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since now the Italian version of The Good The Bad and The Ugly is out and has clearly better PQ than the MGM version, is there any hope that there will be a new version with English soundtrack? My Italian is nonexistent...
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That's probably done by the Italian rights holder, and big movie studios typically don't license transfers from other entities. I don't see any new version in the near future.
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Yeah, that's interesting to know. Does that mean they were telecined and not scanned? and then the DNR on top of that. I just watched them last weekend and it seemed to me the clips included in the new HD extras were much much sharper than the movies themselves. I'm severely bummed about that. I guess they didn't take the clips from the old masters?
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No, they were scanned. Telecine went the way of the dodo years ago, and I know for a fact that these are new transfers and new scans. I couldn't say thev source of those clips in the extras though.
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At least with Generations, the movie looks smooth, whereas the clips seem to have grain. Maybe it's just the encoding, I don't know, but I don't see real detail missing. But the other day, the apparent grain inmediately signaled "more natural looking! sharper!" to my brain. Also, the color scheme is slightly different. Also, contrast is boosted in the clips, and they are brighter too. Maybe the boosted contrast influenced my perception of sharpness.
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That is exactly what I was thinking. But it does sound like they may be seperate masters. There have been other cases where seperate masters are run for cable use. The videophile one goes to the Blu and the rest are used for cable, online download,etc.
The next time Star Trek is reissued I'm sure they'll be much improved, so far as many of these movies can be improved.