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There is indeed no expection for answers when there is no question to begin with. However, indeed, the reflex shown here towards Paramount's handling of certain titles isn't coming from nowhere, and as you say, some of their own way to answer isn't doing them any additionnal favor (though...

(It's too late for me now to edit again this post, but I spot a couple of typos, apologies for those)

Maybe, and I say maybe (who knows), part of the issue is that when such problematic restorations pop up here and there (often from studios, though not only), there extremely rarely is any tangible info given by the rightholders or the rightholding technical decisionmakers to allow viewers on the...

There are, but in the grander scheme of nowadays restorations, I do believe that we are in an era with less duds than in the past, with systemic digital tinkering being a much lesser thing that it used to be. In parallel, sure enough, some people have grown a more discrimant eye for technical...

Fortunately, issues like here actually are quite rare nowadays. Which is why the more problematic works are sticking out even more so. If you properly take screencaps of these 2 movies and analyse the PNG files, you'll see they're not pure B&W like they're supposed to be, so it's baked in the...

That's indeed the point : not that the compression on disc A is worse than on disc B, but that the general practice on discs deemed properly encodes don't show this, while discs with issues tend to do, so if this one does, well, maybe that's a marker something's amiss, probably from an encode...

I know some tend to make a clear difference between remasters and restorations, which I tend to do less. In any case, my point remains the same regardless of which terms fits best the Liberty Valance 4K workflow. As for the public they might be attempting to please, I obviously am only...

Theoretically, it is. In practice, even if x265 is more efficient than x264, there is no reason (except of course for uniform screens that pretty much don't require any bandwidth no matter the format) for a UHD encode to go this low, so much that you're even lower than the BD counter-part. This...

I do too, don't worry ! But when you'd like to watch 45 movies a month and only have time to watch 25 anyway, you can prioritise those 25 over the other 20, and still only watch what you want to watch (which is what I do in the end). You're talking specifically (and only) about encodes and...

In theory, I agree with you : I prefer to know when things went wrong and know what to avoid, in part because we humans tend to respond more (and more instinctively) to bad stuff rather than good one (bad is bad, good in normal). In practice, and especially with BDs, most people still buying...

I don't know if they haven't been taking notes or if they just actively are choosing to do otherwise, but in any case, and though it's far subtle than the Fox Deluxe, Ritrovata or Eclair trends in homegeneising gradings over very different movies, Paramount indeed have been grading their...

It probably doesn't help that it often requires outsiders (or, as some people prefer to call them, "armchair experts") to call them on some of their problematic releases because seemingly, no insider managed to do that, their deciding people don't realise what's wrong either, and then some...