This clip was taken with my cell phone of the image on the television. My friend did a sample of what I was wishing TT had done with the film. The first part is HD (gazebo), then it switches to SD Zoomed (Jerusha and her sister) then back to HD (at the dock). The difference is obvious, of...
I totally get that it would look different from the general release HD version. However, the size of the image is easily matched to the dimensions of the HD version, and while it would look less detailed, fans of the roadshow would be perfectly happy with having it, complete; and, mostly in HD...
Still don't get why the release isn't a combo of the HD and SD materials in one, complete, roadshow version, with enhanced for stereo track? I know the reason is TT did not decide to do that, but, I sure wish they had. I have no reason to buy this, just like I had no reason to buy the DVD, and...
The narrative of the film suffers in the general release version, imo. I have no interest in it. It's not the version I saw at The Stanley Theatre, in Philadelphia.
Couldn't you have taken the general release version and inserted the missing road show scenes, even if they were in sd, and just blow up the image to match the HD ratio (kind of like the old LD of 1776). It wouldn't be perfect, but at least someone (like me), who is only interested in the...