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In my opinion the 2006 release was superior, i am checking to see if i can get something foor you to judge for yourself.

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I've got this picture here where the centre image is the 2006 release? and the 1997 image is the outside image?????  ..  I can't remember which is which,, I just had this image in my files....

That image does, if nothing else, show up the difference between the two.

See, there's quite a bit of cropping difference between the two releases.  But the blue in the sky is just absolutely beautiful in the interior, while it looks very grey and dark in the other.  But the panorama is larger...

See, that's why/what I'm torn on.

Like i said  I prefer the '06 DVD. But I will say this based on Beaver's review of the BD-version, it looks like it has some genuine promise.

One thing that I note with the Searchers is that on the three image sets we have three radically different versions of film in nearly every aspect of picture quality. The only reason I mention it, and I don't mean to digress or get into a controversial topic, it reminds me of the our own issues sometimes with images. I find the '06 DVD to be the best balanced color-wise of the three images. Howare we to know, typically witjh MOST restorations we can't unless th original filmmakers were involved, or left detailed production notes, neither of these are very likely most of the time. It also reminds me a bit of the Disney Animation Dept and how relatively easy their restorations are with respect to color. One of the things that Walt instituted right from the very beginnings of his color animation was detailed information as to precisely what colors were used and how they were compiled. This gives a fine baseline to work from, THIS is the yellow in Snow Whites dress in this scene, makes life a good bit easier. These colors are used by contemporary animators should they find they have to do something with a Disney character such as Bambi II.

Sorry to digress and ruminate.

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Quoting Ace_of_Sevens:

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I have the Blu-ray. I hadn't seen the movie previously and wondered if it was supposed to look like that. I chalked it up to 1950s Technicolor. Apparently, this wasn't their fault.

According to Ned Price Vice President of Mastering, Warner Bros. Technical Operations 'quote':
People have to remember that Searchers is not a Technicolor three-strip film. This is 1956 single strip EK film, which had very poor color reproduction capability. Technicolor dye transfer release printing process salvaged quite a few of these early single-strip films by printing three-strip units from the EK and re-coloring them, so to speak.

Quoting Jubal:

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Like i said  I prefer the '06 DVD. But I will say this based on Beaver's review of the BD-version, it looks like it has some genuine promise.

One thing that I note with the Searchers is that on the three image sets we have three radically different versions of film in nearly every aspect of picture quality. The only reason I mention it, and I don't mean to digress or get into a controversial topic, it reminds me of the our own issues sometimes with images. I find the '06 DVD to be the best balanced color-wise of the three images. Howare we to know, typically witjh MOST restorations we can't unless th original filmmakers were involved, or left detailed production notes, neither of these are very likely most of the time. It also reminds me a bit of the Disney Animation Dept and how relatively easy their restorations are with respect to color. One of the things that Walt instituted right from the very beginnings of his color animation was detailed information as to precisely what colors were used and how they were compiled. This gives a fine baseline to work from, THIS is the yellow in Snow Whites dress in this scene, makes life a good bit easier. These colors are used by contemporary animators should they find they have to do something with a Disney character such as Bambi II.

Sorry to digress and ruminate.

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Interesting digression.  It also makes some of Disney's latest...ummm, reinterpretations for lack of a better word, of their classic cartoons even more difficult to understand.  The golden Peter Pan produced in this last go-around is particularly odd.

Quoting mdnitoil:

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Quoting Jubal:

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Like i said  I prefer the '06 DVD. But I will say this based on Beaver's review of the BD-version, it looks like it has some genuine promise.

One thing that I note with the Searchers is that on the three image sets we have three radically different versions of film in nearly every aspect of picture quality. The only reason I mention it, and I don't mean to digress or get into a controversial topic, it reminds me of the our own issues sometimes with images. I find the '06 DVD to be the best balanced color-wise of the three images. Howare we to know, typically witjh MOST restorations we can't unless th original filmmakers were involved, or left detailed production notes, neither of these are very likely most of the time. It also reminds me a bit of the Disney Animation Dept and how relatively easy their restorations are with respect to color. One of the things that Walt instituted right from the very beginnings of his color animation was detailed information as to precisely what colors were used and how they were compiled. This gives a fine baseline to work from, THIS is the yellow in Snow Whites dress in this scene, makes life a good bit easier. These colors are used by contemporary animators should they find they have to do something with a Disney character such as Bambi II.

Sorry to digress and ruminate.

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Interesting digression.  It also makes some of Disney's latest...ummm, reinterpretations for lack of a better word, of their classic cartoons even more difficult to understand.  The golden Peter Pan produced in this last go-around is particularly odd.

I agree, Walt has turned in his grave more than a few times over some of thiese "sequels"

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I'd forgotten about my old thread.. and I did buy the HD dvd disc ..  Thanks