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I’ve had a chance to review all 4 BluRay discs now and I must concur with those people who think this is a missed opportunity. Disc 3 is spoiled by digital processing. ‘County Hospital’ just looks wrong resembling 1960s videotape. It’s clearly a good source that has been way overly smoothed...

I also notice the blacks have lost the vibrant glossy look which is something I’ve only seen when a jpeg is over compressed. I’m not sure what’s caused it here. Noise reduction? I guess a higher generation film source would have a similar effect?

I'm not so sure - look at the detail in the SD DVD. Every wrinkle in the fabric of the jackets looks natural and detailed in the SD version. The HD version looks smooth and like a low resolution upscale! I had a play with the Blu Ray capture in Photoshop and I couldn't recover the shadow detail...

It just seems very amateurish. I’ve been cleaning old digital photos for many years now and I learned at a very early stage auto cleanup tools, unless used with great care, strip out detail and throw the baby out with the bath water. Simarly in the audio industry Cedar noise reducing tools have...

1st post and I’ve got to say I wish it would have been a more upbeat one. I've just received the Blu Ray and from a quick scan I prefer the majority of these on the Essentials Collection. They really are soft and veiled looking here. Scram! looks much more detailed and sharper on the Essential...