Do you buy releases (blu-rays/UHDs) that are "defective" in your eyes? (1 Viewer)

[Konstantinos]

What the title suggests.

Be it either heavy DNR, or radical color changes (tealing etc.), heavy revising, A.I. etc., do you still buy films that you love?
For example, I want to buy the Fantomas Trilogy with Louis de Funès (I love the films and they hold a special kind of nostalgia for me), but the blu-rays are seriously plagued with tealing (in my eyes, that is. Some people may not have any problem).

Here's a comparison of the French blu-rays with a "fixed" version (I assume the Kino blu-rays are the same):

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I'm thinking and overthinking about it, but I don't know what to do.
That doesn't mean of course that all the releases I have in my collection are "perfect", but some releases are overdoing it with the changes!

 

[Robin9]

I don't knowingly buy discs that present movies "defectively" but I am willing to buy discs that have less than ideal picture and sound quality, for example Never Steal Anything Small and The Last Valley.

 

[James Ryfun]

Not wittingly, I tend to research and weed out the chaff. Like avoiding Kino's Nosferatu blu-ray with missing frames, opting instead for the (Region B) BFI or Eureka. All that said, if I had no other option in the blu-ray realm (I'm not a UHD guy) I'll pick up an old DVD release to fill that void. I can just as easily enjoy an upscaled 480p image without a second thought. /shrug

 

[Thomas T]

If that's the only way I can get them, sure! Hell, I've still got some P&S and full screen DVDs because I know they'll never see the light of day on blu ray or UHD.

 

[tenia]

There are plenty enough competent works, being from a restoration point of view and then from a video transcript POV to spend one's money on, but it all boils down IMO to voting with my wallet : do I think it's fine to give this my money (especially if not on sale) ? Maybe I'll wait for a price drop, or maybe I'll wait for a different foreign label possibly doing a better release (like, say, The Great Escape or Silence of the Lambs).
But not all limitations are equal. Some stuff I'm fine with, and some are just plain incompetence.

 

[Robin9]

If that's the only way I can get them, sure! Hell, I've still got some P&S and full screen DVDs because I know they'll never see the light of day on blu ray or UHD.

Yes, I've bought one or two of those, for example The Sweet Ride, early Jacqueline Bisset.

 

[Andrew Budgell]

I don't let perfection (which doesn't really exist, anyway) be the enemy of the good. If it's something I really want to own, I will purchase it in the best quality format (Blu-ray, 4K UHD, digital, or DVD), even if it has what some might perceive as flaws.

 

[Konstantinos]

even if it has what some might perceive as flaws.

the point was, if it's something that has flaws in your eyes.
Would you buy it then?
I mean, when you know you don't like something with a release.

 

[JoshZ]

It's a case-by-case basis for me. I have to judge whether the changes I don't like (recoloring, DNR, etc.) outweigh other benefits of the new video transfer.

For example, I'm not happy at all with the A.I. shenanigans James Cameron imposed onto True Lies, but when the next best video alternative is an ancient non-anamorphic DVD that looks terrible on my projection screen, the 4K still comes out ahead. I doubt we'll get a proper remaster in James Cameron's lifetime.

With some favorite movies, I just like having a host of different-looking copies (even some awful) to show the title's evolution on home video. I still have the first, craptastic 2006 Blu-ray of The Fifth Element, as well as the Ultimate Hunter Edition of Predator, that I keep around just to compare them with the better video remasters that eventually came later.

 

[Malcolm R]

If it's something you want to own on disc, you would have to overlook some things as these are likely the final disc releases for most titles. If it's an issue that bothers you enough you would never watch the disc anyway, then skip it. But as Andrew says, don't let perfection be the enemy of good. If it's the best version available, and is not unwatchable, I'd buy it since it's unlikely to be issued again in any better version.

 

[Andrew Budgell]

the point was, if it's something that has flaws in your eyes.
Would you buy it then?
I mean, when you know you don't like something with a release.

I understood the question; perhaps I should have said any flaws that I perceive (I don't think that I'm as susceptible to picking up on some of the things others may notice, and for that I'm grateful). Malcolm perfectly expressed how I feel above.