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Originally Posted by tenia
As for half assed restorations or using decade old masters, I dont see how anyone could defend BD releases using them.
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Sure, it can be frustrating when favorites are released using anything less than freshly minted pristinely restored 4K masters but those 'half-assed' releases are often reasonable compromises. Even when pristine original materials are available, studios aren't swimming in cash these days and given the realities of the home video market they're understandably reluctant to throw large chunks of what cash they do have at restoring and remastering every title in their catalogs.
So yeah, I would love a white glove release of something like a Kiss Before Dying or The Verdict but in the meantime I'm pretty happy with the current releases.
I love Criterion and Arrow and Warner Archives and Eureka/MoC but there's a place for Kino's Studio Classics and Redemption lines too.
Hell, there's even a place for Mill Creek.