains consistent. The vast majority of people can't tell a decent / accurate level of picture quality and very few calibrate the...

As far as i'm aware all of the elements for the main Bronston epics (Fall..., El..., 55...& Circus) are all sitting in the same London vault that they have been for 40-50 years. The elements are apparently in comparatively excellent condition as the negatives have not been touched or re-printed...

Wyatt Earp (1994)

Yes, and from before! HD masters have been made on certain titles from the early 90’s!

MisterLime i'd also love to know if this is a recent 35/8 format transfer or using the HD master prepped for the 2002 DVD, many thanks.

These are two Russian financed masterpieces & given the current state of east west relations, the only way this is gonna happen is by them wanting to do it, there's plenty of Oligarch's who could help make it happen. It's an involved archival job as well as physical and digital restoration -...

No licence infringement comment was intended, apologies if you took it that way, I only mentioned Criterion as they have released it before & continue to release more Kurosawa's, than any other US label. M

Unfortunately, this may be a very long wait, the fate of this and the Russian War & Peace are very much intertwined as both films 65mm O-neg's and soundtrack elements are sitting in various Russian state archives, and they currently have no 65mm 4K+ scanners, nor any intention to ship them...

Question for Mr Finn re: the original Planet of the Apes (1968). The issue is that the sound, although advertised as 5.1, seems to be spread Mono. Chace did a true Stereo/ 5.1 re-mix a number of years ago, when this title eventually gets re-pressed/re-issued, could the correct soundtrack be...

Being such an expert on Fantasia's audio, i'm sure your aware that the 4 channel Stereo sound elements used as a basis for all mixes and editions since the mid 50’s were re-recorded in Mag Audio via telephone cable from Disney's offices using the Nitrate audio stems to a recording facility in an...

Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Sinbad & Eye of Tiger and Polanski's Macbeth, have all been remixed to Stereo /5.1 for BD release. Exorcist has had several soundtracks over the years, the 1979 re-issue had a 6 track stereo / 70mm release, the current version on BD is yet another re-mix, based on 25th...

Just watching the set, the picture for the most part is outstanding, especially compared with what was available previously on broadcast/ dvd. There is, however, serious issues with the sound on Series 1-3. S1 was broadcast in Stereo, S2-3 both were broadcast in Dolby Surround, as per Dolby...

Sounds great Mr Harris, I do think it's a shame that when Original Stereo Music tracks are available, they are not used for an alternate Stereo re-mix track, especially if they are taking the time to transfer the picture at 2/4K - and are likely to be the last masters produced for these films...

Any news on this being released on Blu yet, i'm surprised they've missed the 45th Anniversary, given the love of 5 year re-issues, if they wait for the 50th they'll probably have to do it again in 4K!

Thank you once again for your hard work Mr Harris. I'm intrigued, as the studio junked the DME tracks / sound recordings back in 1970 has every LP / Cd release of the sound track release since then come from a vintage LP master? M

Ron, just to briefly respond to your points, as originally said 2 years ago there was little point in running 2 polls on two sites when the objective was to get members fave films released, not to increase traffic to an already succesfully site. As for the htf having a sony insider, he didnt...

Hi Ron, i'm afraid it was the truth. Here is the thread http://www.hometheaterforum.com/t/297199/vote-for-the-sony-classics-you-want-on-bd As you can see, in my reply to your removing the link I even specifically mentioned 1776. M

Oh the irony! About two years ago I posted a link here to a poll at another blu ray forum, which was read and approved by a senior sony executive. If enough people voted for particular sony titles, they would have been fast tracked for reviewing a potential BD release. Ron decided to block the...

UK release is on 3 x BD-50's and seems fine in terms of quality/compression so far... Import price is not far off what amazon usa are charging for the over-compressed version Region B only though... M

I have already said, in follow up to my original comment, that the link to your review was made without reference to who you were and your site didn't indicate it either. Therefore, as mentioned, I didn't see why your review should be labelled "credible" and the others not, be it in implication...

That's great, but unfortunately this is not an animation community forum - and so the vast majority of people here have no idea who he is - a fact he seem's to have taken offense at!

I find it hilarious that you presume to tell me to "read carefully" when you yourself have mis-read and taken offence at numerous things not even aimed at you. So your efforts to inform people of this issue, consisted of possibly sending an email, years ago, to someone who may or may not have...

With regard to your "armchair expert" / "attacks" comments, as I mentioned previously I have no idea who you are or what your expertise is or isn't - as i mentioned your site makes almost no reference to all the things that you seem to be in a huff about that I/we should apparantly know...

The second set of screen caps show that the blu-ray is better - same as the first! Tom is supposed to be grey/black - not blue - equally the paper in the book he's reading is white on the blu-ray edition and a shade of light blue on the dvd! It's also sharper and more film-like on the blu. As...

I'm sorry but i'd hardly class that external review as "credible." As has been mentioned, these are 60-70 year old 'toons, where the best possible elements just don't exist anymore and so they are using the best of what exists. Like the others, out of the two, I'd go for the right hand...

Thanks RAH

Hi, RAH, I realise this is a bit of a crystal ball question, but is there any restorative techniques currently in development, that may be able to improve this in the longer term, or is this basically as good as it gets or is ever likely to get?

Many Thanks RAH

Hi Mr Harris, v pleased to hear that this classic has finally been rejuvenated! Could you go into more detail about Warner's restorative efforts, I know they made an 8K scan of the 65MM O-Neg, but was all the damage/problems cured digitally and then a new archival 65mm negative output to allow...

I've no idea of the specifics, luckily at the moment they don't need the YCM;s, if they do then, as an example, "Pollyanna" had a knackered negative and the YCM masters turned out to be YCC! They managed to fix that little problem....more recently North X Northwest had a knackered negative and...