GoldenEye Blu-ray?

[Jezza]

Originally Posted by Riddler95

The cropping on the Goldeneye Ultimate Edition DVD from 2006 was disappointing.

The older Special Edition DVD from 1999, did have the full 2.35:1 image, but it suffered from major compression and does not look as good the current Ultimate Edition DVD.

I have heard that MGM gave Lowry a print that was going to be used for a Pan & Scan version on Goldeneye. Therefore cropping had already been done.

Even though the picture was cropped, I thought that the Ultimate Edition DVD was a very big improvement in picture & sound quality over the older Special Edition DVD. The colors were better, there was more detail, the sharpness was better, and all the artifacts were gone.

Since the transfers used for the James Bond Blu-Rays come from the same source that was used for the Ultimate Edition DVDs, Goldeneye would still be cropped even on Blu-Ray.

The only way to fix the problem is to once again restore the movie in HD. That would mean MGM would have to give Lowry a different print of Goldeneye that has the full 2.35:1 image.

It would be nice if they did, then the Blu-Ray would have the full image, then for those who are don't need a Blu-Ray, MGM could set up a Replacement Disc program for the Ultimate Edition DVD version.

I'm not sure how much truth is in the report that Lowry were handed over an already cropped print. I have a feeling though it may have been accidentaly cropped when transfered to DVD, meaning a restored print exsists without the cropping and when put onto Blu-ray it will be uncropped. It's just a thought though, because I don't see why MGM would hand over a cropped version.

Even if it was cropped when being restored, a new restoration could occur for the Blu-ray because of this, epsecially now since MGM have new owners and even some of the Blu-ray releases have had a little bit of tweaking here and there, such as colour timing, so it suits Blu-ray better.

But I wouldn't expect a disc replacement program for the DVD, because it's been almost 5 years since it came out on the UE DVD and 6 if it came out next year, so many would have gone past caring about it and it wouldn't be worth the effort on MGM's part.