While the whites appear a hint more neutral to me in V1, at least on my computer screen via VLC (will check in on the A95L later on), the noise distribution I find nicer on V2 as it masks the fuzziness and better takes away the “wax effect” caused by the filtering in the original. An interesting psychological effect that it appears sharper although there isn’t more detail (sharp [no pun intended] tongues might say that this is part of film material’s secret).
For the others, @19:02, look at the guy’s above:
https://ibb.co/YXwLZ5q
https://ibb.co/176Btz2
Update after checking the differences on the TV:
Interestingly, the color shift is way less apparent than on the PC with VLC. As for banding, I still have some in the V2 (especially in the underwater sequence at the beginning), but I suppose that this is already embedded in the 3D source.
About the HDTV open matte rip:
jakeandelwooduk was so kind to provide me the HDTV open matte rip (in 25 fps) and again, it is quite different from the 3D one. A lot more color saturation and the framing also seems to be slightly different (besides the lower bitrate and thus data reduction artefacts of course):