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Great to hear re: Sony. Great hope for Lawrence and Kwai, Das Boot, Navarone, etc, etc. We should politely bring up this topic at the next WB chat. No reason they shouldn't be reference across the board too.

I think HD can reproduce these films beautifully. The studios, however, seem to be trying to please an unfortunately large audience of viewers who are unenlightened and believe that visible grain is undesirable. This too, shall pass, but there will be some collateral damage along the way. We...

Yes and yes. Which is why they could have backed off on the noise reduction -the size of HT screens is smaller, the grain is naturally reduced. I do remember significant grain during the theatrical run, but it did *not* have fine details in faces, etc smearing and breaking up thanks to DNR.

I just popped it in, and I totally agree. Sad.

Just saw Sleepy Hollow. While it's a very nice improvement over the DVD, I do see some grain reduction happening. I believe we are in the "NoNOISE"-era of HD images. Just like the digital audio years of '89-'93 focused on the removal of tape hiss so that classic recodings would sound...

What do you folks think about "We Were Soldiers" and "Chicago"? I for one was very pleased to finally see the "fabric" of these films on HD. On DVD, the images just fell apart.