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Originally Posted by WJWS Channel 13:Amity
Sorry to dig up a old thread, but just thought I would pass along this info for those of you in the Socal area, TCM will be screening a digitally restored presentation of the 3D version of Hondo as part of the TCM 2013 film festival at the Grauman's Chinese.
I am hopeful this means we will be seeing a 3D bluray release in the near future as well, since the movies that premiere their new restorations at TCM every year usually end up on bluray within a year or less.
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Good news! With luck it will happen this summer. And regarding the picture quality suddenly changing from good to bad, I read (or saw in the bonus documentary -- it's been a while) that the production was having problems with one of the 3-D cameras on location and were forced to use just one of the R/L exposures for a number of shots, so it will periodically switch from 3D to 2D once we can finally see the 3-D version. I suppose the same camera problems may well have required duping of some shots or optical blow-ups to replace closeups, resulting in the quality shifts on the Blu-ray.