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  1. ROclockCK

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ The Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection -- in Blu-ray

    That patch of blue should practically carry a trademark...it's a classic Leon Shamroy™ lighting touch*. * You'll find similar washes of ice blue-grey against gold/tan on walls and props in Cleopatra, The Egyptian, Leave Her to Heaven, and even There's No Business Like Show Business and Planet...
  2. ROclockCK

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ The Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection -- in Blu-ray

    I'm not certain this is 100% correct Chuck. My understanding is that during the first months after the introduction of CinemaScope there was a shortage of anamorphic lenses, and at least one or two of the earliest designs Fox rushed into production had a more pronounced case of "The Mumps". By...
  3. ROclockCK

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ The Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection -- in Blu-ray

    Disregarding the Colorist's choices for a second... I'm curious how you maintained a common top and bottom frame line Chuck. In most shots the width of the frame seemed more or less the same, but the faces and other elements - especially anything rounded - looked more 'squashed' in the 2005...
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    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ The Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection -- in Blu-ray

    Nope. That was just an example of the range of out-of-the-box HDTV images I observed. In Costco, they were all lined up at an angle on top of the warehouse rows. Actually, the differences were somewhat more dramatic than this photo...I didn't spot any from the same manufacturer which were even...
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    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ The Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection -- in Blu-ray

    ...or Occam's Razor? Coincidentally, I was standing in Costco just this afternoon waiting for my optical prescription to be filled*, and I happened to glance up at row upon row of HDTV's...representing all of the major brands...all sharing the same input...and yet none of them looking even...
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