Picked up my set today. Didn't have time to really dig into it. Compared about the first 20 minutes of Fist of Fury with the Shout Select disc. From a resolution/transfer standpoint they looked identical. Skin tones seemed to be the biggest difference that I noticed. Packaging on this is a...
DVD Beaver is comparing the Criterion set to the older Shout Legacy/Premiere Collection discs not the most recent Shout Select Collector's Edition discs.
Since Fortune Star is the one who owns & licenses out the transfers they will probably be the same 4k restoration transfers that L'immagine Ritrovata did for them in 2016. Now the question is what color timing will these have. Shout did their own color timing of the 4k transfers for the Shout...
From Criterion's website:
SEVEN-DISC SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
4K digital restorations of The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, Game of Death, and The Way of the Dragon, with uncompressed original monaural soundtracks
New 2K digital restoration of the rarely-seen 99-minute 1973 theatrical version of...
WB remastered Enter the Dragon back in 2013 not sure if 2k or 4k and Shout released the 4 titles in the set as individual titles with new 4k scans/restorations under the Shout Select line a few years back but those went out of print at the end of 2017. Game of Death was a 2 disc release with...