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Originally Posted by Shane Rollins
If there’s a new restoration of The King And I, that’s news to me. The Blu-ray sucks ass. This was supposedly restored off the CinemaScope 55 negative in 2005, but that restoration must’ve grew legs and ran away, because it certainly wasn’t used on the Blu-ray.
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The 2005 restoration was 2k from an IP and a dupe neg (with heavy red/magenta tinge resulting in lobster skin colors) and used for some digital services like Amazon and Vudu. Fox did a 4k SDR restoration from the OCN in 2012 (which the BD and iTunes use) and unfortunately has a strong blue cast like many of the other Fox 4k restos.
Prior to the Disney merger, Fox supposedly did a HDR revision on the existing 4k master and fixed most of the strong blue cast. This master is reportedly on Movies Anywhere but in HD only (since Fox never sent digital retailers updated files other than for the 2014 HD code thing). Threads here with more on the MA version:
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...&postcount=367
https://fanrestore.com/thread-2042.h...ght=king+and+i