Universal titles with bad quality

[WickyWoo]

Now let's be fair

OF those titles:

Lost in translation 3.5
Midnight run 3
Smokey and the bandit 3.5
Skeleton Key 4.5
The Hitcher 4
Alpha dog 3
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 4.5
The Jerk 2.5

Were either very old from the 70s/early 80s where the negatives are degrading due to crappy film stock, or were made on indy budgets where the theatrical presentation wasn't that great day 1. They're never going to be "stunning".

BR has the same problem on a bunch of their title selections.

The only way to be better than the HD DVD fanboys is to not make the ludicrous and unfair comparisons they do to make themselves seem superior. It's entirely true that Universal doesn't have much coming new, and that they've pretty much blown their back catalog already, sans Spielberg.