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Saw this from Penton in another thread:

For the record, the post supervisor for that particular title (TFE) assumed the master for that title was superb. That was an oversight in the quality control process, plain and simple during the early days of the format.
Might I add that since then, this same post supervisor has probably done more for the home theater enthusiast than any individual I can recall, offhand. Completely unrelated to The Fifth Element issue, he got flat panels into the HD suites after having noticed that grain/noise problems were appearing on consumer LCD screens which were not visible on the pro HD CRT screens due to the nature of the CRT raster lines softening some high-frequency detail and hiding those flaws.

He also wrote an industry report to highlight this issue and he encouraged other studios and post houses to do the same.

The thought that up until this point Sony was using direct-view CRT monitors to view HD masters sends shudders up my spine. We all now how CRT is the king of contrast and color, but when it comes to detail I've never seen a CRT image outside of 9" CRT projection that came close to rendering the detail in a 1080p signal.

What the hell are the various studios using to monitor/QC their 1080p masters and compression jobs? When we see detail differences in Pan's Labyrinth from HD DVD in Europe to BD in the US (in this sad case, the HD DVD has far more detail), why??? Who's QC'ing these things and what are they watching them on to call the shots?

Is there anything going on in the industry to QC the QC process at the various studios?