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Quite grainy especially in the darker scenes of the movie. I remember that from seeing it in a beat up print in a cinema that certainly was well past its prime and certainly not some kind of show print. And I do not have an issue with that but I have an issue with Paramount turning it into...

Yes I would say grain reduction in Raiders is fairly inconspicious but you probably could also take away some actors who are in the background in some scene and nobody would notice but what's the point of doing that just because you can? That may be an extreme example but film grain was part of...

You would expect it to show grain much better and closer to the source than the HDTV version that back then would have been relatively low bitrate MPEG 2 1080i. The high variable bitrates on caps-a-holic certainly do not indicate the bitrates when it was aired.

Indeed. I have seen a few caps and it probably looks closest to the 2011 Japanese HDTV version.

You are certainly correct regarding the detail but a comparison with the European DVD while not ideal does not exactly make a case for both coming from the same master and I doubt they had two different masters for the European and US DVD releases...

Paramount's hatred of film grain is strong: https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?a=1&x=452&y=182&d1=1520&d2=8014&s1=14356&s2=76359&l=0&i=15&go=1 There is very little film grain throughout the whole movie in the Blu-ray version and Raiders of the Lost Ark used to be quite grainy.

Exactly. There should be some kind of petition to make the textures, detail and colors of the DCP's of To Catch A Thief, Grease, Raiders and others available on Blu-ray and 4k UHD ;)

Pretty sure it isn't, too much detail for that. Looks as if once Paramount gets going just about everything gets worse, not better: https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?a=1&x=706&y=268&d1=1520&d2=8014&s1=14354&s2=76361&l=0&i=13&go=1