skyjedi2005 said:

The full uncut version has never been on DVD.  A number of years ago there was a bootleg floating around the internet but now impossible to find probably.  Since it was simply a cap of the vhs and not a very high quality one at that.  I think it was released as an Xvid.

I have this Xvid, if it can be of any help. It's 51:54. Here's some screenshots from VLC:

I actually have this version of Casino Royale in its entirety as I managed to purchase a copy of the Collector's Edition VHS. The only part missing is the last few seconds of the credits, which to my knowledge was never recovered.

I even copied it to my PC as well. I just haven't done anything with it since then (it's just sitting as an AVI file on my hard drive). I was going to make a DVD version of it but I kind of lost interest. If you guys are after it though, I can pick the job up again :P

Here are some screen caps from my VHS rip for those interested:

http://imgur.com/1v0bN

Cool, I'm certainly interested. It'd be even nicer to have a non-compressed/avi rip...

I'd be interested too...

STENDEC your rip looks great i'd love to see a DVD of that if you could

Just took one for the team - I bought one, so I'll let everybody know what quality it is and post some screenshots. :)

ww12345 said:

Just took one for the team - I bought one, so I'll let everybody know what quality it is and post some screenshots. :)

Great. Look forward to your observations.

OK, the Bluray arrived in the mail a few days ago (kind of a long time for shipping, but that's beside the point). It came in a decent case, with some screenshots and such on the back cover.

Looking at the disc content itself, it is pretty good. It is a telecine of a print (done the wrong way - you can see the tell-tale pulses in the brighter spots throughout the film) but overall the picture quality is better than the VHS preservation by a mile.

Here are some captures:

Casino Royale Captures

Does anybody know what the copyright status of this is? I'd be happy to share it if it is in public domain.

I didn't check on the soundtrack. How would be a good way of testing that?

I saw the "bug" - could that be removed?

Also, I hadn't thought about the pulses being burned into the kinescope. It looked like projector flicker, but I suppose it could have been kine-flicker. :) 

I'll check the audio codec later...

The copyright says 2012 Sky Chrome Media Inc. All Rights Reserved, but that means nothing. I could put that on copies of Harmy's DE, but that wouldn't give me copyright. What do you mean when you say it is hazy?

(sorry if that comes off snarky - it wasn't meant to be.) 

Does that Blu-ray have the complete ending?  To my knowledge the complete ending was extremely scratched up and it hasn't been seen on DVD or beyond.  If it does have the complete ending, I'd be interested in purchasing a copy.

I think you can find the full ending on youtube and see what I mean.

Yes, it has the full ending (to my knowledge.) The quality drops a bit, but not too much (as it is a kinoscope), so the quality is more or less consistent throughout.

What is the consensus on releasing this via tehparadox and the 'Spleen?

All right, I'll rip it and try to get a copy up at the 'Spleen later...