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Originally Posted by captainsolo
I'm trying to wait patiently for individual releases but this just whets my appetite too much..
What's posted so far does seem to indicate that this merely gives a better rendering of what the source 4K looks like and removes the constraints of the old BD release thus giving far more nuance in color and depth but not the night and day dramatic difference we all inherently expect with each successive release. I don't know about claims of digital artifacts or the grain structure. The best evidence to compare against would be if Sony released a beautiful new scan of LORD JIM which Freddie Young shot in Super Panavision 70 shortly thereafter also with O'Toole....but that's only on DVD.
Could a newer mastering process expressly done for this release have yielded better results? Possibly.
It's definitely the most updated and important one since it fixes the ratio issues and restores proper early Cinemascope mumps. I do wish they would present the original mono mix sometime. The 5.1 is reputedly a second go round at trying to replicate the original 4 track mix which IIRC the surround was lost.
Zhivago is an older scan as is Ryan's Daughter and RD is still exclusive to DVD. Passage to India should likely be another candidate for a new 4K scan and treatment.
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Remember this film has gone through several restorations from many different sources. It’s not going to look like a film that was shot yesterday.