Far From The Madding Crowd (John Schlesinger) - 1st June 2015

[NeilZ]

I’ve spent years trying to figure out which release is better, but ultimately I have to agree that the WB is the winner for me. When zooming in there’s technically a bit more detail on the SC but the framing and grading are inferior, and the latter really affects the experience. What more the encoding is just ok on the SC, where as the Warner has a very nice encode.

I’m puzzled how SC managed to mess this up, but I guess I shouldn’t be, as it was released back when their releases were hit or miss (unlike these days where they do so much better). Maybe someday they’ll revisit it for 4k and fix it.

[Hammerlover]

Originally Posted by NeilZ

I’ve spent years trying to figure out which release is better, but ultimately I have to agree that the WB is the winner for me. When zooming in there’s technically a bit more detail on the SC but the framing and grading are inferior, and the latter really affects the experience. What more the encoding is just ok on the SC, where as the Warner has a very nice encode.

I’m puzzled how SC managed to mess this up, but I guess I shouldn’t be, as it was released back when their releases were hit or miss (unlike these days where they do so much better). Maybe someday they’ll revisit it for 4k and fix it.

I agree; I think the Warner Archive version is much better. Now if only somebody could revisit DARLING and spruce that one up (the StudioCanal release even drops the opening Anglo Amalgamated logo)!