WB has really stepped up on their Blu-rays for classic movies. The transfers are all top-notch, from freshly minted film elements, with superior VC-1 encodes. The problem with WB is everything else. Minor catalog titles and even newer movies come out in poor-looking editions. Their television releases are a disgrace to the format.
Quo Vadis looks fabulous, and so does North By Northwest. All the restorations really show how a studio can make any film look great, if they are willing to spend the money. Now they just need to release them in regular editions, instead of packaging them with trinkets like they did for Wizard of Oz.
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