Info Wanted: Psycho - HDTV broadcast vs 50th anniversary Blu-ray (comparison)

Blu-ray grabs taken from The Hitchcock Zone:
http://hitchwiki.com/h/114fd

The HDTV broadcast is covered with grain and also has a slightly larger vertical image (compare the vertical cropping of the hotel room and office shots in the Blu-ray) and there is marked difference in monochrome tones between the two.

I know that despite what Hollywood execs and some websites would have us believe, many films are simply grainy by their nature because of the film stock that was used (Aliens, Predator) and were never meant to look over polished, glossy and pristine. With this in mind, which is a more accurate representation of the film, the smooth, softer looking Blu-ray or the grainy HDTV airing?

I’d be interested in your opinions.

Hmmm…

Psycho is definitely not what it should be at, like all other Uni held Hitchcock titles. It fares better due to a newer scan but has obviousbly been DNRd at some point. The UK blu has a higher bitrate and lossless original mono so that’s what I went for.

It should have more grain but the BD seems like a stronger presentation due to the lack of TV compression etc. I think the best thing would be to start from scratch with a 4K scan on all the Hitch titles and dump that HORRIBLE multichannel remix.

And it needs to be shown open matte as an alternate. Once seen this way you get what he was going for even more I think and like TOUCH OF EVIL, PSYCHO plays well in both 1.33 and 1.85 so it is unknown which was the intended framing.